BCT #7
Chris BCT Says:
I wrote a list of all my favorite albums and a few 7"s and called this my favorite album of all time at chrisbct2.blogspot.com. Originally a 60 minute tape, re-issued in 2002 as a 72 minute cd, 500 copies. When we were originally making it Antonio is sayin', 'No, not this track.' due to some perceived imperfection of the performance for this song or that one. Me and Dave are like flummoxed, cuz every song ruled. He was the bassist so we did what he wanted. I still disagree. Every song CCM did and, oddly, strangely, every song of the entire gig rules. I've always loved split releases and this works to perfection as a 3 split release. Most bands fall into the either they're great in the studio and not so great live or the opposite. Only a few blast in both. CCM has some great releases particularly their split cassette release with IRI! Permanent Scar. It was re-issued shorter on lp. They've done other albums and 7"s but nothing compares to their live set and this one is their finest. Period. They do many maybe even all the songs from the PS release. There's something about their intensity. I had a punk friend and his punk friend in the back of my parent's big car in S.F. maybe in 2002 and we're crusin' in the night and I'm blastin' this thing and as every CCM song comes on I'm askin' 'em if that's tearin' their heads off and they're laughin' and shouting how it is and then the next song comes on and it was just a frenzy. CCM only toured the U.S. once, 1986. They honored us by driving all the way down from Utah or somewhere to do our San Diego show then back up to S.F. It was one of the great shows I ever saw. Virtually exactly as amazing as this one. Oddly, the S.F. show was video taped and it is flat. I don't know why. Some folks say CCM is the Italian Germs. I can see it. I saw both bands and there's no question that CCM is band they are only with some overlap with the Germs. Really what they are, particularly on this live tape, is the greatest live recorded HC set ever. When the 2002 cd came out I was communicating with Syd, the singer and he suggested that all the music be made free. It's what's instigated me to do so onto the Internet once I get the BCT tapes remastered. These on Dr Drunk are a great way to start tho I have yet to successfully hear a note of any of the tapes cuz of downloading issues. IRI! is a completely unique HC band. I still don't know what they have besides some keyboard. They have a song where there's an explosion. It's 1983. How did they do that? No computers. I generally dislike keyboard. Pere Ubu does it cuz they're so off kilter about it and the Doors and Elvis Costello seem to do it. But in a HC band, I just don't get it but it totally works. The singer visited us in the mid 80's with his gf. They vacationed in Mexico and he came back and showed us a 7 layer deep burn in the middle of his chest. Traumatic was, at the time, folding. But, apparently they came back in to be in this gig. It's tight and total 60's punk. Italy has a very unique musical fabric and Traumatic (and Juggernaut) give us a connection to the 60's punk but still very flavorful of the classic 80's Italian HC. Like Walter Brennan said in an old b&w movie: no brag, just fact.
At the end of this vol ll we chose a Christmas song and speeded it up. Antonio wrote a manifesto type statement and attempted to say it in Italian but failed spectacularly so, of course, we included it. Then I said it in English but got overly excited and loud so the last sentence is missed which is something like, 'against cops, no matter what uniform they wear.' It's the only time on a BCT tape that we added our own thing.
