Helen Keller - S/T 7″
January 27th, 2008 at 4:45 am
No matter what folks say or write about how great the Helen (Erich) Keller record is. You’ll never get it until you listen to it. As you might hear it’s not some gutter punks fooling around in the studio. These guys have some real talent and knows exactly what they’re doing. It could’ve resulted in some so so jumping on the bandwagon record but no no they manage to crank out the exact right feeling. I wonder what they wanted to achieve with this release? 200 copies pressed with a white stamped sleeve. Did they just want to hand it out to friends and family to show off that they could play punk too?
Ryan has digged out some info:”The “band” was the demented brainchild of a man who mainly produced commercial jingles for a living, Norman Durkee. Some of Seattle’s persistent rain had obviously soaked through his skull and settled on his brain, and a “speed punk” concept developed. Friends and acquaintances from the “studio scene” were brought in to play.”
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: Blitz
Format: 7″
Songs:
Surfin With Steve And E.D. Amin.mp3
Dump On The Chump.mp3
January 27th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Thanks for posting this, I’d never heard it before, and it caused chronic bonerz.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am
You’re welcome Jerk Ass. Helen Keller a punk rockers Viagra?
January 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
It most certainly is
January 27th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Surfin’ is a fantastic song! We all know who Idi Amin is, but who the hell is Steve?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Fucking killer, one of the best 7″s I ever heard! I only wonder what the story is behind all these copies on ebay in the past month or so.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I heard there was a French guy named Pierre who found a box of 10 copies in some small village in the south of France.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Some Durkeeana, courtesy of “George from Ottawa”: “A fellow by the name of Norman Durkee plays piano on this song. The story behind his performance on the song is that Mr. Durkee was a pizza delivery guy who dropped into the wrong studio with a pizza (apparently that had been ordered by Steve Miller who reportedly was in another studio in the building) and he commented to Randy Bachman that the song needed some spicing up with a bit of honky-tonk-like piano and he showed Randy what he had in mind. BTO decided to give the idea a try and liked it and made the recording with Mr. Durkee. He gets piano-playing credit for the song on the album cover.”
Good Lord.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Sorry, I was so shocked that I forgot to mention that “this song” refers to is “Takin’ Care of Business,” recorded for BTO II in Seattle in 1973.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
And this has something to do with Helen Keller?
January 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Man,
do you have Buzz, Jeff Hill Band and Sneeky Pete?
January 28th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Sometimes, you just gotta say “fuck”
January 29th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Fuck!
January 31st, 2008 at 8:26 am
Never heard this. Fuck! What a great record, thanks!
February 6th, 2008 at 9:27 am
just found this site and love it… this song… amazing! I have to find it myself
March 14th, 2008 at 12:36 am
this record is a fucking ripper. i spent 6 months in seattle and saw no hellen keller for me to find. the copies going up on ebay must have been in somebodys basement a long time. and i totally would have bought those up had i been at that yardsale… now im in LA, anybody got an opus 45 they dont want?