SQUIRREL BAIT - Demo TAPE - 1984 - USA, Kentucky, Louisville

 Customized cassette for an old TAPE trading recording.

Here's a kind of "mistery" cause this cult band released two Demo TAPES before (repectively, 1982 and 1983) and both came with artworks.

 
So, the "mystery" is about this recording session which came without any info, tracklist or artwork, at least, in the old TAPE traders circle of that time.

 

It's a little bit different cause the band played a solid fast melodic hardcore punk, catchy and well produced (10 songs total). You can feel serious musical's achievements and some songs are fast, short, straight in the face, real "hits".

To be honest, it's sounding more like an unreleased studio recording, intended to be released on a 12" or a LP vinyl I assume, maybe a lost or abandoned recording session for some reasons...

Anyway, as I already wrote it, this old TAPE trading recording came to me without any tracklisting or artwork. But you can recognize both 1st songs as "Tense" and "Earth shattering" which are both the songs used on the side A for the "Motorola cloudburst" Pope Fanzine : 7" released in 1987.

 

You can see that I used a repro of this  7" cover to customize the artwork of the cassette. Any info, artwork or tracklist is welcome, thanks in advance...

Last thing : I didn't keep both 12"'s + the 7" vinyls released in the mid 80's cause I must admit that I was disappointed about, at that time, compared to their three Demo TAPES...

STATE OF ALERT : Demo TAPE - 1980 - USA, Washington DC

 Customized cassette for a very old TAPE trading recording.

Of course, this Demo TAPE isn't unreleased nowadays but it's very interesting to have the "true" TAPE version for some reasons...

About this specific recording, the main one (IMHO) is to notice a different tracklist order than the vinyl 7" version one, recently released on Dischord records.

Also, after all these years of TAPE trading, I had two different sources. Both are exactly the same versions + tracklist orders but, here again, it's interesting to save several sources (approximately with similar sound qualities...).

Last thing : I didn't keep the SOA bootleg 7" from 1993 cause the sound quality wasn't so good than my recording and it came with one song missing compared to the original master tape recording. But, at least, this US pressing bootleg deserves to have been made when it was difficult to find a lot of people dedicated in hardcore punk, but it's another story...