Eden's End: "A Dream" (live, 1986)

Last year, we published a photo of a shot glass given away during the grand opening of the old Club Notes. One of the bands who helped christen the club was Eden's End, and singer/bassist Jack Goodwin recently wrote in to share a recording ("A Dream") from that historic evening and a photo of the band taken at the club (from left: Jack, guitarist Byron Norton, drummer Clayton Dickson). Eden's End are still going (Jack's the only original member) although, he notes, "the only room we rock these days is in our guitarist's basement in Sunnyside."

Thanks a million for sharing these gems, Jack!

The download URL for "A Dream" is in the comments.

Bad Housekeeping: Macho Rock Onslaught (1988)

Released on cassette

Side 1
Super Charged
Whipping Boy
Love For a Price (Kempy & the Guardians)
Hangman
King of the 7 Sins

Side 2
Hi Octane Headache
Death Cheaters Club
G.P.A.
High Mass in C
Bad Housekeeper

A Limited Warranty to Consumers
Bad Housekeeping
Promises
Replacement or Refund if Defective

MACHO ROCK ONSLAUGHT

engineered by dix and cal
made at longshot
produced by accident

THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD!!
WE MEAN IT BABY!!

the group
h monstroso the bass
firekracker willi manuel the axe
zildjian crash both feet kickin
slim dyn o mite stik throat

thanks to the pyro crew and all the rebel village

all songs copyright THE BAD HOUSEKEEPING 1988
except - love for a price by p. davidson tall pine b.m.i.

Get it from our pals at the Calgary Cassette Preservation Society.

Tau Ceti: live on FM Moving Pictures (c. 1982)

Barry Calnan, who drummed for Tau Ceti, dug up an old VHS recording of the band playing "Bathed in Dark Light" and "Radiation" on FM Moving Pictures, the legendary Calgary community cable TV show hosted by the equally legendary Mike Bezzeg. (Bezzeg later released Tau Ceti's records on his Small Horse, Big Apple label.) We know from keyword web traffic stats that a lot of people are jonesing for FM footage (and its follow-up, Chrome-A-Key Kids, hosted by Bezzeg and the late James Muretich)--anyone sitting on some dusty tapes? And can someone identify the fellow sitting with Bezzeg at the end of this clip? Barry remembers him doing sound for Tau Ceti on occassion ("nice guy") but can't remember his name.

Color Me Psycho: demos (1987)

Direct from Aleister Hexxx, six songs recorded in the summer of '87. (Note to CMP completists: "Two Towers" doesn't show up anywhere else.) "The demo was done at the same place as the LP (exactly a year apart)," writes Hexxx. "I actually prefer a couple of the demo versions to the LP ones ("Give Ya the Gears" has more spontaneity for sure). It was all fun though." A tip o' the hat to Mr. Hexxx for passing this along!

Track listing:

Sacred Valley Penetration
Mother's Worry
Two Towers
Six Foot Jane
Black Corvair
Give You the Gears

Download URL in comments.

Color Me Psycho: Pretend I'm Your Father (1988)

Released on 12" vinyl by Raging Records (Rage-002)

Side A
Sacred Valley Penetration
What's Yer Phobia +
Sinister Urge +
Let's Play Doktor
My Favorite Nightmare *

Side A
October God
Untamed World
Surfin' Gomorrah
Six Foot Jane
Mother's Worry
Give You the Gears


Jack Keen: noise bass, background yelling
Johnny Twelvefingers: visceral organs
S__ P____ Lärkin: drumbs
Aleister Hexxx: eyesore guitar, hootin' and hollerin'

Produced and directed by Randy "Needle" Parker and Color Me Psycho at R and L Studios, Calgary 1988. All songs written by Hexxx, Keen, Larkin, Twelvefingers—except + (Haze, Hexxx, Larkin, Keen 1986) and * (Hexxx, Keen, Larkin, Dez 1985)
Because God told us to... CAPAC REG.


"Sacred Valley Penetration" is available on the compilation 90.9 With A Bullet: 20 Years of Calgary Music on CJSW (2005). Buy it here.

Download the rest of Pretend I'm Your Father: URL in comments.

Color Me Psycho: live at the National Hotel (1985)

More early CMP from O Canadarm! Aleister Hexxx thinks this show was around Halloween '85: "I'm thinking we'd played the ACA H'we'en dance the night before, which went smashingly, and I faintly recall being a bit put off by the not-so-enthusiastic National crowd."

Track listing:

Stiff All Over
Kitten with a Whip
Rocket Babies
Lotsa Medicine
Father's Name Is Dad (The Fire)
Genius at Work
Rigor Mortis Rock
My Favorite Nightmare
Suffocation Girl

Color Me Psycho: "H+R Block" early recordings (1985)

O Canadarm! has a bunch of early Color Me Psycho recordings, collected under the rubric "H+R Block." Why? According to CMP frontman Aleister Hexxx, "We used to practice at the H+R Block in a Forest Lawn strip mall in the off-tax-season. We had to move after we practiced during work hours one day (we had a show that night at the U o' C), causing a dentist next door to file a complaint (and probably a few teeth he hadn't planned on)! The H+R Block stuff was done over the course of a weekend towards the end of the summer of '85. We had only been playing for a few months at that point, and there are lots of sucky tunes that got dropped right away after we started playing out more. Playing out is always the best way of sorting out what works and what don't."

Track listing:

Stiff All Over
Mr. Invisible
Shove Your Love
Transylvanian Erotica
Cryptica - Shatter City
Rocket Babies
Chandeiler Of Pain
Lovers Leap
Bride
Grand Guignol
Prove It
My Favourite Nightmare
Suffocation Girl
Genius At Work
Rigor Mortis Rock
Psychomania
Psychomania
Gargoyles