Crawdads of Pure Love (1990?)

Chip Cohen - Bass, Fiddle, Vocals
Dave Hicks - Guitar, Vocals
Ken Sokolov - Drums, Percussion
Chuck White - Guitar, Vocals

Never saw these guys although I do recall seeing their posters around town. This is another one that comes to us courtesy of Erich Boekelheide. Don't know too much about them, anyone? Not sure whether or not this was their only release. Anyone have any flyers?

Electric (1990, Cassette Only)

1. Trouble
2. The Bus Song
3. Slow Suicide
4. 5 O'Clock Cat in 6
5. Long Overdue Goodbye

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Snakepit (1984-1990)

Al Larson - Guitar/Vocals

Mike Johnson - Guitar/Vocals

Robert Christie (RIP) - Drums/Vocals

Joe Argast - Bass/Vocals

Laura McDougall - Bass on "Tonight's the Night"

Barely know where to start with this one. Snakepit were one of Eugene's finest bands. John O'Neil talked me into forking over $3.00 to purchase this back in '85 never having heard the band. This tape, along with the first two Johnson Unit tapes and the lone Moose Lodge cassette began my obsession with obtaining every Eugene demo possible. To this day, I don't understand how Snakepit failed to become absolutely huge. The music speaks for itself and I'm eternally grateful to Mike Johnson for allowing me to share this with you.

Snakepit - Soul Like a Goat (1985)

1. Wedding Train

2. Rachel

3. You Tell Me

4. A Short Narrative

5. Me & Mine

6. Sunrise

7. All Nerves

8. Still Haunts Me

9. Wishing Well

10. Waiting For You

11. Tonight's the Night (Live)

12. Art Song (bonus track)

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Mike Johnson - Guitar/Vocals

Laura McDougall - Bass

Robert Christie - Drums/Vocals

This second cassette only release came out in '87 and was engineered by Ron Synovitz who was also kind enough to re-master it! This is the first time the recording has been available here and it's long overdue. Billy Karren was on the verge of joining the band and actually played on some of the live material that filled out the side but the studio tracks are just Mike, Robert & Laura. Hopefully I can get Ron to share some stories about this recording, will update accordingly.

Snakepit - From Vegas to Memphis (1987)

1. Party
2. Turn Around
3. From the Start
4. Sagetown
5. Important
6. A Smile
7. TV Eye (Live)

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Mike Johnson - Guitar/Vocals

Billy Karren - Guitar/Vocals

Laura McDougall - Bass

Robert Christie - Drums/Vocals

At long last, here is the first Snakepit single! The band had previously released two cassettes (Soul Like a Goat, already posted on this blog and From Vegas to Memphis, coming soon) but his was the first time the band had committed anything to vinyl. The tracks were recorded in '88 at Smegma in Portland with Mike Lastra. I heard many years ago that they recorded 7 tracks at the session but the 4 posted here are all I have. If anyone can confirm that additional tracks were recorded please email me, especially if you have the songs! Don't feel like I need to type much about this record, it speaks for itself and you should have already clicked the download link before you even read this far.

Snakepit - Wait ('88)

1. Wait

2. Disease

3. Susanville

4. Decay (bonus track originally appeared on Positively 13th St. compilation cassette)

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Mike Johnson - Guitar/Bass/Vocals
Laura McDougall - Bass
Robert Christie - Drums/Vocals

This was the final release by Snakepit although it was not the last material they recorded. Released in 1990 by Dunghill I can't even remember if the band was still playing live at the time with Joe Preston on bass. The front cover is an ominous photo of Robert walking in his burned down apartment at 951 Patterson. The night the place burned Snakepit was supposed to be playing a show at the EMU Dining Hall, it would have been the first time they'd played Eugene in months. The tracks on this post were all recorded at Gung Ho and it's strange to hear the band in the kind of clarity that Gung Ho provides. I wish they'd recorded many many albums but after this there was only the unreleased Eeyore.

 Snakepit - Waste 7" + Bonus Tracks (1990)


1. Waste
2. Million
3. Say It's So (Originally appeared on 13th St. Revisited cassette comp)
4. Rot (Unreleased)
5. Searching For a Five (Unreleased)
6. Finger In Judgement (Unreleased)
7. Lovers Understand (Unreleased, Robert Sings!)

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Mike Johnson - Vocals, Guitar, Bass (?)
Robert Christie - Drums, Vocals

This unreleased album was the last studio stuff Snakepit recorded. I believe this was all done at Gung-Ho Studios in 1989 and I'm not sure if Laura was still around to play bass on these tracks, I think it was just Mike and Robert by this point. Not much to say, this should have come out over 20 years ago but for a variety of reasons, that never happened. When I asked Mike's permission to post this, he said sure although he couldn't "imagine that anyone would want to hear it." Please let him know he was wrong about that in the comments. Many of these songs later appeared in different form on Mike's solo albums, I guess that makes this sort of like Snakepit's V.U. or Another View?

