CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE Underground Babylon LP Artifix Dangerhouse Slash KBD Phranc
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CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE Underground Babylon LP Artifix Dangerhouse Slash KBD Phranc
Dead stock copy obtained directly from the label. Vinyl is in unplayed mint condition. Cover is VG+ but has small corner bump.
Pink vinyl edition. Comes with liner notes on an 11x14 sheet.
LAST COPY!!
Info re: this record below:
CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE started rehearsing around the end of August 1979. Forming the band was chiefly an idea between Claude Bessy, who was editor/writer extraordinaire of Slash Magazine, and Craig Lee, who was in the BAGS at the time and also a music writer. Claude wanted to be in a band, but could not play anything. Craig stepped in and offered to help Claude put the band together. The original idea behind the forming of the band was for members to use it as a vehicle from which to play an instrument that they were not accustomed to (Craig played bass for the BAGS, Robert played guitar in the ZEROS, etc…) and as a vehicle for Claude's writing…putting his poems into song. The band was also meant to be a vehicle for experimentation as the members had all been in early punk bands and wanted to try out newer post-punk type music and sounds.
Phranc from NERVOUS GENDER and Rick Brodey from the BPEOPLE quickly joined up as well as scene newcomer Richard Meade. This line up rehearsed several times in August and September before playing their debut gig on September 14, 1979 at the Hong Kong Café. The Hong Kong Café would become home base for most of this group's career. The band quickly garnered press from Slash and through Kristine McKenna of the Los Angeles Times.
After a few shows, Richard Meade would leave the band to be replaced by Robert Lopez (formerly of the ZEROS) who stayed with the band until the end. While Robert was with the band, they were invited to go on a tour of Europe with ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, but they turned the offer down. Around the same time, the band was filmed by Penelope Spheeris during several practices and finally filmed for their segment of 'The Decline of Western Civilization' at a Hong Kong Café show on January 19th, 1980. The band continued until the spring of 1980 when they finally disintegrated into different projects. The band only played in Los Angeles with the exception of one show in San Francisco. CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE are the only group to appear in the 'Decline' that never released a record of their own…until now.
THE RECORDINGS
Unfortunately for us Catholic Discipline never stepped foot inside a recording studio. The only recordings that exist of this band are live shows with the exception of "Pablo Picasso" live on KPFK, which is as close to a studio track as they got. The Oct/Nov. 1979 Hong Kong Café show and the January 19th, 1980 "Pablo Picasso" were both supplied by Richard Meltzer and were transferred from ¼" reels that are thought to have originally been recorded by Craig Lee. The January 19th, 1980 Hong Kong Café show was supplied by Philly Bessy and was transferred from a cassette copy. The Anti-Club show was supplied by a punk tape trader and was also transferred from a cassette copy. "Dejame Solo" and "No Soy Hemingway" are courtesy of RAEO. Please excuse any lapses in audio quality. We picked the best songs from the sources that we had available to us. We hope that someday some other recordings may surface, such as the rehearsal recordings and 'Decline' live outtakes that are supposed to exist (which we repeatedly tried to coax from Spheeris and Co.). For now, this CD is the prime document. It took us a year to collect, organize, and master this CD…I dreamed long ago that someday a Catholic Discipline record would materialize…I am overwhelmed to have been the one to organize it's release. Thank you for listening to it.
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