THE GR'UPS - SELF-TITLED 7 INCH EP, 1992 IMMATURE RECORDS/ZAFIO RECORDS

 THE GR'UPS 

SELF-TITLED 7 INCH EP 
1992 IMMATURE RECORDS / ZAFIO RECORDS 
IR-001 / Z-1 

BEFORE BLATZ AND THE CRIMINALS, THERE WERE THE GR'UPS.  FEATURING DUALING VOCALS FROM FUTURE BLATZ MEMEBERS JESSE LUSCIOUS AND ANNA JOY, THEY PLAYED A BLEND OF GARAGE PUNK AND ROCKABILLY, AND HAD A TOTAL OF FOUR RELEASES (INCLUDING THIS ONE, WHICH WAS MOST LIKELY THE SECOND RELEASE, FOLLOWING A SINGLE-SIDED CASSETTE, BOTH RELEASED IN 1992).  IT SEEMS THEY WERE ONLY ACTIVE FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS, UNTIL THE FORMATION OF BLATZ, AND LATER THE CRIMINALS, IN THE MID-1990'S.  EVENTUALLY THE GR'UPS REUNITED AROUND 2011 AND RELEASED A COMPILATION LP AND PLAYED A FEW SHOWS TO PROMOTE THE RECORD.  

THIS EP WAS RECORDED JUNE 13, 1992 BY KEVIN ARMY, BILL, AND LINT AT SOUND VISION, MIXED BY THE GR'UPS WITH KEVIN ARMY JUNE 19, 1992 AT DANCING DOG, AND MASTERED BY KEN LEE AT SONIC ARTS.  THE LINE UP CONSISTED OF JESSE LUSCIOUS AND ANNA JOY ON VOCALS,  DEB DISASTER (QUEEN MAB) ON BASS, MATT FREEMAN (RANCID, M.D.C.) ON GUITAR, AND KAMALA LYN PARKS (CRINGER, NAKED AGGRESSION) ON DRUMS.  THE TRACKS FROM THIS EP WERE LATER USED AS THE FIRST FIVE TRACKS ON THE 2011 COMPILATION LP, "A LI'L LOST."  THE LYRICS TO THE SONG, "OINK," WERE COWRITTEN BY JESSE LUSCIOUS AND ANNIE LALANIA FROM BLATZ.  

TRACKLIST: 

1. ALMOND TREE 

2. ROCKABILLY SONG 

3. OINK 

4. RED RIDING HOOD 

5. YER A JOB 

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GROOVIE GHOULIES - APPETITE FOR ADRENOCHROME, 1989

 GROOVIE GHOULIES 

APPETITE FOR ADRENOCHROME 
1989 LP - CRIMSON CORPSE RECORDS 
1996 LOOKOUT! RECORDS LK-148 

GROOVIE GHOULIES FORMED IN SACRAMENTO AND PLAYED MONSTER/HORROR-THEMED POP PUNK.  THEIR SOUND WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY 1950'S ROCK AND ROLL, 1960'S SURF AND GARAGE ROCK, ALONG WITH 1970'S AND 1980'S PUNK ROCK (RAMONES, MISFITS, ETC.)  OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR EXISTENCE THEY'VE HAD AROUND TWENTY MEMBERS, WITH JEFF "KEPI" ALEXANDER BEING THE CONSISTENT MEMBER AND PRIMARY SONGWRITER.  AT CERTAIN POINTS THEY HAD DAN PANIC OF SCREECHING WEASEL AND THE RIVERDALS ON DRUMS, AS WELL AS DAN REYNOSO OF THE SACRAMENTO BAND, THE SECRETIONS.  THE ORIGINAL LINE UP WAS KEPI ON VOCALS, JOHN "RUDGE" RUDGERS ON GUITAR, GEOLYN CARVIN ON GUITAR AND BACKING VOCALS, JOHN "VETTY" VETTER ON BASS, AND JOHN PHILIP SOSA ON DRUMS.  THE GHOULIES' DEBUT "APPETITE FOR ADRENOCHROME" HAD THIS SAME LINE UP, MINUS GEOLYN CARVIN.  IT WAS RELEASED IN 1989 ON CRIMSON CORPSE RECORDS (CRIMSON CORPSE 2002), AND RE-RELEASED IN 1996 ON LOOKOUT! RECORDS (LK-148).  THE RECORD FEATURES TEN ORIGINALS AND FOUR COVERS - "DON'T GO OUT" BY HERMAN'S HERMITS, "2000 MAN" BY THE ROLLING STONES, "KING KONG STOMP" (LISTED AS SIMPLY "KING KONG") BY GENE MOSS AND FRED RICE (FROM "DRACULA'S GREATEST HITS"), AND "LOOKOUT, HERE COMES TOMORROW," (LISTED AS "LOOKOUT!") BY THE MONKEES.  AT ONE POINT, KEPI ENLISTED HIS WIFE ROCHELLE "ROACH" SPARMAN ON GUITAR AND BACKING VOCALS.  SHE WOULD REMAIN IN THE BAND UP UNTIL THE FINAL LINE UP.  IN MAY OF 2009 THE GROOVIE GHOULIES BROKE UP, FOLLOWING THE DIVORCE OF KEPI AND ROACH, JUST PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF THEIR NINTH AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM, "99 LIVES."  THE SPLIT WAS DUE TO DIFFICULTIES OF CARRYING ON AS A BAND FOLLOWING KEPI AND ROACH'S DIVORCE.  THIS RECORD WAS PURCHASED FOR AROUND TEN DOLLARS (U.S.) AT A SWAP MEET.  IT IS THE 1996 LOOKOUT! REISSUE, ON PINK SWIRL MARBLE VINYL.  IT COULD BE CONSIDERED A CLASSIC, AND WAS A PRECURSOR TO THE POP-PUNK MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA IN THE 1990'S.  MP3S RIPPED FROM THE VINYL.  INFO INFO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

TRACKLIST: 

1. LOST GENERATION 

2. DO THE BAT 

3. ARMAGEDDON 2000 

4. 2000 MAN 

5. MY COMPUTER SAID "KILL" 

6. KING KONG STOMP 

7. NO BLOOD 

8. DON'T GO OUT 

9. THE BLOB 

10. DEAD END 

11. BLOOD BEACH 

12. LOOKOUT! (HERE COMES TOMORROW) 

13. GHOUL CHANT 

14. BETH 

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GROOVIE GHOULIES - APPETITE FOR ADRENOCHROME 1989