The Screamers, The Thread

xp sleeve, the musician whose fb complaint about Stranded that kicked off Flyergate recently moved to Oregon ... probably somewhere near you i think?

and to be super ilx-y here -- the friend who did the Screamers remaster (just a thing he shared w/friends) was the dude through whom I met ilxor Chaki at the Throbbing Gristle reunion show!

Cool

In the late '70s, Screamers were one of the leaders of the L.A. punk scene—but they never released any recorded music. So they became a myth.

A new archival 12" changes all that. For the @nytimes, I wrote about the band stepping into the light: https://t.co/E75jYlMBlr

— Nate Rogers (@Nate_Rgrs) April 14, 2021

Interesting article. 12 “ record out Friday April 16. Saw on twitter someone say they saw Screamers in NYC way back when. I had always thought they just did Cali gigs. I guess not

https://nodogsinspace.libsyn.com/the-screamers-pt-i

The latest episode of Pleasant Gehman's podcast "The Devil's Music" is an interview with Fayette Hauser, the "Cockette" with whom Tomata du Plenty moved to NYC and performed with there circa '72-'74. Some discussion of the Screamers in that.

There's a great interview with Paul Roessl on the Mojack pod.
https://soundcloud.com/mojackpod/154-pat-ruthensmear-ruthensmear-w-paul-roessler
Note that on every episode of that show you need to skip ahead about twenty minutes to get to the interviews. Oh it's also all about the Pat Smear solo album, too, and there is not much mention of the Screamers.

I like No Dogs in Space, but I wonder why they insist that Suicide made just two albums?

holy shit, these are a revelation

WAY more Eno in this (new to me) take of "Punish Or Be Damned" than I ever noticed before

I ordered this thing, is it ever coming out?

mine came today, I'm close to Oakland relatively. it does seem late.

got it!

this ruuuuuuuuuules