I wrote a list of all my favorite albums and a few 7"s and called this my favorite album of all time at chrisbct2.blogspot.com. Originally a 60 minute tape, re-issued in 2002 as a 72 minute cd, 500 copies. When we were originally making it Antonio is sayin', 'No, not this track.' due to some perceived imperfection of the performance for this song or that one. Me and Dave are like flummoxed, cuz every song ruled. He was the bassist so we did what he wanted. I still disagree. Every song CCM did and, oddly, strangely, every song of the entire gig rules. I've always loved split releases and this works to perfection as a 3 split release. Most bands fall into the either they're great in the studio and not so great live or the opposite. Only a few blast in both. CCM has some great releases particularly their split cassette release with IRI! Permanent Scar. It was re-issued shorter on lp. They've done other albums and 7"s but nothing compares to their live set and this one is their finest. Period. They do many maybe even all the songs from the PS release. There's something about their intensity. I had a punk friend and his punk friend in the back of my parent's big car in S.F. maybe in 2002 and we're crusin' in the night and I'm blastin' this thing and as every CCM song comes on I'm askin' 'em if that's tearin' their heads off and they're laughin' and shouting how it is and then the next song comes on and it was just a frenzy. CCM only toured the U.S. once, 1986. They honored us by driving all the way down from Utah or somewhere to do our San Diego show then back up to S.F. It was one of the great shows I ever saw. Virtually exactly as amazing as this one. Oddly, the S.F. show was video taped and it is flat. I don't know why. Some folks say CCM is the Italian Germs. I can see it. I saw both bands and there's no question that CCM is band they are only with some overlap with the Germs. Really what they are, particularly on this live tape, is the greatest live recorded HC set ever. When the 2002 cd came out I was communicating with Syd, the singer and he suggested that all the music be made free. It's what's instigated me to do so onto the Internet once I get the BCT tapes remastered. These on Dr Drunk are a great way to start tho I have yet to successfully hear a note of any of the tapes cuz of downloading issues. IRI! is a completely unique HC band. I still don't know what they have besides some keyboard. They have a song where there's an explosion. It's 1983. How did they do that? No computers. I generally dislike keyboard. Pere Ubu does it cuz they're so off kilter about it and the Doors and Elvis Costello seem to do it. But in a HC band, I just don't get it but it totally works. The singer visited us in the mid 80's with his gf. They vacationed in Mexico and he came back and showed us a 7 layer deep burn in the middle of his chest. Traumatic was, at the time, folding. But, apparently they came back in to be in this gig. It's tight and total 60's punk. Italy has a very unique musical fabric and Traumatic (and Juggernaut) give us a connection to the 60's punk but still very flavorful of the classic 80's Italian HC. Like Walter Brennan said in an old b&w movie: no brag, just fact.
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ReplyDeleteAt the end of this vol ll we chose a Christmas song and speeded it up. Antonio wrote a manifesto type statement and attempted to say it in Italian but failed spectacularly so, of course, we included it. Then I said it in English but got overly excited and loud so the last sentence is missed which is something like, 'against cops, no matter what uniform they wear.' It's the only time on a BCT tape that we added our own thing.
ReplyDeleteI have 5 cds of last white xmas raw masters. What's the info on these Chris?
ReplyDeleteOriginally they were on 5 or 6 cassettes that Antonio and his friend brought with them a week after the gig with GDHC's intention that BCT release some tapes of it. Together with the 2 guys me and Dave, my lst BCT partner, we made LWC vol l and vol ll. That was maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the raw tapes. I really don't remember why we didn't use more. Antonio was not wanting to use all the ccm tracks for what appeared to be his sense of imperfection or i dunno what, over how some of the songs came out. Some musicians might hear something while to me and Dave their entire set ripped thru and thru but, of course, we honored his request. I've had the full set of tapes and learned a few years later that the tape set the Italians had disappeared over the years. So i transferred them to cdrs. I have like 2 sets of them. I did something funny, i don't remember what, one set is 5 of 'em, while the other set is 6. I think i have all 11. but it's just a matter of fitting some band's full sets on a cdr or not, no music is added or deleted. I remember that now. So i traded with some tape traders, only 1 or 2, for these and was happy to cuz i think they rip, thru and thru. i'd love to see the full gig released and at one point about 10 years ago some Italian punx said they were working on that. i never heard of it since being released. i would love for anyone to post the entire gig on line somewhere so people could download it for free or, at the very least, hear it. if you have the 5, what do you think? cool, later, chris- I do know that they were recorded slightly off, somethings too this and somethings too that, but, in the end, it's there and well recorded, overall. very little crowd noise, just some in between down time, not a lot, and, overall, the finest recorded HC gig of all time, to my ears.
ReplyDeleteunfortunaly the link is dead, so could it please be possible that somebody can re-up this somwhere?
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