Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Swamp Rats - Disco Still Sucks


Άλλο ένα πασίγνωστο πλέον δισκάκι στο νετ, από αυτά τα παλικάρια που έβγαλαν την ΚΟΜΜΑΤΑΡΑ I’m Going Home, όταν εμείς μαρίδα στη γειτονιά παίζαμε ακόμα καπιτόλι (το θυμάτε κανείς?...αυτό με τις πέντε λακκούβες και τις γκαζές) ή μπαζ (εκείνο με τις όρθιες πετρούλες που σημαδεύαμε με τη δική μας πέτρα) για να κερδίσουμε κανένα μικι μαους. Μου αρέσει ο σαματάς στο Hey Joe, η διασκευή στο It’s Not Easy αλλά και πολλά άλλα. Όχι το Psycho δεν το ξέχασα.

Personnel incl:
BOB HOCKO vcls A B
DICK NEWTON gtr A B
DENNY NICHOLSON bs A
DAVE GANNON drms B
PAUL SHALAKO bs B
DON SHRINER gtr B
GREG DETTORE drms

ALBUM:
1 DISCO SUCKS (Keystone K111541-3A) 1979

45s:
1 Louie Louie/Hey Joe (St Clair MF 69) 1966
2 Psycho/Here There And Everywhere (St Clair 2222) 1966
3 Two Tymes Two/Mr. Sad (St Claire 3333) 1966
4 No Friend Of Mine/It's Not Easy (St Clair 711-711) 1966
5 In The Midnight Hour/It's Not Easy (Co and Ce 245) 1967
6 Brown Sugar/Brown Sugar (Segue 107) 1972

Originally known as The Fantastic Dee Jays, (lineup 'A'), this was Pittsburgh's top punk band. They specialised in doing really wild covers of some of the classic songs of the era. Most of their finest moments can be heard on Eva's Swamp Rats vs. Unrelated Segments (LP) album which includes their covers of Louie Louie, Hey Joe, Psycho, No Friend Of Mine, It's Not Easy, In The Midnight Hour, Here There And Everywhere and a previously unreleased version of Til The End Of The Day.
A picture of the classic line-up 'B' circa 1966 can be seen in Crypt's Back From The Grave Vol. 1 - the on-stage shot was taken at manager Terry Lee's "Night Train" club in Elizabeth, P.A.
By the early seventies only Bob Hocko would be left and they became Galactus, whose LP was a lacklustre trudge through Stones' covers and beer-hall rock fayre.
In 1979 Bob Hocko put out the Disco Sucks LP which has one side of 1966-7 tracks (six of 'em) and one side of five 1970s tracks (three 'Stones covers, one Kinks and one original).

Tracks
1. Louie Louie2. Hey Freak3. She's Got Everything4. I'm Going Home5. Hey Joe6. It's Not Easy7. No Friend of Mine8. Till the End of the Day9. In the Midnight Hour10. Here, There and Everywhere11. Tobacco Road12. Psycho
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Φίλε Σπανιόλε μη μασας.
Συνέχισε έτσι απτόητος να μας χαρίζεις ωραίες μουσικές.
Σ ευχαριστώ

Anonymous said...

Just an FYI.. Its a bootleg.. The mananger of the band never gave the rights to get hip...