Black Randy And The Metro Squad
Pass The Dust... I Think I'm Bowie
For Fans of: Dangerhouse Records, FRANK ZAPPA, JAMES CHANCE, THE DILS, THE RANDOMS, THE EYES.
Pass the Dust I Think Im Bowie was the only full-length wax put out on the short-lived but highly influential
Dangerhouse Records in late 79 and its full of short, sharp funky revue style tunes with some avant touches here and
there, with BLACK RANDY reminiscent of a punk rock DAVID PEEL. Numbers about
sleeping in arcades, Idi Amin, narcs, laundrymats and sperm banks plus anything else to do with the messed -up life he
was living- needles and too much alcohol. This great version of "Shaft" has to be heard to get a full understanding of
the workings of RANDYs thought patterns. Dig the budget organ sound that fits right in with the overall sleazy grooves
that his METRO SQUAD is laying down (it was made up of the cream of LA punks on sabbatical from their own combos such as
the EYES or RANDOMS) all played with a tight but loose abandon. (BLACK RANDY & THE METRO SQUAD appeared in 1981
satirical punk rock film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, performing "I Slept in an Arcade".) BLACK RANDY is
one of the lost voices of the punk revolution, though by no means is he any way near a punk in the accepted commercial
sense. BLACK RANDY (John Morris) died on November 11th, 1988. He still has no peers, amen to that.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
15-04-2016
Label
Item-nr
486917
EAN
0018663108513
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
I SLEPT IN AN ARCADE
2
MARLON BRANDO
3
I TELL LIES EVERY DAY
4
DOWN AT THE LAUDRYMAT
5
I WANNA BE A NARK
6
GIVE IT UP OR TURN IT A LOOSE
7
IDI AMIN
8
SPERM BANK BABY
9
BAREFOOTIN ON THE WICKET PICKET
10
SAN FRANCISCO
11
TELLING LIES
12
(SAY IT LOUD) IM BLACK AND IM PROUD
13
(THEME FROM) SHAFT