Another split post togheter with Erichs Good Bad Music For Bad, Bad Times! Here’s Texas Really Reds debute 7inch from 1979.
One of the few bands that manage the transition from a great punk rock band to an equally great HC band. Loud guitars and a tight hi hat upfront in the mix makes this irresistebale. All their stuff is classic except for their live ditty: Despise Moral Majority 7inch.
So enjoy this and then head over to Erichs post of their second 7inch: Modern Needs.
Ops! I just realised that Dressed For The H Bomb posted this too. But once again “someone” have speeded it up.
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: C.I.A.
Format: 7″
Songs:
Crowd Control.mp3
Corporate Settings.mp3
KBD-Records (the last one was so extremely succesfull, haha). Go to his site and you’ll get the first REALLY RED 7″. Then tell us which one you like better – the first or the 2nd one. And why. You’ll get Punkrock-Grades from us and will eventually be permitted a
many pissed off kids to make so much great music. From bands like The Next, Hates, Huns, & Legionaire’s Disease Band to The Dicks, Big Boys, Offenders, MDC, & of course, Really Red. All their records were released on their own CIA records, starting with theCrowd Control 7”in 1979. The next year came the Modern Needs 7”. 1981 saw the release of both the Despise Moral Majority E.P. & the magnificently untouchable Teaching You The Fear LP. With 1982 came perhaps their best 7”, the New Strings For Old Puppets E.P. As their final ou
By the looks of some of the latest comments on Erich’s site, you and him should start up a reissue label – your readers will fund it
Great band, saw them many times. Still wonder what happened to Ron after he moved to Seattle…
Really Red were such a fantastic band (er, except for that live EP and some tracks on their 2nd LP “Rest In Pain”). Their “Teaching You The Fear” LP is phenomenal, no two songs sound the same on it. U-Ron Bond was one of the best singers ever in a punk band. And the band was so tight. This “Crowd Control” 7″ is great, such loud guitars on both songs. BUT for my ears their follow-up 7″ “Modern Needs” is better. On it they sound a bit tighter and polished and at the top of their game. Well, I would have chosen a different B-side than “White Lies” for that 7″ though. There was a Really Red CD on Angry Neighbor that came out in ‘93- it had most of their recorded output on it (sans the “Crowd Control” 7″, the “White Lies” 7″ version, and some cuts from the 2nd LP). Back in 1995, there was a classified in Maximum Rock n’ Roll of someone selling the CD that I bought a copy from. I believe it was U-Ron because he sent me a free extra sleeve for the “New Strings…” EP as well as the CD. I think the person selling it was in Seattle. A few questions- did the “Crowd Control” 7″ really go unreleased until 1987 or 1988? Also, I heard a rumor many years ago that the only reason this “Crowd Control” 7″ surfaced was because an old member (which one?) had a drug problem and needed some cash flow- can anyone confirm/deny this? Maybe just a nasty rumor. In 1994, I remember seeing the “Crowd Control” 7″ listed in one of those massive Subterranean Records catalogs for $10 (!). Of course I tried to get a copy but this was before the “information superhighway” was prevalent, so by the time I snail-mailed an order form to them they were sold out. Oh well.
I don’t know if Crowd Control really wasn’t released until 87 or 88 – BUT I do remember very well that all of a sudden, this record was floating around! Ca. 85, one of my top wants was the “New Strings” 7″ which was tough to find back then. I used to communicate a lot with collectors and nobody ever mentioned the first two 7″s. Besides the 4th 7″, the “Despise Moral Majority” 7″ was known and the two LP’s – and that was it.
In the mid 90s quite a batch of “Crowd Control” 7″s turned up (like it did with many other rare records! That’d be an interesting story to do soome research on!). That where I got mine from – a perfectly mint copy which cost me like 12$. “Modern Needs” was always the hardest to find, I think – in the 90s, it went to up over 300$. I traded mine for a Mets 12″ which was a good deal, I think.
Ah, thanks for the info. The first time I heard Really Red was in ‘89 when “Modern Needs” was on KBD #4. So I would have missed out on when the “Crowd Control” 7″ started floating around a few years earlier. A mint copy for around $12 is great. Like I said, Subterranean had them for $10 but I missed out. I would have traded the Mets 12″ for a “Modern Needs” 7″ too. Interesting that the “New Strings” EP was tough to find in ‘85 just a few years after it came out.
I think the “sped up” version may have been from Deep in the Throat of Texas reissue, but I can’t really tell the difference much. Great stuff, I’ve posted New Strings For Old Puppets
Eric is correct, that’s what I ripped it from. I’ll be interested to see if I notice a difference between the original and the reissue. Or maybe Peter just has really good ears?
