Comments on: The Germs – Cruising Studio Sessions E.P. 7″

By: Good bad Music for bad, bad Times! / THE GERMS- Lions Share Bootleg LP (Ghost ‘o Darb Recordings / Lager Rhythms, USA, 1988)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:06:26 +0000

[...] I had recently downloaded it and was kinda puzzled to hear how careless it’s made. Like the folks over at KBD said, it sounds all crappy, muffled. A loveless piece of work and not worth the money. Somebody [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:06 +0000

The amazing thing is that you can actually hear the background vocals, unlike the MIA cd.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:13:59 +0000

Yeah fuck that Briefs bs and any other underwear bands.

That one poster is 100% correct that the Germs CD has some serious sounds problems, INCLUDING the GI cuts, which sound muddy. Lion’s Share was a cool boot, the band member they are a-luding to could only be Bolles, as Pat seized all the copies at Rhino, so it wannit him! No way was it Lorna.

The real shame is that My Tunnel is part of the Jack Nitzche sessions, and is only included on the MIA cd as a taped-from-Rodney recording, fade-in and all!

By: BCDotson

BCDotson — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:33:34 +0000

This is really good, I’m not even that big of a Germs fan, but I like this. I can actually understand what Darby is singing on this. Great post!!

By: wedge

wedge — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:48:26 +0000

i must agree, NOT ALL RIGHT is the best Germs song EVER!! theres just something about it…

“Lions Share” is missing from this ep bootleg as the same people who did this one, also released (at the same time) a seperate Germs 45 called “What God Means To Me” & that has the 2 songs “Lions Share b/w No God”. also, in the late 1980′s theres a LP with this whole 5-tracks session on 1 side & GREAT PERFECT 1st GENERATION quality stuff from their last show on the other side. its called “Lions Share” & its on a label called Lager Rythms…ive heard many rumours that it was actually financed by an ex-band member that was so frustrated over the legal BS that prevented these studio tracks being officially released, they went & pressed it themselves. a re-issue of this bootleg appeared in the late 1990′s, but i have no idea of the quality of that issue, but it uses the same sleeve graphics.

whats funny, is the OFFICIAL CD issue of the Germs discography on Slash is from the WORST quality tape of these sessions & they sound unlistenable there. these “bootlegs” sound totally perfect in comparison…