Really Red Texas Punk 7" 33 Despise Moral Majority 1980 CIA Records

	£		150
	$		199

Selling my collection of Texas punk 45s and memorabilia individually. 

Sold so far: 45's: Bobby Soxx Learn To Hate In The 80's, NCM Ultimate Orgasm, NCM Quick To Compliment, The Telefones - the Ballad of Jerry Godzilla/She's In Love With The Rolling Stones. Fanzines c/o Goerge Gimarc FabGearRaveBeat, Hot Klub sticker, Sound Warehouse sticker, Q102 sticker. Stevie Ray Vaughan poster, The Fall Hot Klub poster. The Fall signed LPs & The Fall & Telefones @ The Hot Klub unreleased live cassette.

Listed and still available: Quad Pi, The Nervebreakers singles and this Really Red EP, Dallas 25 x Poster collection from 1980-1982 - all ORIGINALS.

This listing is for Really Red - Despise Moral Majority  7" EP plays at 33 rpm in original hand stamped paper sleeve as issued. 

Issued on CIA Records, CIA-03. Bought from VVV records on release. 

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• Matrix / Runout: CIA-03-This/That

Original record in near mint condition, with an excellent sleeve with only superficial creases. The record has not been displayed, mainly just stored away out of the light. 

Tickets and photos of Hot Klub & VVV added for interest only to prove I was there and are not included in the sale. 

Acquired when I lived and worked as an illegal in Dallas 79-83. Having fought in the punk wars in Coventry in the UK [The Clash, Elvis, Specials era] my timing was good to visit Dallas. The neuvo wavo scene was emerging and I went to the Hot Klub, DJ's & The Palladium / Agora to see locals like Bobby Soxx, The Telefones, NCM, The Doo, The Nervebreakers and Joe King Carrasco, through to a fab array of visiting groups like the mighty Fall. I worked at Sound Warehouse for a while and bought punk records at VVV and Metamorphosis, taking it all for granted. Sound Warehouse only stocked mainstream records, though shifted a lot of Rapper's Delight and Grandmaster Flash 12's alongside ZZ Top.  

This record has been been played a handful of times - once on purchase, and a couple of times more recently on after revamping my hi fi to check condition. Condition is as purchased from new with no noticeable flaws, playing at 1g on a Thorens TD320 Mk2. 

I don't want to take the risk of it being returned damaged, lost etc, so I will package with great care, insure and dispatch promptly. 

As time has gone on I have come to appreciate the historical significance of being there and the residual quality of these Texas punk records. A couple of years ago I listed these records as part of a Texas punk collection and had several enquiries about individual records but no one wanted to buy the lot. Now selling individually. 

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Wikipedia:

The Really Red line up consisted of John Paul Williams on bass guitar, Ronnie "U-Ron" Bond vocalist/lyricist, Bob Weber on drums and Kelly Younger on guitar. Under occasional variations of their names, these were the original and only band members. Really Red evolved into one of the most prominent and popular Texas punk bands of that era and helped to kick-start the early punk scene in Houston and Texas. Really Red toured the USA several times and played some dates in Canada including a benefit for the Squamish Five in Vancouver.

Along with their "paying gigs" they were known to do benefit shows for causes as diverse as The Nuclear Freeze Campaign, the Canadian Squamish Five Legal Defense, KPFT radio or even for a vet bill for an injured dog. They started their own independent record label, C.I.A. Records. Really Red toured extensively with DOA and Articles of Faith. They also were billed with many bands of note including, but not limited to, John Cale, Dead Kennedys, SPK, the Effigies, Red Tide, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Stranglers, Dayglo Abortions, 999, Big Boys, The Dicks, MDC, Negative Approach, the Butthole Surfers, Sado Nation, Die Kreuzen, Personality Crisis, Culturcide, Mark Arm's Mr Epp and also the Fastbacks. On special rare occasions Austrian avante garde film maker, Kurt Kren, would project his films as a backdrop for the band's performance.

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For the uninitiated class and minutia sponges of the world, here's some background. First of all, the name Really Red and what it means according to different band members...

Kelly Younger (guitar):

"I was (am) a printer, and I was trying to think of something non-sensical that people could extrapolate a bunch of non-related meanings to. For some reason, Red (magenta) crossed my mind, and Really Red came to be. Our political leanings meant we could be considered "reds", communists. That was bullshit, but if it got people to think, that was O.K. with us. I would request that you run this by the others, in case there is an alternate explanation."

Bob Weber (drums):

"Kelly used to be gay, and that was his favorite lipstick color."

John Paul Williams (bass):

"The name Really Red came from a situation where we were trying to come up with something interesting and profound, of course! We looked at other band names like King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, and all of the other ridiculous names that bands have had in the past. Through a deeply religious experience (drinking booze, playing hard, staying up late doing naughty things), it turned out that we had practice the next day and someone mentioned that someone else's eyes were 'really red'. Voila! A most mystical occurrence! An incredible quark of nature! A true quantum experience! This went beyond all reasoning. Something so profound from such a meager beginning."