Wasted Talent are another great Pennsylvania band that are not that well know. They were from State College PA and existed from 1981 to 1984. In 1983 they released a cassette album. Three songs from that tape were included on the Master Tape volume 2 compilation LP released in 1983. After the band split drummer Mick moved to Philadelphia and was a member of the band Oblivion who recorded one demo and bassist Greta moved to Richmond Virginia and was a member of Unseen Force with ex-members of White Cross. Wasted Talent are mentioned in the book American Hardcore and have a short interview piece in the America hardcore film. Today Mick is a respected poet with several books in print and Greta is a respected bass guitarist having played with Moby, Debby Harry and many others.
more info here: http://mikebegnal.blogspot.com/2010/12/wasted-talent.html
and here: http://www.myspace.com/greta_brinkman
Master Tape 2 here: http://www.kbdrecords.com/2006/07/24/master-tape-vol-ii-comp-2xlp-12/
Self Rule demo 1982 [from cassette tape]
01. Junta Man
02. Destroy Power
03. Not Anymore
04. Is That All
05. Ready To Riot
06. This Is Amerika
07. Off To War
08. Dog Days In The Lab
09. Poor Taste
10. Do You Really
11. Coming Right Now
12. Surf City [Jan & Dean]
@ Hub, State College PA 5-05-83 [from cassette tape]
01. I Hate Penn State
02. Animal Bondage [Art Attacks]
@ Rehearsal 10-21-83 [from cassette tape]
01. Blitzkrieg Bop [Ramones]
02. Junta Man
03. Off To War
04. Not Anymore
05. Sid's Leather Jacket
06. Dog Days In The Lab
07. Dog Days In The Lab
08. Boarding School
09. Boarding School
10. Glad I'm Not A Retard
11. WannaBe
12. This Could Help
13. This Could Help
14. title unknown
15. Stuck in a Hole
16. Stuck in a Hole
17. title unknown
Ahhh, Old forgotten Alma Matta from my old home state. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteCiao,
Elvis
Glad to see WT here. I was the drummer. A couple of things to point out -- The rehearsal tape is dated Oct. 21, 1983, NOT 1984. A couple of songs were also then recorded Dec. 4, 1983. That was the last recording of the band; we officially broke up in I think Jan. '84. I don't recognize the song title "This Could Help" -- perhaps I'm forgetting something, but I don't think we ever had a song called that. Other titles that were recorded on the basement tape but that I don't see listed here are "Clinical Killings", "Stuck in a Hole", and "Rage". Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Mick,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information. I got all these tapes from you back in the day but I lost the lyric sheet that went with the basement tape so couldn't remember all the titles.
Brett