Fastbacks 45 RPM It's Your Birthday b/w You Cant Be Happy No Threes Duff McKagan

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For sale is (1) Fastbacks 45 RPM single with the songs "It's Your Birthday b/s "You Can't Be Happy".  Mega Rare and hard to find.  1 of 1000 were printed.  Vinyl is VG + (with only a few of the slightest light marks from removing the record from the sleeve), Sleeve is VG + and Inner Sleeve is NM -.  The vinyl is silky black and has been played only a few times (on a properly set up turntable with proper tracking force).  This has been in storage for a very long time since I bought it back in the early 80's (I mail ordered it and my mom wrote a check for it).  Kurt actually wrote a thank you (I wished I still had it) when my records arrived.  This was the first record produced and published by Kurt Bloch at his No Threes Label.  
I am the original owner and this disc resided in a smoke free environment.  The No Threes Record label is no more but one of the precursors and pioneers of the early grunge scene and the sub pop label.  
Band Membes:  Kurt Bloch - Guitar, Lulu Gargiulo - Vocals/Guitar, Kim Warnick - Vocals/Bass and.....Duff McKagan (you know, Guns & Roses) - Drums/Vocals.
Here's a little history on this 1 of 1000 pressings of this 45:
The first show with Duff on drums occurred on December 5, 1980 at the Gorilla Room. It didn't take long for this incarnation of the band to enter the studio. On January 20, 1981 they entered Triangle studios for their first real recording session (engineers and producers were Jack Weaver, Homer Spencer, and Neil Hubbard). Four songs were recorded that day: Someone Else's Room, Was Late, It's Your Birthday, and You Can't Be Happy. Someone Else's Room would find itself on the Engram Records 'Seattle Syndrome' compilation LP in 1981. Was Late would not find the light of day until 10 years later when the Blaster label in the U.K. re-released the early Fastbacks recordings for the Never Fails, Never Works LP. It's Your Birthday and You Can't Be Happy would be the two songs selected to represent the Fastbacks on their debut single. 

One thousand copies of It's Your Birthday b/w You Can't Be Happy were pressed and released on the No Threes label in May of 1981. Of those thousand, Kurt may still have a few copies lying around. Each single was numbered on the inside sleeve and the label of the single introduces what would become Kurt Bloch's modest publishing empire, Energy House Music. There was also a separate insert included with the single that included lyrics and credits, along with a few early photos. 

This first Fastbacks single would serve as a blue print for future Fastbacks songs. Each song has delicately constructed guitar passages, soaring harmonies, and jackhammer tempos. The Fastbacks would obviously get better at the performance and production side of things, but the songwriting in 1981 was already showing itself to be a unique mixture of pop, hard rock, and punk. It's interesting to listen to this single contrasted against some of their more recent work. While Kurt's style has definitely matured as both a songwriter and guitarist, and Kim's vocals have smoothed themselves out, the sound isn't very different at its core. Each song displays a maturity beyond it's own sophistication, at times complicated and epic, but also bouncy and catchy. 

Duff would end up playing 10 Fastbacks show in total, including an opening slot for Joan Jett in March of 1981. Little did anyone realize at the time that Duff would only be the 2nd in a long line of drummers to grace the Fastbacks line-up (or that he would end up playing bass on the butt rock classic "Sweet Child of Mine"). Kurt's internship as the drummer had lasted barely a year, Duff's was to last less, as he found himself over committed to too many bands. He quit in July 1981, but would return later as their roadie on the Fastbacks first road trip tour in 1984.
 
 
 Duff came along with the Fastbacks as their first 'roadie'. 

I will ship the record inside of a proper cardboard record mailer, the correct way.  There is nothing like receiving a crappily mailed record and I don't resort to improper shipping methods.
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