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Artist:	GIZMOS
Title:	1976/1977: The Studio Recordings
Label:	GULCHER
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	GUL 401

"Back in March 1976, when the Ramones were still a local New York band and the Sex Pistols weren't even a rumor in the U.S., a group of fanzine writers, rock cultists, and heavy-metal dudes got together in Bloomington, Indiana, and recorded the first Gizmos EP. The strong influences of the Dictators, the MC5, the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, 60s garage bands, and 50s rockabilly crashed head-on with musicians self-trained on Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Santana, and Jimi Hendrix. The underground success of the first EP led to another session in April 1977, which yielded two more EPs: Amerika First and Gizmos World Tour. 1976/1977: The Studio Recordings, the first-ever legitimate reissue of Gizmos material, collects the three EPs by the original Gizmos, along with eleven previously unreleased outtakes from the two sessions. The 16-page CD booklet contains mostly unpublished photos, Richard Meltzer's original liner notes for the first EP, and extensive liner notes by Gizmo Eddie Flowers." "The Gizmos were the only band apart from the Dictators who seemed to understand the necessity of positing post-rock cultural values in rockist terms in order to have them understood. Those EPs, esp. the first couple, were as perfect a distillation of suburban post-glitter confusion as I've ever heard." --Byron Coley Limited stock.

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