Howdy! Hardly anyone's heard this old vintage Bomb from 1986, but it’s damn cool and I’m happy to share it with you.

This is the demo we did in our guitarist Jay Crawford's garage, where we also formed and rehearsed, prior to re-recording these songs better, and with more songs, on our first vinyl album, "To Elvis In Hell." I also lived in that garage for a year.

This was either recorded live with 2 PCM boundary mics. Or we recorded guitar/bass/drums/ live with that, then we overdubbed the vocals, and did it on a 4-track Tascam Portastudio. None of us remember for sure. Jay engineered it.

After this was done, we made about 200 copies of this, by hand, over a few months, with a dubbing deck. We Xeroxed, cut, and folded the covers ourselves, gave them to friends and used them to book our first tour. We'd only been together 6 months when we made this.

"To Elvis in Hell" eventually came out, recorded at a better studio and with better, more seasoned performing (we'd been together longer), so wqe saw no reason to widely release this later.

The Internet didn't even exist then, but I put it on the Internet here for free decades later, well after the band broke up, when I finally found a copy of it. I didn't have a copy for a long time. I kept giving my copies away back in the day. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the 38-meg high-encode rate 21-minute. (Right-click to save.)

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