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ARTIST
TRACKS
TITLE
Brakes On You
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
RAVE UP RECORDS
CATALOG #
RUR 089LP
RUR 089LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/4/2022
Mid-seventies Boston and a new local music scene was being forged in defiant opposition to tired arena acts and disco.
Jeff (Mono Man) Connolly
and
JJ Rassler
powered
DMZ
, while
John Felice
led the
Real Kids
on stripped-down rockers inspired by '60s garage bands. On the darker side,
Tracks
'
Lorry Doll
growled and spit out the lyrics to "Gang War Rumble," "I Don't Need You", and "Love Is (Bondage and Leather)". Co-founded with fellow art student/guitarist
Jeff Rey
, Lorry and Tracks joined a handful of other bands at the infamous Rat igniting Boston's new music scene; just as
Television
, the
Ramones
,
Talking Heads
, and others were doing the same in New York. Some called it punk or new wave, but it really was the birth of an alternative form of original expression that not only influenced and inspired subsequent bands coming out of these two cities, but also impacted all music that was to follow. In 1976, Tracks recorded a live set at the Club in Cambridge and released "Brakes on You" as a single on Blue Door Records. Picked up by Bomp for international distribution, it garnered Tracks worldwide notoriety. By the end of 1978, bolstered by airplay for the single, Tracks were playing most of their gigs in New York at legendary punk venues like CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. Sharing the bill with renown acts like the
Police
and the
Jam
and every other "hot new act" that was coming through the east coast, Doll and Rey knew they would have to make the move to NYC sooner or later. It came on Christmas day in December of that year. They returned to Boston for one final raucous gig with bassist
John Shriver
and drummer
Bryan Brat
on January 20th of 1979 and then Tracks (but not Doll and Rey) faded into history.
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