The Gizmos – The Gizmos: Raw ’76/’77 (Tape)

Description

Cassette Tape / Archival Compilation

Ltd Edition — 204 Copies !

1976/77-US

Format: Cassette Tape

#Ref: GULCH 905

Release date: 2022

Release notes

Hey music fans, it’s the first ever cassette release by the original 1976/77 Gizmos! Side 1 features material originally released on CDR as RAW FIRST TAKES by Slippy Town in 2004. That barely circulated disc contained the previously unreleased first takes of six 1977 Gizmos songs: “Kiss Of The Rat,” “Human Garbage Disposal,” “Cave Woman,” “Hey Beat Mon!,” “Gizmos World Tour,” and “Amerika First.” There’s also a short outtake of a spoken intro from Ted Niemiec. Plus “Muff Divin’ (In Willkie South)” and “Mean Screen” recorded at a drunken teenage party a year before in 1976.

Brand new to this Gulcher tape are six songs recorded in 1976. Listen as northern Indiana hard-rock teen band Cerberus meets Ken Highland and Eddie Flowers in Bob Richert’s Bloomington kitchen for the very first Gizmos rehearsal/jam. They stumble through covers of “Ramblin’ Rose” (MC5), “Raw Power” (Stooges), “Deuce” (Kiss), “Little Queenie” (Chuck Berry), and a weird medley of Black Sabbath and Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour.” Plus an unreleased, barely remembered original called “Screw The Screw.” It was nearly forgotten because as Krazee Ken explains: “The Cerberus guys were trying to screw in maybe a fuzzbox; made up the song on the spot.”

The 1976/77 Gizmos: Ken Highland, Eddie Flowers, Ted Niemiec, Rich Coffee, Dave Sulak, Rick Czajka, Jim DeVries, Davey Medlock, Don Jaskulske. Plus Rich Stim from MX-80 Sound plays sax on “Hey Beat Mon!” Come on, all you Gizmos fans! –Eddie Flowers (2022).

” A tape of demos and live tracks by these legendary Indiana proto-punks, who’ve had more afterlife than they did actual life. There’s early versions of future GIZMOS classics like “Human Garbage Disposal” and “Kiss of the Rat” and others that would be heard on later releases. They’ve included a live recording of the band stumbling joyfully out-of-tune through their obnoxious ode to oral, “Muff Divin,” at a drunken house party. Also included is a previously unreleased recording of the first jam session the group had together (in the kitchen of Gulcher’s Bob Richart), being true rock’n’roll nerds as they laugh their way through covers of KISS, the STOOGES, and “Rambling Rose” by the MC5 (with the Brother JC Crawford “Are You Ready to Testify?” intro intact, natch). It’s these recordings that make this a compelling reissue, giving it personality and a story, which is so much more interesting than upholding obscurity for obscurity’s sake. This is a Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes type of recording that will give all GIZMOS completists out there some real Hoosier hysteria. ” – Maximumrocknroll

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