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Screamers - 1/6/1978 - Whiskey a Go Go, Hollywood [Sep. 29th, 2007|01:14 pm]
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[abe_lincoln666]
Hey, can somebody delete the misfired post below this one? For some reason I can't delete it myself



Here's a nice, crisp audience recording of a Screamers show at the Whiskey a Go Go in 1978. The Screamers were one of the central bands that gave birth to the punk scene in LA in 1977, and did numerous shows during that period, but they never released an album while they were still in operation, and the only commercial release of their material was a post humous, mid-90s compilation that is now long out of print.

Although the Screamers are probably most famous for their Gary Panter-designed, screaming-head logo (which you used to see everywhere in the punk community, on everything from shirts to skateboards), but their music was quite a treat too; the Screamers played keyboard driven punk, that could range from slow and gloomy to ranting and psychotic, and their charismatic, outrageous frontman, Tomata Du Plenty, never failed to leave an audience stupified.

Here's the MP3s:

http://rapidshare.com/files/59144884/screamers-780106-whiskey-mp3.zip

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... and here's the info from the original torrent:

The Screamers
01/06/78
Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA

AUD > ? > cdr > EAC Secure > FLAC Frontend (8) > flac
39:55 minutes

10 Vertigo
11 The Beat Goes On
12 Magazine Love
13 Don't Pay the Whore
14 I Wanna Hurt
15 Peer Pressure
16 Anything
17 Punish or Be Damned
18 It's a Violent World

>> encore

19 I'm Going Steady with Twiggy

Tomata Du Plenty, vocals,
Tommy Gear (formerly Melba Toast), ARP Odyssey
Jeff McGregor, keyboards
KK Barrett, drums.

January the 5th through the 7th The Screamers play the Whiskey in Los
Angeles. Tomata opens the show by ripping through a 50-foot-wide wall
of black plastic.
Also on the bill were the Rubber City Rebels and Baby Blue.



Tomata Du Plenty Memorial Page:

http://www.theoretical.com/tomataobit.html
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Comments:
[User Picture]From: [info]vanilla_blue
2007-09-30 02:45 pm (UTC)

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It's deleted now.
[User Picture]From: [info]abe_lincoln666
2007-09-30 03:50 pm (UTC)

Thanks Sarah ...

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I guess I shouldn't be posting stuff after I've had a beer or two; I've deleted misfired posts before, but yesterday I couldn't figure it out for some reason.
[User Picture]From: [info]terry_terrible
2007-10-05 04:33 am (UTC)

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Another unknown L.A. band that was pretty funky was Nervous Gender. Fanscinating shit.