cover scans currently unavailable This was requested by some folks after I mentioned it in Eric’s recent (IMPATIENT) YOUTH post and I’ll glady help out.
I swear, (IMPATIENT) YOUTH would probably only need to pick up their instruments and it would be a smash hit already! Earworm melody after earworm melody, very harmonic but not without a 2nd layer of a pessimistic undertone. Clearly CLASH influenced, with a lot of folk-ish feeling thrown in and in that sense maybe typical for the late 70s S.F. scene. A Bay Area punk veteran once told me that nobody really cared for (I).Y. too much as there were wilder things going on in Southern California at the time. This on one hand wouldn’t surprise me due to the rather traditional sound of this outfit, but as time went by, the qualities and durability of (I).Y. shines through. “Impatient Youth”, the band’s theme song, illustrates it rather nicely: Catchy melodies, a flesh hook of a chorus line and, as said before, a certain melancholic vibe. Essential and one of my fave bands!
THE MUTANTS sound kinda X-sh and I’m sorry to say they never really impressed me.
500 made of this white piece of plastic – two Bay Area bands recorded live in 1978 (when I was into ABBA, AC/DC and Blondie).
IMPATIENT YOUTH: Impatient Youth.mp3
IMPATIENT YOUTH: I don’t care.mp3
THE MUTANTS: Love song.mp3
THE MUTANTS: Insect Lounge.mp3
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Nice one! Thanks a lot for your efforts.
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dammit, glad you’re back! that last post before this (“happy people”) left me worrying …..
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I knew nobody would appreciate this. Feck you all.
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Impatient Youth in this line up was Bill Martin on guitar and vocals, Paul Casteel on bass and back up vocals,
Chris Fisher on drums.
http://www.myspace.com/casteelmusic
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Before Impatient Youth Bill Martin was in a hard rock band called FAZE! They used to play at the Keystone in Berkeley, California and Los Caneros in Napa. Denny Boredom, who was in the Offs and played with Jorma Kaukonen was in FAZE as well. Chris Coon was the original drummer in Impatient Youth as well as the drummer for FAZE. Chris Coon was also in Johnny Genocide’s band No Alternative and started the Wounds and House of Wheels with Paul Casteel.
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I listened to the mp3′s here of Impatient Youth and the lineup is early 78 with Bill Martin on guitar, Michael ? on bass (I can’t remember his last name) and myself on drums. Paul Casteel was our manager at the time before he was the bass player. After the hard rock period of an earlier group called “Faze” that both Bill Martin and I played in, we started going to punk shows in SF. Bill started coming up with new material that we would practice and this rehearsing went on for a long time. Our first show was at the Temple Beautiful in SF opening the group Tuxedomoon. Wow! What a blur! I’m still alive! I plan to scan images from my archives which will be posted on my Website.
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