Tina Peel - More Than Just Good Looks 7":
Pyjama Party / Punk Rock Janitor (live) // Girl Talk / Fabian Lips
450 copies on black vinyl w/sleeves (some w/lyric sheets too)
550 copies on black vinyl w/o sleeves
Dacoit Records 003 / Limp Records 002, 1978
Lineup: Jackson Plugs - drums / Rowdy Doody - segova bass, vocals / Dob O'Nair - farfisa organ, vocals / Rudy Protrudi - lead vocals, guitar
Recording Info:
Notes: A and B labels pictured. Some copies came with a lyric insert and some copies had the record title colored in w/magic marker. Tina Peel=Teen Appeal. Get it? From Harrisburg, PA, home of Poison.
Skip's Comments: Rudy Protrudi, who later had the Fuzztones, was good friends with the Slickee Boys, and they performed a lot locally. Both Kim Kane and I approached them after seeing a show, and we both wanted to put out a record by them, so we did it as a split release between Limp and Dacoit. Even though it sounds like it's recorded live, we didn't have anything to do with the production of that. They did that themselves.
It's rated very highly as a collectible item, perhaps undeservedly so. I think Knocking Down Guardrails, which got put on probably the Best of Limp...I see you're...
:30 Over DC.
It is? (laughs) Is this going to be on the final test?
Yes, yes it is.
(laughs) Well in any case that was a song that they had left over from those sessions or sessions they'd done later. I thought that was a much better, representative, recorded sound of what they were.
I think that this sounds like a party record. It just sounds like it was recorded live and, obviously, Punk Rock Janitor is.
Reviews: I've been after this record for a while now and was excited as hell when Skip turned up a stash w/sleeves and started selling them on ebay. Speakin' o' sleeves, that's a mighty nice looking record, isn't it? That vinyl sure is black. Certainly as black as the Shirkers or BMB 7"s, though maybe not as black as the first Slickee Boys 7". Nice and round too. Yup. Sure is one good lookin' record. Too bad I can't fuckin' play the thing since my stereo blew its little brains out and now distorts everything horribly. Sure is nice to look at though.
2004/05/16: New stereo, for a while at least (this one needs to have its cassette drive belts replaced, since they disintigrated, so it goes into the shop soon). This sounds like an organned-up Slickee Boys (BTW, "I organned up your mother" would make a great insult.). Punk Rock Janitor (Not written about Kim Kane, Montgomery County School System's own punk rock janitor, but written about a punk/janitor from Harrisburg) is a nice little tune, with a bit o' the pizaz that the studio cuts are missing.
2004/05/28: My old stereo (the one that distorted things horribly), is now back from the shop. Some of the solder had cracked, and it's now in fine feckle. Now the new one (with the busted cassette belts) goes in. Not that this has anything to do with Tina Peel.
Does anyone have a tape of the complete show that Punk Rock Janitor was taken from? If so, Email me!
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