Snakepit - Eeyore (Unreleased '89)

1. Home Ground
2. Impatient & Unwilling
3. You're Alive
4. Separation
5. Giving Up on Time
6. Passed By
7. F.M.D.
8. Another Time
9. Slipping Away
10. A Reason
11. Obvious
12. Victim

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The Headhunters (1983-85)

Matt Griffin - bass
Dave Flanagan - drums
Paul Chandler - guitar
Nelson de Sae Silva - guitar/vocals

I never saw the Headhunters but they are the first local band I ever remember hearing on KRVM. "Anorexia" was something of a local hit I suppose. I don't think any of the recordings below were ever released but as always, feel free to correct me.


From the Panic on 13th Yahoo group (Joe Lewis?):

"Started as a punkabilly trio composed of Coos Bay transplants, opened for Los Falcons added Nelson and went poppy. Played The Vatican, beer gardens, Max's etc.  Recorded "Anorexia"; and others (played on KRVM-good review in The Rocket in '84)  Went to Austin in summer '85 -played Liberty Lunch and opened for The Hickoids and Wild Seeds."

From Robert Shepard who was kind enough to supply the recordings here:

"A member of drummer Flanagan's family owned a really nice recording studio in the woods upriver a few miles from Coos Bay, on the west fork of the Millicoma, called Tioga Recording Studio. This was recorded and mixed there."

Headhunters (Untitled Tioga Studio tape, 1985)
1. Anorexia
2. Push and Shove
3. The Horrible Color
4. Printed Blue
5. Walk in Light
6. The Point Is
7. Celsius
8. Jet Plane

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Headhunters (Texas Tape, 1985)
1. What We've Done Here
2. Borneo
3. Cut from Stone
4. Walk in Light
5. Jet Plane
6. Heights Baptist

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The Batcows (1988-1989)

Patrick Yonally - Guitar/Vocals
Brent Karnes - Bass/Vocals
Erinn Fralich - Drums
Joe McCargar - Guitar/Vocals

The Batcows were around in the late 80's for a little over a year, they relocated to Eugene from Grants Pass when the entire band enrolled at the U of O. My first not-so-great band The Exploding Cats used to play regularly with these guys at house parties all over campus. I recorded this demo on a 4-track in the living room of Patrick's apartment. I think it sounds pretty good considering that towards the end Joe was so drunk we had to lean him against a wall to play his parts.  Favorite part was that Patrick had wired headphones into a football helmet and the vocals were all performed with that on. I think this is all that has survived, there were a few additional songs recorded but the master is long gone. The tape was eventually released by Patrick about a year after the band broke up but I don't have the cover art. Patrick?

The Batcows - F is for Fred (1989)

1. No Fun Tonight
2. Hell
3. Do You Ever Wonder Why?
4. You're Almost More Important
5. Green Felt
6. Everywhere I Go
7. Options
8. Life, Death or Whatever
9. You Don't Understand
10. So What
11. Purport Animation

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Live in Grants Pass (1988)

1. Intro
2. Life, Rain and the Terrible Thing
3. Intro
4. Peace of Mind
5. I Love You
6. Hell
7. Strange Days
8. Tonight

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Carrion Commandos (1983-1986)

V'sar 23 - Vocals
Breo Nebraska - Drums
Ziggy Fasternation - Bass
DMT - Guitar
Mott Madanav - Keyboards?

This must be the strangest of the Eugene tapes I own. In the past, I've described the Carrion Commandos as a band one might listen to while committing homicide. Creepy stuff, this was originally released in 1983 and I'm told the original packaging included a few strands of band members' pubic hair. I bought my copy off a punk rock guy named Tom who happened to have the tape with him when the subject came up. Thankfully, the copy I bought didn't include everything the tape originally came with. Lead singer Vsar 23 used to live in the basement apartment of the house I lived in while I went to college. Once, my downstairs neighbor went down to the basement to complain about the noise level and Vsar growled at her like a dog until she freaked out and left. I guess that sort of mindset explains much of what is going on here although nothing could explain the combination of drugs they must have been on to think doing a parody of I Eat Cannibal was a good idea.

I CAN HEAR AMERICA FRYING

1. I Must Kill

2. Everybody's Gonna Die Tonight

3. Dawn of Nothing

4. Drooling Idiot

5. I Dump In My Sleep

6. The Boob Song

7. A.N.U.S.

8. Green Piss

9. The Day My Dick Broke Off

10. Free Hunky Dunky

11. Under the Bed

12. Maggots

13. Two Bobs West

14. Money

15. I Eat Carrion

16. Dawn Polka Patrol

17. Die Die Die

Download includes entire booklet that came with original cassette!

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UNRELEASED RECORDINGS

FROG WARS, ETC.

