Deep Wound, 1983 EP, Dinosaur Jr,Sebadoh,Mascis,Barlow

	£		132
	$		175

Deep Wound, debut EP

Recorded and mixed in April-May 1983, at Radiobeat, Boston, MA. 

One Side:  I Saw It - Sisters - In My Room - Don't Need - Lou's Anxiety Song.

Another Side:  Video Prick - Sick Of Fun - Deep Wound - Dead Babies. 

ORIGINAL COPY. FIRST US PRESSING. Released 1983. Stereo. Radiobeat Records, catalogue number; RB002. `Masterdisk' is stamped in the runout groove, authenticating this as a first press.

 

One of the Holy Grail's for the hardcore collector, the debut and only single from the band who went on to spawn Dinosaur Jr. Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion. Superb condition with the original lyric insert. The last few copies sold on Ebay went for $200-£300. £4.99 start, get clicking...

 

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Overall Sleeve Condition : EXCELLENT (NEAR MINT). MINT

Black and White picture sleeve, a few very light surface and edge rubs. No serious damage. The lyric insert is in MINT condition.

Vinyl Condition, Visual: MINT.

Appears unplayed and unworn. Kept in stunning condition by the previous owner.

Vinyl Condition, Audible: MINT.

Superb, faultless copy. Kept in stunning condition by the previous owner.

Label Condition : MINT.

 

 

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from KFTH..."Deep Wound were one of a handful of great punk bands from the outer regions of Massachusetts who have been largely overlooked by HC history in favor of the "Boston Crew" bands who put out records on XClaim! or Modern Method. The four-piece recorded their one and only single with Lou Giordano and Frank Michaels (Proletariat) and released it on the Radiobeat label in 1982. Their one compilation appearance (on the otherwise excellent Bands that Could be God LP of Massachusetts punk) isn't quite as good as the raging insanity of this single. The record is snotty teenage punk rock but played at lightning speed with totally manic singing.

Drummer J Mascis and guitarist Lou Barlow went on to further greatness by forming the seminal indie rock band Dinosaur Jr. (and Lou later started Sebadoh), and bassist Scott Helland played in the Outpatients until their breakup in 1995. The Deep Wound material is all amazing and essential."

from damagedgoods...

That said, Deep Wound, was a strange and powerful unit inside the doctrinaire confines of Hardcore. Although they were all kinda nerdy (excepting secret weapon Charlie Nakajima), they shredded in a very explicit
way. There were some obvious structural debts to the Oi! Bands in their compositions, but they approached the exterior textures with stylistic nuances that were distinctly North American. As the Neos did on their Hassiban Gets the Martian Brain Squeeze EP, Deep Wound compressed time in ways that were extreme, and way outside the standard Square Dance beat that had been defined by Robo's drumming for Black Flag.

But Deep Wound's actual story is nothing out of the ordinary. It is but a minor variation on a thousand others.

J Mascis lived in Amherst. There was one punk at his high school and it wasn't Uma Thurman, it was Charlie. They were fortunate to have Ken Reed's great store, Main Street Records, in nearby Northampton. And they could get almost any American or UK punk stuff they needed from the racks or by special order.

One day in early '82, J met a Dee Dee Ramone lookalike at the Oi! singles bin. This was bassist Scott Helland. Scott posted a flier soon after looking for musicians into Anti-Pasti, Discharge and the like. J called to audition and had his dad drive him and his drums over to guitarist Lou Barlow's place in Westfield. They had a singer already, but J got them to replace him with Charlie, and Deep Wound was there.

They made a cassette, got a few gigs in Boston with the X-Claim bands (SSD, FU's, Jerry's Kids, etc.) and became the Western Mass band most likely to open for Hardcore visitors. They cut an EP, had tracks on Gerard Colsoy's Bands That Would Be God comp and even did a late-period session with Gerard singing that has disappeared into nada.

And every day they vowed to play faster. And they did, eventually developing a blur that could verge on experimental noise. Finally they burned as fast as they could, and realizing that was the case, they stopped. It was 1984.

The rest of the story is well known: Dinosaur, the Outpatients, Sebadoh, Gobblehoof, etc. Most of what Deep Wound recorded is on this disk, and it still sounds pretty choice the hundredth time through (believe me, I know).

Like many of their suburban kith, there are huge swathes of Xeroxed style and content, but these patches are obliterated by an underlying fascination with the reckless potential of absolute speed, and an intellectual overlay (albeit in a nascent state) that would blossom more fully in the bands that would follow.

But y'know, Hardcore was a really fucking good scene. And Deep Wound were a really fucking good Hardcore band. Living in this society has left a DEEP WOUND. Get used to it.

Byron Coley
Florence MA 2005

 

 

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