Damned - Captain's demos + Strawberries demos

 More Damned demos by request. This time we have some of the Captain's demos from the years c.1978 to 1982 - Machine Gun Etiquette to Strawberries. There are a few interesting unreleased tracks and some untitled instrumentals that don't seem to have been used for anything. The quality is good on everything.

Captain's demos volume 1
01. Smash It Up pt1
02. Smash It Up pt2 (Sensible vocals)
03. Smash It Up pt3
05. Smash It Up (different lyrics - Sensible vocals)
06. Just Can't Be Happy Today
07. Lively Arts (Sensible vocals)
08. Curtain Call (instrumental)
09. History of The World (instrumental)
10. Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde (Sensible vocals)
11. Lovely Money (Sensible vocals)
12. Ignite (Vanian's vocal session)
13. I Think I'm Wonderful
14. Gun Fury (Sensible vocals)
15. untitled
16. 'Those Crazy Guys'
17. Life Goes On
19. Dozen Girls (instrumental)
20. untitled
21. untitled

Strawberries demos (1981)
01. Bad Time For Bonzo
02. instrumental (demo 1)
03. instrumental (demo 2)
04. instrumental
05. Where Have All The Adventures Gone
06. The Dog
07. Dozen Girls (demo #2)

Stranglers - Demos + Live 1974-1978

By request here are some Stranglers demos, and I've topped the post off with an early 1977 live show. Three songs - Wasted, Strange Little Girl, My Young Dreams (different recording than what's here) from the 1974 demo have been officially released on the The Early Years 74-75-76 Rare Live & Unreleased CD so I didn't include them here. Hans Wärmling also plays guitar on these songs. The quality of all the demos is very good. The live show was recorded from the audience and is a bit raw but listenable.

More info here: http://www.xulucomics.com/Pre.html
Strangles fanzine here: http://www.strangled.co.uk/Magazines.htm

1974 Demo
01. Charlie Boy
02. Chinatown
03. My Young Dreams
04. Shut Up

Foel Studio Demos, Wales 3-76
01. Peaches
02. Down In The Sewer
03. Bitching
04. Tomorrow Was The Hereafter (unreleased version)

1977 No More Heroes Demo
01. No More Heroes (Instrumental)

1978 Black And White Demo
01. Tank

@ Rock Garden, Middlesbrough 2-24-77
01. Grip
02. Sometimes
03. Bitching
04. School Mam
05. Peasant In The Big Shitty
06. Straighten Out
07. Hanging Around
08. Ugly
09. London Lady
10. Down In The Sewer
11. Something Better Change
12. Go Buddy Go (interrupted)
13. Go Buddy Go

Avengers - Live shows pt.4 - 1979

At the end of 1978 original Avengers guitarist left and was replaced by Brad Kent from Vancouver Canada who had been a past member of D.O.A. and a couple other bands.  On all these shows they are playing new songs co-written with Brad Kent. On the Geary Temple show the play the rare song Lonely Girl plus a Velvet Underground cover. The Geary and Mab shows are both audience recordings so the quality is a little rough but still listenable. The Old Waldorf show is a radio broadcast and tracks 3 to 11 have been officially released on the The American In Me CD so you should buy it for the superior sound quality. The sound quality here is good.

Brad Kent interview here: http://thepunkmovie.com/webisodes/avengers

@ Geary Temple, San Francisco 3-24-79 [from cassette tape]
01. Release Me
02. The American In Me
03. Lonely Girl [Steve Jones/Avengers]
04. Zero Hour
05. Corpus Christie
06. Cheap Tragedies
07. White Nigger
08. Uh Oh
09. Second To None [Steve Jones/Avengers]
10. I Believe In Me
11. Beginning To See The Light [Velvet Underground]
12. Car Crash

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 5-23-79 [from cassette tape]
01. Corpus Christie
02. The American In Me
03. Cheap Tragedies
04. Uh Oh
05. Zero Hour
06. Release Me
07. Misery (Finger On The Trigger)
08. White Nigger
09. Second To None [Steve Jones/Avengers]
10. I Believe In Me
11. We Are The One

@ Old Waldorf, San Francisco 6-13-79 [from cassette tape]
01. Second To None [Steve Jones/Avengers]
02. White Nigger
03. Cheap Tragedies
04. Zero Hour
05. Uh Oh
06. Corpus Christi
07. Release Me
08. The Misery (Finger On The Trigger)
09. Time To Die
10. The American In Me

Avengers - Live shows pt.3 - 1978 (continued)

Here's three more Avengers shows from 1978. I only have these two songs from this Mab show and have never been able to track down the complete show. The Whiskey show is a little special because it has the rare songs Night Ride and Flames Of Evil plus an Eddie Cochran cover and also an extended jam on I Want In. The song Flames of Evil is the same music as the song on the Died For Your Sins CD titled Something's Wrong but with different lyrics. The Aito's show is also special because of some rare songs. On October 23, 1978 The Avengers were in the studio recording 4 songs with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. Out of that collaboration The Avengers added two Steve Jones songs to their set - Second To None (recorded by The Professionals as 1,2,3) and Lonely Girl (recorded by Steve Jones and Paul Cook as Lonely Boy for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack). And, there is also the mystery track Promised Land. All three shows were recorded from the audience but the sound is good on all of them.

