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You can get this album here:
Toxic Shock
Records: Westworld, P.O. Box 2091, Tucson, Az. 85702 (Phone
602-623-2008.)
[Toxic Shock changed its name to Westworld a few years ago.]
Ben McMillan: vocal.
Jack Endino: guitar; fuzz-wah-slide bass on 3,10.
Daniel House: bass.
Scott McCullum [aka Norman Scott]: drums.
1. Stranger [music
Jack/Dan/Scott, lyrics Ben]
2. Open Fist [music Dan/Jack, lyrics Ben]
3. G.O.D. [music Jack/Dan, lyrics Ben]
4. Needle Tree [music Scott/Dan, lyrics Ben]
5. Burn [music Jack/Dan, lyrics Ben]
6. Hallowed Ground [music Dan/Jack, lyrics Ben]
7. In the Black House [music/lyrics Ben]
8. Throb [music Dan/Jack, lyrics Ben]
9. OP4 [music Jack/Dan/Nerm, instro] (Nerm was a friend of
ours who originally played gtr in Feedback with Dan and Matt
Cameron.)
10. Wither (CD only) [music Dan/Jack/Scott, lyrics Ben]
11. American Nightmare (CD only - from the
"Secretions" comp, C/Z 006) [music Jack, lyrics Ben]
Review and info:
First to say, an awesome record, maybe their best... Released on Toxic Shock records(TXLP-15) in Spring '88 on vinyl, later reissued on CD with 2 bonus tracks. Prior to the release of the album, the band released a single "Stranger/This Lonely Place"(TX-9) and in Germany by Musical Tragedies(MT-139). The first 200 copies vere on purple vinyl, later copies had red and blue colors reversed. Recorded by Jack Endino on Otari MX-5050 half-inch 8-track. A total brakthrough, change of style from the first record. I loved it when I first heard "Stranger"...