BLACK RANDY & METRO SQUAD "Pass The Dust, I Think I'm Bowie" SEALED - 1ST PRESS

$

40

BLACK RANDY & THE METRO SQUAD

“PASS THE DUST, I THINK I’M BOWIE”

Dangerhouse     PCP-725

M / M

SEALED

FIRST PRESSING

ONLY SEALED COPY CURRENTLY ON EBAY AS OF 5-7-2017.  There are two copies posted that are NOT sealed for $75 and $114, incl. post. 

AMAAAAAZING !!!!!!!!

Absolutely stunning copy of this 1970s L.A. punk band that favored psycho-humorous tendencies and featured Sunset Strip sensibility.  LA favorites.

The band formed in Los Angeles in 1977 with Black Randy (born John Morris, January 5, 1952) as frontman, David Brown on keyboards, and other members including Pat Garrett on guitar. However, the band had a rotating line-up, which even included live back-up singers known as the Blackettes which often included Exene Cervenka (from X), Alice Bag, Lorna Doom, Belinda Carlisle (The Go Gos, solo), Jane Wiedlin(The Go Gos, solo), and featured several members of The Eyes.

Black Randy's lyrics gave him a reputation for being as witty as he was offensive with songs about porn, Marlon Brando, and Idi Amin. Their first single, "Trouble at the Cup", advocated fighting the police. He also covered James Brown's "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud". The band also covered various porn music themes from the 70s.

They released many vinyl singles and cassette tapes from 1977 onwards which were later compiled on an album called, Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie, which had sophisticated and even innovative musical arrangements that had more in common with post-punk than hardcore bands like Black Flag. This album led to the band being the most represented act on Dangerhouse Records, the label established by Brown and Garrett. This was the label's only album release, though this was not due to nepotism, but rather to bands with major-label aspirations worrying that being associated with Black Randy's offensive songs could jeopardize their chances of being signed. The band appeared in Lou Adler's 1981 satirical punk rock film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, performing "I Slept in an Arcade". Pass the Dust... was reissued in 2004 by Sympathy for the Record Industry, and as a double LP by Vinyl Countdown Records in 2009, including the original album, the Dangerhouse singles, demos, live material, and a Black Randy phone call. Several reissues were reeased in the 1990s/2000s. Recently, Frontier Records reissued the album in 2016 on transparent pink vinyl, including a digital download with the non-LP Dangerhouse singles as bonus tracks, with a limited cassette edition co-released with Burger Records.

The band imploded in mid-1982 when their frontman succumbed to drug and alcohol problems, which were evident in chaotic live shows, where songs were hardly sung and Brown tried, to no avail, to salvage the show. Black Randy died on November 11th, 1988 of complications from AIDS. He was portrayed by Chris Pontius in the film What We Do Is Secret, a biopic of Darby Crash.

Stored vertically in a smoke-free environment for 38 years.