VERSUS – featuring The Lewd’s Olga De Volga, and who only put out recorded material as VS. – in an early flyer, live in San Francisco, likely from 1979.
“Prototypes of the Future Female Race”
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Dynamite Hemorrhage #66 back in the saddle with a wide-ranging show of sub-underground gakk, puh and twaddle.
You’ll hear new stuff from many of your current faves like THE STACHES, SOPHIE COOPER, BLACK ABBA, PUMICE, OCTAGRAPE, W-X and many, many more.
You’ll also hear rare and barely-tolerated library material from the likes of DICKLESS (pictured here, at their first show in ‘89 – “lucky me”, I was there), SACCHARINE TRUST, SMOG, THE GUN CLUB, SUGARSHOCK, WOODEN SHJIPS and more.
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Track listing:
THE STACHES – Crocodile
W-X – Clean It Glen
ART MUSEUMS – S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G
CHARLES HOWL – I Love You 47
NUMBERS – I Transfer
SUGARSHOCK – I Hate The Kids
BLACK ABBA – Put It In The Mail
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS – Confusion
DICKLESS – Sweet Teeth
SACCHARINE TRUST – We Don’t Need Freedom
VEGETABLE – Castration Frustration
THE VICTIMS – High School Girls
MANSION – The Third
OCTAGRAPE – Seizures
GUN CLUB – Devil In The Woods (1981 demo)
WOODEN SHJIPS – Shrinking Moon For You
PUMICE – Why I Chew My Sleeves
SMOG – Floating
SOPHIE COOPER – Klias Wetlands
SIBYLLE BAIER – Forgett
WEYES BLOOD – Names of Stars
MARS – 3E (live)
SCREAMERS flyer and small fanzine piece – 1979.
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Just a reminder in case you missed it…..new show coming this week….
Because living is better than dying – because a sheepish return with head between legs is better than no return at all – it’s Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #65. First show in two months. We can’t help ourselves.
The
fruits of my return from exile are hopefully soon to be apparent. Just
press play, or download, and you’ll hear new stuff from MANSION, SEX TIDE, BLACK ABBA, MARADEUR, HONEY RADAR and more – plus new reissues from MARS, VINCENT OVER THE SINK, DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS – and a show-stopping three-song set from some of today’s finest young pickers, including ANDY McLEOD, JOHNNY YOUNG and Mr. DANIEL BACHMAN.
So indulge yourself, why don’t ya?
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Track listing:
MANSION – Fleshed Out
BLACK ABBA – Lost Dog
PAPER TULIPS – Sanitation
MARAUDEUR – Bad Morning
SUBURBAN HOMES – Conformity in the UK
SEX TIDE – Cleveland Avenue
MARS – Cry
VINCENT OVER THE SINK – Mice in the Ocean
RUTH GARBUS – Kisserine Chalk
DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS – Monkeys and Organ Grinders
OLIMPIA SPLENDID – KL
HONEY RADAR – Milk Maid
SURVEILLANCE – Death
BATSWING SALOON – Harold and Maude
VERONICA FALLS – Timeless Melody
JOHNNY YOUNG – Going to Pleasant Valley
DANIEL BACHMAN – Orange County Serenade
ANDY McLEOD – Down Darby Creek
March 1979 at The Deaf Club, San Francisco. Easy to imagine going to at least ten of these gigs.
The NY underground invades San Francisco and Target Video – December 1979.
I made a compilation for you over on 8Tracks called Authority Complex: Dynamite Hemorrhage’s Best of 2015 by DynamiteHemorrhage.
It stays in the vein that the podcast has mostly mined: raw, sub-underground rock music of a lo-fidelity or otherwise challenged bent. 18 tracks, all available to stream right now over here.
Track listing:
THE COOLIES – Scorpio 10
HONEY RADAR – Niacin Man
CCTV – Paranoia
LITHICS – Lizard
RAW PONY – Bo Diddley
RAYS – Model or You?
MANSION – Fleshed Out
CALAMARI GIRLS – All The Celbrities
BENT – Skeleton Man
LIME CRUSH – Graveyard
CONSTANT MONGREL – The Law
URANIUM CLUB – The Collector
WET BLANKETS – No Carrots
ERASE ERRATA – History of Handclaps
PSYCHIC SOVIETS – Authority Complex
POLIO CLUB – Light as a Feather
PARKAY QUARTS – Pretty Machines
DANCE ASTHMATICS – Liquid Lunch
Even though I was a bit of a “new waver” in the early 80s with a serious Siouxie & The Banshees, Bauhaus & Simple Minds addiction, I also tuned in every Tuesday night at 8pm to the early Maximum RocknRoll radio show on KPFA, whose signal we could barely pick up at my house in San Jose. It’s where I learned about hardcore, early LA punk, and all sorts of bizarre leftist political agitprop for the very first time.
For those who hadn’t picked up on it, it’s also where the whole “And now stay tuned for Jay and the gang” ripoff intro that I do on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio came from. Here’s a flyer I scanned yesterday from the Prelinger Library announcing the debut of their radio show, which I think came on for the first time in 1981.
I visited the Prelinger Library in San Francisco today. It’s a vast archival collection of printed ephemera comprising subcultures, political movements, maps, landscapes, histories and so much more. I’ve lived in San Francisco 26 years and didn’t know this was here for the past 11+. Thank you Public Collectors for letting me know about this treasure trove that’s mere walking distance from my place of employment.
Naturally I spent my time with my nose buried in the late 70s/early 80s punk flyers & fanzines. I scanned a bunch that you’ll see in coming days here, including this one – Noh Mercy/Pink Section/Peccadillos at The Mab, San Francisco, likely 1979.
I wrote this frothing review back on July 6th, 2006 on my Agony Shorthand blog….
WOODEN SHJIPS : “SHRINKING MOON FOR YOU” 10”EP……
Intense, layered, guitar acid-wash motorbike rock from a San Francisco act who, with one record, are now one of my favorite bands on the planet circa 2006. Imagine an ear-blowing cross between SUICIDE, “White Light/White Heat” VELVET UNDERGROUND, the guy that did that “Get Stoned Ezy With The Afflicted Man” record and some nut with a tape loop machine, and you’ve gotWOODEN SHJIPS on this wide-grooved psychedelic head trip.
The first side is the monster title track, which sounds like an army of bikers with guitars gone completely haywire on mushrooms & ready to mow down every pusillanimous punker in their path. They carry this on for many, many a minute, but no matter how long it is it’s just not long enough – the needle’s going right back where it started. W-o-w. This is truly one for the out-there “heads” and the “garage punks” to sit down together and break bread over.
“Death’s Not Your Friend” is the ghostly Suicide-ish one and is just as great, sounding just like they got Eno to guest star on keyboards for the soundtrack to some modern vampire flick; “Space Clothes” is a bunch of bizarre looping, backwards shit & test-pattern guitar, and it’s totally eerie and mean. When your pals tell you there’s no good new bands poppin’ up in 2006, you need to grab them by their fine Dacron ensembles and force-feed them this gargantuan EP. Time to hit the hustings and learn more about WOODEN SHJIPS and ask why they’re literally giving it away when this should be $100 on eBay right now (!).
AGONY SHORTHAND 