THE FIRST BAND

The first band I was ever in was called, “The Tazmanians”. Probably not one of the greatest names ever conceived, but for a bunch of kids who had just graduated 8th grade I guess it seemed like an awesome idea. I just dug up two cassette tapes of recordings The Tazmanians made and I look forward to encoding them and popping them up here. For every moment of crushing embarrassment, there are equally matched moments of, “Hey, we were pretty good for 8th graders.”

However, that’s going to have to wait.

Random Children was probably the first somewhat successful band I was ever in. Of course, using the term “successful” only means that we were successful in getting shows where there were people in the crowd that actually didn’t know us. I guess thinking about it now, I might be able to stretch the definition of success a little more. We did get some pretty awesome shows, people did seem to support us at the time, and we had a hell of a lot of fun for High School kids.

Anyway, today’s topic is the song Burn. This was on a 7″ we put out ourselves on a record label we started called, Elbohead. It was a split 7″ with a band called The Mad Planets. At the time, there were numerous local bands popping up and we had started booking all ages shows at JC Dobbs on South Street. Kathy James, the booking lady for the venue will forever get my respect for allowing a couple of suburban kids to book all ages Sunday Matinees at a bar.
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Being complete amateurs and really, knowing nothing, we recorded the songs for this 7″ (called 4 and 3 is 7) at a friend’s house. His father did some recording work for the mentally handicapped focusing on music therapy. He and his father had no idea how to record music for punk bands but it didn’t matter. We had no money, they had a reel to reel tape machine and the 7″ had to be made.

The recording is agonizingly bad, but is worth it so as to not let our youth go to waste.

Burn – The Random Children (from the 4 and 3 is 7, 7″)

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