I still can't understand why someone hasn't unearthed and re-issued this shit, because these recordings and the Roadtrip tape are absolutely worthy of credit that they don't seem to have ever received. Fancy? Nah, not really. Ripping and sometimes unhinged '80s California hardcore? Definitely. Check "Getting Away" from the demo - wild early SUICIDAL vibes with 7 SECONDS caliber hooks, and the rest of the session is right there too. "Summer Poison" deserves to be comped at least - absolute unappreciated classic.
The rehearsal session from 1987 is understandably more raw, but listen to fukkn "12 Pack Syndrome" and the almost-but-not-quite drums fills. Twenty two slammers (including a few doubles) between the demo and the rehearsal, and all of it deserves to be blasted. This is likely from the collection of Noise Addiction (like any of the live posts at Escape Is Terminal)...so let's just take a minute to appreciate the work the people who came before us put in. Blast "Don't Blink" all day.
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Yep, that was from my collection. P.K.G. stands for Poor Kids On Glue. The guitarist and songwriter was Allen "Po" Hayden. They played shows around Los Angeles and I think they also did a little tour out to Tuscon and Phoenix once. Those five tracks are the only ones they recorded and I think they were recorded at their rehearsal space on a 4-track. Three of those songs I used on a compilation tape which Mr. Hayden also did the artwork for:
https://www.discogs.com/release/11743672-Various-Pass-The-Elixer
That Roadkill tape must be from 1987 because Allan had another band called Vertigo in 1987-1988. There are some Vertigo tapes around.
And, before the Pandemic he was playing in the band Lady Hump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFDXuMSaD8 who have a CD out.
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