Singers:
David Thomas
Peter Laughner
Craig Bell
Gene OConnor

Editor's info:

This album is more than just an artefact of a specific time and place. It offers a tantalizing glimpse at one of the greatest albums never recorded. Many fans of this arcane sub-chapter in the history of punk are convinced that had Rocket >From The Tombs survived long enough to record "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "Sonic Reducer" and "Final Solution" as well as lost classics like "Muckraker", "So Cold" and "Amphetamine", the resulting record would, today, be ranked alongside the MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" or The Stooges "Raw Power" as seminal albums of the punk era. This collection of demo and live material is the closest we can get.
Rocket From The Tombs debuted on 16th June 1974 at The Viking Salon, a rock club in downtown Cleveland. David Thomas had previously acquired a measure of local celebrity writing for Cleveland's The Scene magazine, under various aliases. The most prominent of these, the wonderfully named Crocus Behemoth, evolved into a full-fledged alter ego to front the new band. With a mound of wild hair, Behemoth earned himself a reputation as a crazed, completely unpredictable stage performer, which in the early days of the group consisted of wrapping his considerable girth in aluminium foil, wearing Kiss-style makeup, and spray-painting his hair. Their first set consisted of nearly all the Kick Out The Jams album, plus an early version of "What Love Is". The classic RFTT line-up (Peter Laugner, Behemoth, Gene O�Conner - later Cheetah Chrome - and Johnny Madansky - later Johnny Blitz) lasted less than eight months. Founder members Laughner and Behemoth eventually morphed into Pere Ubu whilst Cheetah Chrome and Johnny Blitz went on to form The Dead Boys with Stiv Bators, who had previously tried as lead singer for RFTT. The recordings offered here are sharp and acerbic, a worm's-eye view of an entropic Cleveland, an urban area that was then a dying industrial city. Songs like "Life Stinks"and "Thirty Seconds Over .......
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Info dystrybutora:

Archiwalne, kompletne nagrania z 1975 roku zespołu, który potem przekształcił się w Pere Ubu i The Dead Boys. Płyta zawiera 9 utworów studyjnych (nigdy nie publikowanych) oraz 10 numerów koncertowych. Brudne, punkowe wręcz wcielenie Davida Thomasa, zawiera min. covery The Stooges, niezwykła wersję "Satisfaction" oraz pierwotne wersje "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "Final Solution" i "Life Stinks". Kawał historii teraz odgrzebany i zremasterowany przez samego Thomasa.


Info wydawcy:

This album is more than just an artefact of a specific time and place. It offers a tantalizing glimpse at one of the greatest albums never recorded. Many fans of this arcane sub-chapter in the history of punk are convinced that had Rocket >From The Tombs survived long enough to record "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "Sonic Reducer" and "Final Solution" as well as lost classics like "Muckraker", "So Cold" and "Amphetamine", the resulting record would, today, be ranked alongside the MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" or The Stooges "Raw Power" as seminal albums of the punk era. This collection of demo and live material is the closest we can get.
Rocket From The Tombs debuted on 16th June 1974 at The Viking Salon, a rock club in downtown Cleveland. David Thomas had previously acquired a measure of local celebrity writing for Cleveland's The Scene magazine, under various aliases. The most prominent of these, the wonderfully named Crocus Behemoth, evolved into a full-fledged alter ego to front the new band. With a mound of wild hair, Behemoth earned himself a reputation as a crazed, completely unpredictable stage performer, which in the early days of the group consisted of wrapping his considerable girth in aluminium foil, wearing Kiss-style makeup, and spray-painting his hair. Their first set consisted of nearly all the Kick Out The Jams album, plus an early version of "What Love Is". The classic RFTT line-up (Peter Laugner, Behemoth, Ge.......
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