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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RICE - FUCK YOU, THIS IS RICE!!! LOOKOUT! RECORDS, 1994

 RICE 

FUCK YOU, THIS IS RICE!!! 
LOOUKOUT RECORDS, 1994 - LK093CD 

FROM PUNK-USA.TYPEPAD.COM: "LK 93 (LOOKOUT! 93) WAS FULL LENGTH RELEASE FROM A BAND THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN INACTIVE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, YET HAD MADE AN IMPRESSION ON CHRIS APPELGREN DURING HIS RUN INS WITH THE STRANGELY GIMMICKED SAN DIEGO GUYS OVER THE YEARS.  THE BAND WAS 'RICE' - A BAND INFLUENCED FROM THE POSITIVE HARDCORE BANDS OF THE LATE 80'S, BUT WITH A HEAVY DOSE OF OFF THE WALL PUNK HUMOR."

FROM ALLMUSIC.COM (BIO BY STEVE HUEY): "THE SAN DIEGO-BASED HARDCORE BAND RICE WAS A GOOFY SATIRE OF ANARCHIST PUNK THAT REMAINED STARTLINGLY TRUE TO THE BAND'S NAME.  THEIR LYRICS HAD ALL THE MILITANT SLOGANEERING AND IMPASSIONED RHETORIC OF STANDARD-ISSUE POLITICAL HARDCORE, BUT INSTEAD OF FREEDOM, EVERY SONG THEY WROTE WAS ABOUT... RICE.  MUSICALLY, RICE'S HORN SECTION MADE THEM ROUGHLY COMPARABLE TO THE SOUL-INFLICTED NATION OF ULYSSES, OR TO TRASH-PUNKERS ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, WITH WHOM RICE SHARED PERSONNEL.  RICE'S LINE UP FEATURED LEAD SINGER ROB VASQUEZ (ALSO OF THE PEECHEES, THE LEFTIES, THE CREEPS, AND SEMIAUTOMATIC), GUITARIST JASON SOARES (ALSO OF PHYSICS, THINGY, AND ASPECTS OF PHYSICS), BASSIST CARLOS CANEDO, (PEECHEES, BEEHIVE & THE BARRACUDAS), DRUMMER MATT ANDERSON (THE HEAD OF LOCAL INDIE GRAVITY RECORDS), TROMBONIST DUSTIN MILSAP (BEEHIVE & THE BARRACUDAS), AND SAXAPHONIST APOLLO 9 (ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT).  THERE WERE ALSO AUXILLARY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SEVERAL OTHERS, INCLUDING DRUMMER CHARLES CLAYTON AND ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT HORNMAN JC 2000.  FORMED IN 1991, RICE ISSUED THEIR DEBUT SINGLE 'IN RICE WE SURVIVE,' ON THE VINYL COMMUNICATIONS LABEL.  THEY APPEARED ON THE LOOKOUT! RECORDS SAMPLER 'CAN OF PORK' IN 1992, AND IN 1994 LOOKOUT! ISSUED THEIR ONLY ALBUM, 'FUCK YOU, THIS IS RICE!!!'  ITS MEMBERS HAD PLENTY OF OTHER PROJECTS, AND HAVING TAKEN THE JOKE AS FAR AS IT WOULD GO, RICE SUBSEQUENTLY CALLED IT A DAY."

ROB VASQUEZ: "THE CONCEPT OF 'RICE' ORIGINALLY STARTED WHEN I WAS DRIVING THE BAND 'STRUGGLE' ON TOUR IN EARLY 1991.  WE HAD JUST LEFT THIS HOUSE WE STAYED AT IN THE BAY AREA AND HAD BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR NEARLY AN HOUR.  WE STOPPED TO GET FOOD AT DENNY'S AND I REALIZED THAT I LEFT THIS RICE COOKER THAT MY GRANDMA GAVE ME AT THAT HOUSE, SO WE DROVE BACK AND GOT IT.  THAT DEDICATION AND CHANGING MOST OF THE LYRICS TO WHATEVER HARDCORE SONG THAT WAS PLAYING ON MY TAPE PLAYER IN THE CAR IN THE RIDE HOME FROM THE BAY AREA SHOWS SEALED WHAT WOULD BECOME RICE...  THE FIRST LYRICS I WROTE WERE REALLY DUMB, JUST PUTTING WORDS TOGETHER, AND THEN YELLING 'RICE' IN BETWEEN TO HAMMER THE POINT JUST TO MATCH THE RAWNESS OF THE MUSIC.  WHEN WE ACTUALLY STARTED REALLY WRITING HARDCORE SONGS, IS WHEN I DECIDED TO WRITE THE SONGS LIKE HOW A HARDCORE BAND SHOULD, WITH A SERIOUS FRONT.  THIS WAS THE EARLY 1990'S, WHERE ALMOST EVERY BAND WE LIKED AND WERE INTO OR KNEW ABOUT, HAD THE SAME MESSAGE OF UNITY AND WERE REALLY POLITICALLY CHARGED.  SOMETIMES IT FELT LIKE PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED, SO I WENT THAT ROUTE IN WRITING SONGS ABOUT RICE WITH POLITICAL UNDERTONES."  ZIP FILE COMES WITH A PDF OF THE INSERT BOOKLET.  

THE GRAIN OF STRENGTH IS UPON YOU.

TRACKLIST:

1. PURE 

2. SICK 

3. IN RICE WE SURVIVE 

4. RICE PICKER 

5. SEEDS 

6. UNDER MY SKIN 

7. ALONE 

8. GRAIN OF STRENGTH 

9. SPARROW 

10. RICE'S MEOW 

11. RICE CONTROL 

12. STICK TOGETHER 

13. JUST HOW MUCH... 

14. ALL STEAMED UP 

15. IN RICE WE SURVIVE 

16. STAYING POWER 

17. BREAKING THE ICE 

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