Pollen Count - (Cassette Only Compilation, '92, Amacha Productions)

At long last, here is the Pollen Count compilation I've been promising to post for months. Thank you all for your patience! This was released in '92 by Mike Amacha (aka Mike Healy). At the time, I remember being surprised that I hadn't heard of half the bands on this thing. Since I've started the blog and the facebook page I now know that as large as my collection is, I barely scratched the surface of all the music going on in Eugene. Was/is there a single resident of the town between the ages of 20 and 60 that wasn't in a band at some point? Hopefully Mike can chime in with details regarding some of the bands. I do know that Pine Box eventually led to Kpants and that Otterpop was bunny summer on a day when we thought about changing our name. I remember the Big I Am releasing a tape which I now really wish I'd picked up, forgot how much I liked their track on this thing. Please email me if you've got it!

Pollen Count ('92, Amacha Productions)

1. Medicine Wheel - Hold the Grudge

2. Adickdid - All-American Girl

3. Otto - R.P.

4. Jollymon - Tolusa

5. Dead Legion - Chosen Sin

6. Holy Rodent - Guns-Guitars-n-VCR's

7. Oswald Five-O - Preyed Upon

8. Treatment - Jesus 4 Sale

9. Beradino - When I Was Hot

10. Runtmeyer - Apple Juice

11. Saw God - Is This

12. Poiligator - Death Rattle

13. The Undertakers - I Tried

14. Otterpop (aka bunny summer) - Crush

15. Big I Am - Colt 45

16. Aunt Flow - Creature

17. Pine Box - Not Kind

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13th St. Revisited (Cassette Compiliation, 1990)

This third cassette only compilation in the 13th St. series was the first released by Disgraceland Recordings. The tape came out in 1990 and was put together by Brett Morse, Patrick Yonally and Jeff Cellers. Dunghill was working on a third 13th St. compilation at the time and decided to throw in the towel. They gave Disgraceland the tapes they'd collected up to that point and wished us luck.

13th St. Revisited (1990)

1. Sport of Kings - Michael Billings

2. Santa Monica - The Davenports

3. The Golden Dagger - Christopher Cook

4. Long Distance - George Lane

5. Post - Willy Vlautin

6. People Believe - Uncle Charlie

7. 7/26/1989 - Agrosoul

8. Dog - Steve Nordby

9. Double-You - Patrick Yonally

10. Robot Square Dance - Dogwater

11. Say It's So - Snakepit

12. Blue/Driving - Now William

13. Spread the Love - Prairie School

14. Flying Pig - Infradig

15. Dog - Oswald Five-O

16. On Track - Mike Johnson

17. Alien - Mona Lisa Overdrive

18. Sing For Your Soul - Superchrist

19. Teenage Brain Surgeon - The Cherry Poppin' Daddies

20. Name of the Game - The Black Dahlias

21. Don't Crowd Me - The Falling Spikes

22. Sick and Tired (Sans You) - Dead River

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Positively 13th St. (Cassette Only Compilation, 1988)

The second and last of the Dunghill Recordings cassette compilations was released in early 1988. Even more bands than appeared on Panic on 13th, still with no place to play regularly. This tape was sort of the end of an era in Eugene music, most of the bands that were playing between 1983 and 1988 had broken up or were on the verge of it by 1989. A bunch of former high school kids who listened to the bands on this tape were now college brats and would start up a whole crop of new bands to keep the Eugene "scene" going into the mid-90's (check out 13th St. Revisited and Slaughter on 13th to hear these bands). I think it was mid-1989 by the time Max's actually started letting these types of bands play their venue. Not being all-ages, it wasn't ideal but it was better than anything we'd had before. The link has been revised to include Snakepit, thank you Mike for permission.

Positively 13th St. (1988)

1. Babe the Big Blue Ox - Bovine Impulse

2. Decay - Snakepit

3. Secondary Importance - Uncle Charly

4. Tour of Eugene - Zombie Toolshed

5. It's So Dark - Bottled Hungarian

6. Irish Temper - The Flatlanders

7. Long Way to Go - Heather Perkins

8. Glass Jar - Clear My Name

9. Someone In My Eyes - The Bel-Airs

10. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight - Christopher Cook & Monica Casagrande

11. Postcard - John O'Neil

12. Jean Waits - Some Velvet Sidewalk

13. Crayons - Some Velvet Sidewalk

14. Lost Again - Bigg Katt

15. Ghost Town - Mind Garage

16. I Throw a Fit - Throwing Jones

17. Make Me Pretty - Piledriver

18. Melted Black Plastic - Bovine Impulse

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Panic on 13th (Cassette Only Compilation, 1986)

The first of several cassette-only Eugene compilations came out in 1986 courtesy of our friends at Dunghill Recordings. Many of the participants played in multiple bands on the tape and it's still surprising that there were this many bands at the time considering that there were ZERO venues for them to perform at on a regular basis. That situation didn't right itself for about 4 more years by which point every band that appears here was finished although Rawhead Rex and Uncle Charlie were pretty much Bovine Impulse and Johnson Unit with different names. This tape sold dozens of copies and was the start of it all! This updated post now includes the Snakepit tracks as Mike Johnson has given the blog a thumbs up!

