Boston’s DEATHWISH recorded a demo tape in December of 1983 that stayed widely obscured even in the tape trader circuit until three of the songs saw the light of day in 1989 on this piece of vinyl – at the climax of the first post-Hardcore wave that swept all the gym clowns into the old structures.
This is state of the art in-your-face Hardcore. Recorded at Radiobeat Studios, the three songs rip and roar, much in the vein of “My America” era F.U.’s or a little tamed “Is this my World?” JERYY’S KIDS. One of the two guitarists was Jordan Wood, who in 1985 formed SLAPSHOT together with Choke (NEGATIVE FX, LAST RIGHTS) and who commited suicide a few years ago.
Of course, with a press run of a meager 300 copies, this became an instant collectors item (I think I got this from Seth Putnam who is a very generous bloke and occasionally sent me packages with newly released records he thought I might like). No wonder, Lost & Found Records pressed its own bootleg version of “Tailgate” in the mid 90s.
Tailgate.mp3
Break the Chain.mp3
Condemned.mp3
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what a pity they don´t make 12″ back in 1983!!! For example…
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More hardcore frenzy. Impressive but way too short!!
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Yeah, I have the boot on Lost & Found. Blastin’ Boston hardcore very typical of the style at the time. Very short, but that’s the way hardcore should be, in my opinion.
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I always thought that “Tailgate” was closer to “Get It Away”-era SS Decontrol, myself. Great friggin’ song.
Some of the lesser-known bands like Deathwish and Siege are as good or better as the other well-known Boston-area bands (DYS, SSD, FU’s, Jerry’s Kids) of that era.
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Break the Chain and Cond(om)emned are both great. As if SSD had made two fast tracks for Give it away.
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I posted this a long time ago on last days. I think its the greatest Boston HC 7inch ever released. One of the members contacted me later and shared some later tracks and they had gone in a decidedly more Dag Nasty direction. I liked it but these three are the nazzzz.
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This is testosterone HC with a splash of Boston clam chowder at it’s best!!! I wonder why no other songs were released by Deathwish? Hey Erich, when are you going to put a Jimi Hendrix record on rotation???
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That’s a good question, Eddie.
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Joe Stumble:
any chance to share these later songs somewhere in the net?
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hey stinky82…Jono who I believe was one of the guitarists in the band sent them to me. He asked me not to post them because he would like to see them (along with the original Tailgate sessions) get a formal release. If not, I woulda posted them a loooong time ago!
My original post is here:
http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/?p=13
You can see his note. He contacted me via email shortly after.
The sound of the later stuff was sort of rock-n-roll meets early Dag Nasty. Definitely not the brutal Boston HC sound thats on this 45. This 45 just kills in my opinion. What was it about the Boston scene that made these bands sound so fucking tough and intense?
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