I’ve been neglecting you guys and gals lately, so here I’m making it up with Italy’s SHOTGUN SOLUTION. A band of which I know pretty much nothing. This is the only material I have by them and it’s fucking GREAT! You will notice that that first song, “Apocalypse”, recalls D.O.A’s “Prisoner” a bit. “Shotgun” is just fantastic, showing a lot of potential in terms of songwriting. The guitarist is obviously a metal guy, lots of wanking, especially on “IKYetc” – the guitar stuff actually sounds kinda AK-47ish and the song has a total AGENT ORANGE (dutch) feeling. Crazy shit like you’d only hear it from Japan otherwise. Anyway, a great, pretty obscure 7″ and thanks to me (applause) you get it for free again.
I’m really hating to leaving you with this short writeup, so please fill us in, hordes of hades (and google). I only could tell you that I just finished watching “American Hardcore” (the DVD), but I guess this is not the right moment. A sad movie.
Apocalypse.mp3
Shotgun.mp3
I.K.Y.C.I.M.F.mp3
Devil’s evl Tongue.mp3
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The one-man army doing it again. Posting killer record after killer record. This is history happening here! Donation will be made in 5 minutes.
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The one-man army doing it again. Posting killer record after killer record. This is history happening here! Donation will be made in 5 minutes.
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And don’t forget THIS blog for killer shit!
http://www.damagingnoise.blogspot.com
ERICH! You haven’t written back about GAI tape!
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but can you dance to it?
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Dammit, there’s a screw-up on the first track! I want my free music to be pristine, clean, and pure! What the hell is this world coming to?
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Is there?
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Not now-thanks!!
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hot ahit man!!!
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heey, thanx Erich for this EP. I´ve known “apocalypse” song from your old proto-blog (but I forgot the name) and since then I am praying in order I could have chance to hear whole thing…thanx again
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that was eric’s famous virtual bootleg “reanimated by life” which had 2 volumes (or 3?). very happy too to hearing this – it’s a very strange but extremely original record. crazy that nobobdy seems to know it.
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david cremona,
yes, you´re right with that name.
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Good job, this is a great record, had this from a friend which had it on tape. I don’t think the record is imposssible to find nowadays, but sure you’ll have to pay more than a few bucks for it. In my opinion, this is one of the best early italian hc record sung in english (along with Rough, Raw Power, REIG…). Anyway it has this typical European HC touch, i wouldn’t have thought to Agent Orange especially, but it’s a good comparaison. Cheers !
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BTW, forgot to mention the band was from Roma if anyone cares about it.
I think the guys hung out with bands like Bloody Riot and Klaxon.
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I think they ate a lot of pizza, hang out with their girlfriends and eventually recorded an EP. Idiot.
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named after the best angelic upstarts song,perhaps?and the singer had a bit of a rep…killer record though.idiot.
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I have this on vinyl and it’s one of my favorite Italian records ever… Top 5 easily, maybe even top 3. Another band from Roma with a similar sound is Bloody Riot, who fucking ruled too.
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Doesn’t really sound like Bloody Riot, but well. Agreed – top record.
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KBD Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 23:51
if you listen to Bloody Riot “s/t” LP (1985), the guitar solos are very similar to Shotgun Solution 7″ guitar solos.
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And check the Stigma 7″ep (from 1985) too, same city, same style, just a lot harder to find…
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I produced “Shotgun” EP back in 1983 for my High Rise label. What can I say? The band was from Rome, the name was taken from the Angelic Upstarts song and, yes, the guitarist loved metal (especially Motorhead).
The EP was recorded in one afternoon, with an 8-track. We did five tracks but never mixed the fifth, that was called… oh shit, I don’t remember… but it was too much time ago. It’s the only record of the band, they broke up a few months after the release.
“IKYCIMF” stands for “I Keep Your Cunt In My Freezer”… the song is about a guy who goes out of jail, found his girlfriend with another man and kills her… and put her cunt in his freezer as a “memory”.
Any questions?
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Thanks so much Federico, for shedding some light on this! Are there any more SHOTGUN SOLUTION recordings around, like demos or so? You should be rereleasing this, it’s a real gemm!
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Thanks! I’m glad you like the ep.
There aren’t demos, only a few very bad live tapes and the fifth track – not mixed – of the session, called – I remembered! – “Neutron Bomb” (no relation with the Weirdos or Controllers songs).
The ep was printed in 1,000 copies, all sold at the time. I don’t think I’ll never rerelease it by myself, I stopped making records seventeen years ago… but if I’ll find one label interested in it… why not?
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Shit! I was I saw this when it was originally posted. If anyone can point Federico to this, I’d love to re-release the 7″ on vinyl or very cheap CDEP on my label. Please email me at chaosnonmusica@gmail.com. Thanks, hopefully we can work something out!
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Zach – check you mailbox!
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Thanks to the admin, who gave my address to Zach! We’ll try to arrange the reprint.
I remembered one thing about the band… they opened for Dead Kennedys in Rome (they were chosen by Jello Biafra in a sort of “battle of the bands”) and -maybe – for Discharge a few moths later (sorry… it was a lot of time ago and I’m not sure about this).
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KBD Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 23:52
Hi Federico! There are news about Shotgun Solution re-release? If yes, please let us know. Thanks a lot!!
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Glad I could help out. Please keep us posted about the reprint of this.
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Hey Admin, thanks for posting this record! I haven’t heard anything about the re-press that guy Zach was talking about, have you? I have a label that is definitely interested in putting this classic back in print, so please let me know if you have any more info! Thanks.
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Man, these guys are great. Any word on a reissue anybody?
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More than four years later, I finally listened to this EP! Wow, great stuff! Very powerful, especially the last song! During some parts of this EP I thought of NYHC records like the 1st Cause For Alarm EP. Maybe it’s the rapid fire drumming sound…
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Hi Erich. I’m not sure there has been much movement or progress with a Shotgun Solution re-issue at this point. I’m not making promises or the like but wouldn’t mind making some correspondence with the original label guy, Federico Guglielmi, if you wouldn’t mind forwarding me his email address. It would be nice to try and locate the 5th track he speaks of and potentially including that on any future re-issue.
Kind Regards and thanks.
Clinton
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