(no image in the dropbox - AB) So, here's the thing. We were all set to keep on keeping' on, and post all of the stuff that was in James Muretich's collection (well, all the stuff that Mary-Lynn Wardle had, anyways)... and then the former proprietor of Golden Rock drops us an email with something he's just discovered he's been sitting on for several years. Something that, well, is something special. [center][img width=394]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1709737761287x595135751819346600/richtext_content.jpeg[/img][/center] If you read [url=https://ecwpress.com/products/perfect-youth]Perfect Youth[/url] (we tried, and kind of gave up... to be fair, we haven't made it through Ulysses yet, either), you might get a conflicted sense of this town's history. Sutherland wants to peg December 1977 as when "Calgary had its first punk show", featuring Allen Baekeland and Alan McDonald's Social Blemishes. But, just before that, in a brief four paragraphs, Sutherland recounts the history of Buick McKane, our city's "stumbling first step into punk." Talking to folks from that era of the scene, Sutherland perhaps doesn't give this band their due - sure, they went on to form the seminal Crash Kills Five, and subsequently the unforgettable Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet... but they also opened a lot of kids' eyes (and ears) and maybe got this whole thing rolling (along with some high school kid who had just come back from the UK with a pile of punk records to share with his friends). What we didn't know is that there were recorded artifacts from this band - which is truly ground zero of our underground music scene. Here's the note from Golden Rock: [indent data=1]Here's the Buick McKane stuff, six songs from two different sources: [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] [indent data=1] 1978 demo: Janie Jones [/indent] [indent data=1]Anywhere, Anytime [/indent] [indent data=1]Oddy Knocky [/indent] [indent data=1]She's Only [/indent] [indent data=1]Downtown...When It's Dark [/indent] [indent data=1]Scott Reed: vocals [/indent] [indent data=1]Brian Connelly: guitar [/indent] [indent data=1]Reid Diamond: bass [/indent] [indent data=1]Alex Koch: drums [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] [indent data=1] Studio recording, June 16th, year unknown: Vambo [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] [indent data=1]Scott Reed: vocals [/indent] [indent data=1]Brian Connelly: guitar [/indent] [indent data=1]Reid Diamond: bass [/indent] [indent data=1]Rob Wynne: drums [/indent] [indent data=1]Recorded by James Braden (sp?) [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] [indent data=1]Other than "Vambo," which is definitely a Sensational Alex Harvey Band cover , I *think* these are all original BM compositions, but am not positive. It's all got that Alex Harvey pub-glam-rock feel... "Oddy Knocky" and "She's Only" showed up in Crash Kills Five sets a few years later.... [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] [indent data=1]I can't believe I didn't know I had these! They were on a couple of CDs of Crash Kills Five stuff that I've had for years but forgot to listen to because they came in a huge package of Shadowy Men bootlegs and such (15 discs or so!) that I got from the guy who runs the definitive, unofficial Shadowy site (I traded him a digital copy of SMOASP's Peel Session, which Don Pyle dubbed for me overtop an E.J. Brule cassette in 1993 or so). So that's that. [/indent] [indent data=1][/indent] Yes, indeed. That is that. We don't have much to offer beyond Golden Rock's description. So why are we still writing? We should be pointing you to the download !
