Marty Thau's 2 x 5 album will be issued on cd for the first time by Sanctuary Records on May 10th. The album includes 2 cuts by The Fleshtones (Shadowline & F-F-Fascination) as well as (Brian Setzer's pre-Stray Cats) Bloodless Pharoahs, The Comateens, Student Teachers and The Revelons. This was a kind of old NY meets the emerging post punk NY and actually sounds a little now. Bearing in mind that now ain't exactly then. This historic document was produced by Jimmy Destri for Red Star but came out on Criminal Records in 1980. (Not Criminal Damage as dimwitedly/memory lapsedly reported earlier...)
Los Coyotes are heading for The Dirty Water Club in London, The night before their tag match with Southern Culture in Newcastle...
2 comments:
I agree - this record DOES sound very now, whatever that means. Especially The Student Teachers:
http://www.thestudentteachers.com/
Btw I don't think 2x5 ever came out in the UK. I have a Criminal white label promo copy, but have never seen a UK issue of the proper album.
Seems like there was also a Criminal promo 7" of the 2 Comateens tracks...
I guess "now" means post Franz or something.
It did come out here on Max Hole's Criminal imprint. Also, there was a Fleshtones single which I've only ever seen a picture of.
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