The Gizmos – 1976/1977 (Vinyl LP)
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Description
Vinyl LP – Compilation – Reissue / Repress
Red vinyl
Contains previously released E.P.s from the original Gizmos lineup.
Tracks A1-A4 originally released on The Gizmos EP (1976). Recorded March 20, 1976.
Tracks A5-B4 originally released on Amerika First EP (1977). Recorded April 6-8, 1977.
Tracks B5-B8 originally released on Gizmos World Tour EP (1978). Recorded April 6-8, 1977.
Track B9 previously unreleased. Recorded April 6, 1977
Original 1976/1977 recordings engineered at Home Grown Studios, Bloomington, Indiana.
EP masters enhanced at Gilfoy Sound Studio.
Remastered 2024 and Red vinyl edition!
Includes linear notes with band history on back cover.
1976/77-US
Format: Vinyl LP
#Ref: VULCHER 0002
Release date: 2024
Release notes
For the first time available on vinyl (after the original limited singles pressings of 1976/1977) the legendary first 3 EP’s by the seminal Indiana punkers!!!
The Gizmos were one of the best seventies band! Their singles are now very collectable and very hard to find! This album also includes an unreleased track, cool artwork with great pix and notes by Eddie Flowers! ESSENTIAL STUFF!!!
” Well, you see, there’s proto-punk–and then there’s the Gizmos! Real teenagers from the middle of Amerika, the eight misfits who made up this group of fanzine writers, rock cultists, and heavy-metal dudes conjured their own peculiar magic out of the just-barely pre-Ramones rock underground. Led by Ken Highland and based in the sleepy college town of Bloomington, Indiana, the group included Eddie Flowers (Crawlspace), Rich Coffee, and Ted Niemiec among its ranks. They recorded three EPs in early ’76 and ’77, including classics like “Muff Divin’,” “Mean Screen,” “That’s Cool (I Respect You More),” “Human Garbage Disposal,” “Kiss of the Rat,” “We’re Gonna Rumble” and nine more, plus a never-released Johnny Cougar cover! Here it is, music fans: punktitude and stoopidity before it got self-conscious, self-important, and turned into “punk-rock.”
Tracklisting
SIDE A
1 Muff Divin’ (In Willkie South)
2 That’s Cool (I Respect You More)
3 Mean Screen
4 Chicken Queen (The [Ass] End)
5 Amerika First
6 Human Garbage Disposal
7 Ballad Of The Gizmos
SIDE B
1 Kiss Of The Rat
2 Pumpin’ To Playboy
3 Cave Woman
4 (I’m Just A) Regular Dude
5 Gizmos World Tour
6 We’re Gonna Rumble
7 Gimme Back My Foreskin
8 Hey Beat Mon!
9 Boring, Part 1 [Take 2]