No idea when these were recorded or who was in the band at this point. Thanks to Robert Shepard for sending these my way though.

1. Frog Wars

2. Unknown Title

3. Unknown Title

4. Unknown Title

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THE SOUND 'O MEAT

Same as above, thanks again to Robert!

1. Intro

2. It's Raining Meat

3. Joe's Blob

4. AIDS

5. Zero Hour

6. AIDS

7. Noirrac Sodnammac

8. Self-Regulation II 

9. Three Dances

10. Treated Like Shit

11. Uruk (Cities of Iron & Fire)

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REHEARSALS & DEMOS

Again, no idea on the year or the personnel but thank you to Patrick Neve for the recordings!

1. The Growler

2. Louie Louise

3. This is a Very Funky Sing - This is Shit

4. Ay Ay Ay Ay

5. Dawn Patrol Polka (several takes)

6. I Must Kill (rehearsal)

7. Joined at the Head

8. Six Fingers

9. Bed

10. Other Music

11. Die Die Die (several takes)

12. Granny Had an Abcess

13. Die Die Die

14. Die Die Die (falsetto)

15. Gimme Gimme Gimme

16. Ah Stinks

17. Gonna Make a Scene

18. Two Bobs West

19. Mother That's DIRT You're Eating

20. Death on My Breath

21. Bed (reprise)

22. Cop in Front of My House

23. Dead Meat

24. Running Naked to New Jersey

25. ___

26. Tiny Man From Georgia

27. I Don't Like Vegetables

28. It Gets Very Lonely Out Here

29. Hot Rod America

30. ____ (2)

31. The Future is Breathing Down Your Neck

32. The Future is Like, Nothing

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CARRION COMMANDOS ON KRVM

More from Patrick Neve!

1. It's Raining Meat

2. Joe's Blob

3. AIDS

4. Zero Hour

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None If Any (198?-198?)

Cam Hauck (R.I.P.)

I never saw this band but remember hearing their name and seeing flyers around town. Mid-80's? All photos and the demo are once again courtesy of Erich Boekelheide, guess I'll have to try to get more info on the band out of him, there may be video! Not sure if the demos below were ever officially released. Anyone with more information please speak up!

None If Any

1. Toothless Girl
2. Beat My Kitty
3. Laundry For Fun
4. Surf Kill
5. Wrong Rhumba

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J. Gallows & the Executioners (1980-81)

Julie Hodge - Guitar/Vocals
Madjym (R.I.P.) - Bass
Mark Cummings - Drums/Xylophone

Before we even get started, a sincere thank you to Joe Lewis for the pictures and to Erich Boekelheide for recording the demos, holding on to them for all these years and finally for sharing them. These are the first demos I've been able to uncover from the small first wave of Eugene punk influenced bands. I didn't think I'd ever be able to turn up recordings like this.  This also marks the first band to make the format change on this blog which will be each band having their own page with all available recordings and pictures. Figured it's easier to add more recordings/pictures as they surface and keep things a bit tidier.

Julie Hodge was J. Gallows and evidently Madjym used to wear an executioner costume with a fencing mask covering his face. Mark Cummings left the band to attend college elsewhere and was replaced by Chuck Clearwater. At some point in the band's brief history ('80-'81) Madjym was also replaced by Bob Allen. I believe all recordings posted here are of the original lineup mentioned at the top of the page.

If anyone has additional recordings, pictures or stories about the band, please send them in!

Session 1 

1. Blood Back in My Eyes
2. Daddy's Girl
3. Got It On Paper
4. To Execute (false start)
5. To Execute
6. Dog Lady
7. Pave It
8. Pave It
9. Young Ones (no vocals)
10. Blood Back in My Eyes (no vocals)
11. (Mystery Roach)
12. Daddy's Girl (no vocals)
13. Boy With the Plastic Socks
14. Fat Rats (false start)
15. Fat Rats
16. All By Myself
17. Jack & Mary
18. Art Attack
19. Art Attack
20. Art Attack
21. Going To Your Party Tonight
22. To Execute
23. So Tired

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Session 2

1. Got It On Paper
2. To Execute (false start)
3. To Execute
4. Dog Lady
5. Heart Attack (false start)
6. Heart Attack
7. Pave It
8. Pave It
9. Young Ones (no vocals)
10. Blood Back in My Eyes
11. Mystery Roach
12. Daddy's Girl
13. The Boy With the Plastic Socks
14. Fat Rats (false start)
15. Fat Rats
16. All By Myself
17. Jack & Mary
18. Art Show
19. Blood Back in My Eyes
20. Daddy's Girl (no vocals)
21. Clique
22. To Execute
23. Meat on a Stick
24. Young Ones
25. Pithy Fetus - Slice & Dice
26. Walter Brennan - The Epic Ride of John Glenn

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Picture and Flyer Archive

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