Some notes from Steve Nordby aka Bobby Brady aka the guy who mastered stuff for Dunghill:

"Dunghill grew out of an idea of Al Larson to put together a tape of Eugene bands. We just asked friends to contribute.

The Dunghill investors were Al, Rob, John, and me. We all lost money.

"Panic on 13th" is raw and sweet and lovely and *the* Eugene sound that you hear echoes of decades later.

The Johnson Unit stuff here isn't anywhere else. "What Makes" is loaded with movie titles. (how many can you find). "Can't Afford it It" was a *very* early recording and the tape runs off the reel at the end.

I was impressed with Mind Garage, although I don't think I'd seen them before this compilation.

Saint Huck - It doesn't get any better! Steve P started Snakepit, then Saint Huck, then Cherry Poppin Daddies. To me, Saint Huck makes the rest footnotes. Steve's melodies with Dan Schmidt bass = greatness!

Bovine Impulse - Probably the best Eugene proto-band.

E-13 - Legendary. Too much to say here.

Mooselodge - Yeah!"

Panic on 13th (1986)

1. All Nerves - Snakepit

2. Short Narrative - Snakepit

3. Me & Mine - Snakepit

4. Long Ways Gone - Mind Garage

5. Witching Hour - Mind Garage

6. Another Journey By Bus - Johnson Unit

7. What Makes - Johnson Unit

8. Can't Afford It - Johnson Unit

9. Roseland - Saint Huck

10. Both - Saint Huck

11. (Have You Felt the) Bovine Impulse - Bovine Impulse

12. This Fascist Thing - Bovine Impulse

13. Eat Sleep Work Fuck - Bovine Impulse

14. Big Parade - Moose Lodge

15. Granny Rabbit - Moose Lodge

16. Cheesehead Alert - E-13

17. Courage - Cargo Cult

18. Dominance - Billings Guitar Project

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Slaughter on 13th - A Eugene Compilation (Cassette Only, 1992)

This was the last cassette compilation I put out before I moved out of Eugene in early '93. It was the fourth in the series of 13th St. comps and the second released by Disgraceland. The one band from Boring, OR on the tape was Evil Twin Brother, for free downloads of everything they did click here. Greg Freeman did the typesetting, cover art by Wayne Shellabarger.

Slaughter on 13th

1. Why Can't I Be Your Pill - Evil Twin Brother

2. That Smell Downstairs - Something She Said

3. The One About Las Vegas - bunny summer

4. Cross Dressing Can Be a Drag - Boogie Patrol Express

5. Eggs - Blind Lemon Pledge

6. Sometimes - The Black Dahlias

7. The Rise - Marble Orchard

8. Poison - Oswald Five-O

9. E Flat E - Otto

10. Grandpa Ollie - Billy Jack

11. One Step Closer - The Undertakers

12. My Beloved Flock - Two Minutes Hate

13. Soaring - Now William

14. Love on the Ground - The Pearl Divers

15. Falling - Adickdid

16. Grip - Runtmeyer

17. Out of Touch - Marshall Plan

18. Motley's Tombstone - Compost

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The Way of Things - Live at the Calkins House 11/20/87 (Cassette Only, 1987)

The first release of live material recorded at the Calkins House. There are certainly far better notes on the tracks than on Cuneiform! More spoken word, acoustic type performances, all recorded November 20th, 1987. Still no information on who put these out, anyone know?

Turns out someone did know:

"The Caulkins House shows were organized by the BigTime Poetry Theatre. The track notes were most likely written by Curt Hopkins. I think the shows were recorded by Steve McQuiddy and Mike Winckler. I seem to remember that Steve had the tapes entered into the UO folklore collection . . . It was winter. The Caulkins House had not yet been remodeled into a restaurant, video store etc and thus was all peeling paint ceilings and holes in the walls. We swept up the dust and plaster chips, and procured some portable heaters which may or may not have had an effect on the temperature of the house. Dan ended the show with Amazing Grace. Then five or ten minutes later, everyone who was left cleaning or lingering did an amazing freezing a cappella reprise of the song."

Thanks to whoever it was that left this comment!

The Way of Things - Live at the Calkins House 1987

1. Animal Box - Robert Christie

2. You and Me - Marty Schrwarzbauer

3. Santa Margarita Ligure, Lover, Los Angeles - Bennett Huffman and John Walker

4. Gentlemen, Forever Yours - David Braden

5. Fridaynightrockdangerzone, Innocent Dead - Mike Winckler and Steve McQuiddy

6. Three Blue Teardrops - Debbie Nesbitt

7. Bulerias por Solea - Ian Beardsley

8. Honest Tom and Lyin' Tom and the 97 Apples - Jim Finley

9. Uncle Ray, Red Bowman, Sid Has No Horse, Socratic Dialogue I, Cat Story, SD II, After the Tear and Bite of City - Big Time Poetry Theatre

10. Recuerdos de Alhanbra - David Rodriguez Peralto

11. Sonnet Form, Thinking Back - Ken Zimmerman

12. Loose Change - Hershel Bloom

13. Amazing Grace - Dan Schmid

14. Amazing Grace - 13th Avenue Parking Lot Choir

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