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 6-04-78 [from cassette tape]
01. No Martyr
02. We Are The One

@ Whiskey, Hollywood 8-04-78 (2nd Set) [from cassette tape]
01. We Are The One
02. Night Ride
03. Flames Of Evil
04. Desperation
05. I Want In
06. Money [Barrett Strong]
07. Uh Oh
08. Thin White Line
09. The American In Me
10. White Nigger
11. Open Your Eyes
12. I Believe In Me
13. C'mon Everybody [Eddie Cochran]
14. Car Crash

@ Aito's, Berkeley CA 10-27-78 [from cassette tape]
01. The American In Me
02. Open Your Eyes
03. Uh Oh
04. No Martyr
05. Lonely Girl [Steve Jones/Avengers]
06. Thin White Line
07. Promised Land
08. End Of The World
09. White Nigger
10. Second To None [Steve Jones/Avengers]
11. I Believe In Me
12. C'mon Everybody [Eddie Cochran]
13. Car Crash

Avengers - Live shows pt.2 - 1978

 Four live Avengers shows here from the first half of 1978. All songs here have seen the light of day on various records and CDs apart from the cover of The Who's Substitute and a mystery song called Run. At the Winterland show they opened for The Sex Pistols and is a radio broadcast. The other three shows are audience recordings and are all good quality. The date or the venue on the fourth show is incorrect as it doesn't match with the Avengers gigography: http://www.penelope.net/avshows.html
But I'll list it as I received it.

The Winterland show can be listened to here in top quality with the complete last track: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-avengers/concerts/winterland-january-14-1978.html

@ Winterland, San Francisco 1-14-78
01. The American In Me
02. Desperation
03. Paint It Black [Rolling Stones]
04. Friends Of Mine
05. Open Your Eyes
06. No Martyr
07. Teenage Rebel
08. Crazy Homicide
09. End Of The World
10. Summer Of Hate
11. We Are The One
12. I Believe In Me
13. Car Crash (cut)

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 2-26-78 [from cassette tape]
01. Teenage Rebel
02. Open Your Eyes
03. No Martyr
04. Friends Of Mine
05. White Nigger
06. Desperation
07. End Of The World
08. The American In Me
09. Substitute [The Who]
10. We Are The One
11. I Believe In Me
12. Jokers Wild [Ventures]
13. Paint It Black [Rolling Stones]
14. Car Crash
15. Crazy Homicide

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 4-28-78 [from cassette tape]
01. The American In Me
02. Open Your Eyes
03. No Martyr
04. Friends Of Mine
05. Thin White Line
06. Desperation
07. The Good The Bad The Kowalskis
08. White Nigger
09. Teenage Rebel
10. We Are The One
11. I Believe In Me
12. Run
13. Car Crash

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 5-14-78 [from cassette tape]
01. Thin White Rope
02. Money [Barrett Strong]
03. White Nigger
04. Open Your Eyes
05. No Martyr
06. The Good The Bad And The Kowalskis
07. The American In Me
08. Teenage Rebel
09. Desperation
10. We Are The One
11. Car Crash
12. Joker's Wild [Ventures]
13. Paint It Black [Rolling Stones]

Avengers - Live shows pt.1 - 1977

Here's the Avengers recorded live at the end of 1977 on a show opening for Talking Heads. The Liars were the other opening band. This is recorded from the audience but the sound is very good.

Avengers gigography here: http://www.penelope.net/avshows.html
James Wilsey interview here: http://www.juicemagazine.com/JAMESWILSEYTHEAVENGERS.html




@ Keystone, Palo Alto CA 12-10-77
01. Desperation
02. We Are The One
03. I Believe In Me (on Died For Your Sins CD)
04. Paint It Black [Rolling Stones]

Bags - Live Shows 1978-1979

The Bags from Los Angeles were around from 1977 to 1981 and in that time only released a single in 1978 on Dangerhouse Records and had one song on a Dangerhouse compilation LP besides making an appearance in the film The Decline Of Western Civilization in 1980. Until the All Bagged Up album was released in 2007 all the bags we had to listen to, besides the single, was just a couple of live tapes that made the rounds. The Masque show is the only complete set ever in circulation and it was recorded from the audience so the quality is rough but listenable especially for the unreleased songs. The Hong Kong Cafe show is much better in quality and a good listen but still recorded from the audience. The Troubadour show is off of a video and is rough also but still fun to listen to.

@ Troubadour, Hollywood 2-05-78
01. Violent Girl
02. TV Dinner
03. We Will Bury You
04. Happy Song
05. Chainsaw
06. Animal Call
07. Survive

@ Masque, Hollywood 12-31-78 [from cassette tape]
01. title unknown
02. Violent Girl
03. Myths
04. title unknown
05. title unknown
06. title unknown
07. Babylonian Gorgon
08. We Don't Need The English
09. title unknown
10. title unknown
11. title unknown + Chainsaw
12. Sanyo Theme [on Disco's Dead ep]
13. TV Dinner
14. Survive
15. We Will Bury You
16. title unknown

@ Hong Kong Cafe, LA 8-14-79 [from cassette tape]
01. White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane]
02. Babylonian Gorgon
03. Why Tomorrow [on Disco's Dead ep]
04. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) [Standels]
05. Why Tomorrow
06. In Love With Romance
07. Babylonian Gorgon