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The great Tim Sommer once played a tape of Cleveland quintet Frankenstein (who would later become the Dead Boys) on his WNYU "Noise the Show" punk radio show in 1981. It was three fascinating songs they recorded two years later when the same five members moved to New York for the first Dead Boys' LP, Young Loud and Snotty. It was super raw, supremely garagey, and great. I always wondered if I would ever hear it again. Years later, it's a great little artifact, with liner notes from Dead Boys' bassist, Jeff Magnum. This live-to-two-track document, recorded in the loft of the legendary Rocket From the Tombs, the pre-Pere Ubu group they also had roots in, and remixed for release, is slightly submerged, but the performance is delightfully dirty and the playing crackles like a big, burning log. Best of all, since these versions of "Sonic Reducer," "High Tension Wire," and "Down in Flames" weren't altered after the group moved to New York and got into the brand-new, thriving punk scene, this wild, wild, wild sound proves they were not bandwagon-jumpers. Instead, like Pere Ubu, they were true mid-'70s "bad old days" pre-punk rock revolutionaries, the genuine heirs to MC5, Stooges, and tough '60s garage. This is how a rock band is supposed to play -- with nose in the dirt and riffs in the clouds, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde -- but rarely does in bogus "alterna" times. ~ Jack Rabid, Rovi Related Torrents
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