Just compare the two tracks and you’ll hear it :). The song length differs too.
E, i noticed that too. I noticed the same with the New Strings EP. I got a perfect mint copy in the late 90s. I also saw mint copies of the Crowd Control ep.
I liked Really Red since let them eat jellybeans(what a great comp?) came out,25 years later and i own all of their stuff ‘cept the live 7″,I was surpised when i bought my modern needs for $30 a few years ago,New strings was about $20-but in the last few years all ushc has gone thru the roof,at least these are good records.
doh!i ment new strings for $30..i’m an adult fuck-up!
doh!i m giving up!
Thank you for this! Heard “crowd control” on a comp (prob KBD) and just was amazed. Why is so much HC all 4/4 or 2/4? The brilliance of Void and other early hardcore bands with phrasing, not just simple riffs, is strangely lacking from most of the late 80s and 90s. I blame Metal.
Hello. I’m looking for the lyrics for teenage fuckup.
Any one got any ideas?
[...] joint venture with my fellow Blogger Peter from KBD-Records (the last one was so extremely succesfull, haha). Go to his site and you’ll get the first [...]
[...] Killed by Death Records and Good Bad Music had done a REALLY RED split post before and when we discussed our next shared effort in honor of this impossible-too-overrate band from Texas, we got a bit in an argument over who would post what. Well, since Peter doesn’t house the live 7″ I had to give in. But the good news were – upon ripping this, I realized that it’s much better than I had remembered it from giving it a spin maybe twice in 20 years. The experimental edge really comes through nicely and sets REALLY RED totally apart. I always had the highest respect for their artistic approach of combining Punk, Hardcore and avantgardist elements, melting all together with highly socio-political lyrics of quite some literary quality (the song “Teaching you the Fear” runs shivers down my back every time I hear it – it sums up all said parts). So here’s the rare live 7″ nobody really digs that much, while Peter posts the most Hardcore sounding record of REALLY RED, the notorious “New Strings for old Puppets” EP. Enjoy, especially those who haven’t heard the band before. Wonderful hand printed sleeve, 500 – 1000 copies made (my guess). A box full of mint copies surfaced in the early 90s, just like the first REALLY RED 7″ did. I could get one for a couple $ to replace my old beat up copy (very thin paper sleeve that easily gets damaged and dirty). [...]
i was in a little punk band in Houston in the late 70s – the degenerates. U-Ron Ronnie Bond – and to some extent Kelly Younger, Trish Herrera (MyDolls), and a few other 30-years-old-ish types took me – then just 16 – under their wings.
I remember buying crowd control at ronnie’s record store when it first opened back in 79 (or really early 80?).
He quit selling them before they were sold out and said that he thought it was a fatally flawed piece of shit.
I TOTALLY disagree. Having opened for them dozens and dozens of times and seen them probably literally more than 100 times, that record captured a perspective on the band that no other recording does. If you can kind of mush it together with later records, you have a better picture of what they really sounded like.
I LOVE the band, and so delighted to own all their vinyl. But still… I remember my girlfriend and me checking their set list to see when “Aim Tastes Good” was going to come on cuz we couldn’t wait… but it lost some of it’s vigor in the studio. I dunno. As good as the LPs and singles are, they completely blew them away every time they played.
I wrote U-Ron a year or two ago…. after going broke opening a seattle record store, he worked at someone else’s for a while but then left… held odd jobs… currently he’s living a kind of a ‘back-to-nature’ existence on an island in the Sound and seems very happy and content.
They were definitely one of the greatest bands I have ever seen live! I agree with you…although the records are great, their live performances were incredible. Thanks for the update on U-Ron.
Wasn´t the 1st REALLY RED 7″ already had been recorded in 1978 ? Does the “New Strings For Old Puppets” come with an insert,at least partially?
Hey Tom of DEGENERATES: “Slungy girl” is my fave from the 7″ep. I have the sleeve ONLY,not the actual record. The sleeve has hand-writings on the back-sleeve,description´s to each song!
A few years back I spoke to Wade Driver,I guess it was even Mr.W.D.,sr! He was then living in Arizona if my memory serves well.
And as EV Rec´s “Deep In The Throat Of Texas” compilation LP says in its liners: “REALLY RED ARE THE BEST TEXAS PUNK BAND EVER.PERIOD.”
I think U-Ron has/had a myspace – site ?!
Never seen a lyric insert with “New Strings”, but mine has a label add with some handwritten words on the back: “it was rainin when I came in”.
Anyone have the lyrics to this 7″? They came with the “Deep In The Throat Of Texas comp.”…Post em if you got em please.