Psycho Surgeons

mikael said:
I know everything about Aussie punk rock.

OK, no PS outtakes or better Filth recordings (Do The Harold Holt!!!) but what about the LK stuff?
I know there's plenty good sounding stuff (Rot In Love, Pensioner Pie, Dying Boys Crawl, Accidents etc). Would love to see a reissue on Crypt. No doubt in my mind that Tim wouldn't do it.
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Grown Up Wrong records (https://grownupwrongrecords.com/news/) will release a "2CD set with everything including heaps of unreleased studio and live stuff, and Mesmeriser remastered from the original cassette*"

*from the reply to an email from the label
 
Another great anecdote I read from Bob Short of the Filth: The leftover blood from the splashing of the
Psychosurgeons covers, were used at a show on an unsuspecting crowd at Alexandria Hotel, Sydney, 1978.
Peter Tillman of the Filth went on to become the frontman of the Lipstick Killers, so yeah the connection
is strong here Filth ---> Psychosurgeons ---> Lipstick Killers :D

Note the bass player listed for Filth: :D

http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/bands/filth
 
mikael said:
the connection is strong here Filth ---> Psychosurgeons ---> Lipstick Killers :D


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/bands/filth
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Close, but the Psychosurgeons existed at least a year before Filth. Filth was started by Bob Short who hooked up with members of West Coast Live which was a school band. Bob was a regular at the Funhouse where Radio Birdman, the Psychosurgeons, and Hellcats often played. He wasn't in a band at that time. Pete's band was a covers band put together for fun (I remember Doors etc., Bob remembers better than I do). He came to see the Psychosurgeons many times at the Funhouse and elsewhere, and switched to punk after seeing us. Both Bob and Pete were regular customers at the White Light record store, before they knew each other. One day at White Light Pete asked me if the Psychosurgeons would play at their school dance. I said yes. Bob came to that show to see the Psychosurgeons, but also saw West Coast Live play. He must have been impressed with Pete because he hooked up with them and formed Filth. Filth had a bass player and a drummer, but the drummer Noel had problems and missed most of the gigs. Various drummers filled in, including Rose Tatoo's drummer one time(?). The bass player Elvio was stopped by his parents from playing most of the gigs. When the Psychosurgeons invited Filth to tour Adelaide, I played bass because Elvio was not allowed to go on tour. So I played bass as support with Filth and also guitar with the Psychosurgeons for that tour. That was the only time I played with Filth. Filth were banned everywhere for rowdy behavior (by Pete and Bob). The daily paper reported the publican as saying "they're not musicans, they're a pack of idiots" after we were banned. It was true. Martin Joyce was the drummer, because Noel was dropped from the band by that time. Filth had about 10 really good originals that Bob and Pete wrote. Top stuff, but never recorded properly. They were really exciting, but chaotic and sometimes overly self indulgent. But that was the name of the game in 1977/78.
 
bosshoss said:
Close, but the Psychosurgeons existed at least a year before Filth. Filth was started by Bob Short who hooked up with members of West Coast Live which was a school band. Bob was a regular at the Funhouse where Radio Birdman, the Psychosurgeons, and Hellcats often played. He wasn't in a band at that time. Pete's band was a covers band put together for fun (I remember Doors etc., Bob remembers better than I do). He came to see the Psychosurgeons many times at the Funhouse and elsewhere, and switched to punk after seeing us. Both Bob and Pete were regular customers at the White Light record store, before they knew each other. One day at White Light Pete asked me if the Psychosurgeons would play at their school dance. I said yes. Bob came to that show to see the Psychosurgeons, but also saw West Coast Live play. He must have been impressed with Pete because he hooked up with them and formed Filth. Filth had a bass player and a drummer, but the drummer Noel had problems and missed most of the gigs. Various drummers filled in, including Rose Tatoo's drummer one time(?). The bass player Elvio was stopped by his parents from playing most of the gigs. When the Psychosurgeons invited Filth to tour Adelaide, I played bass because Elvio was not allowed to go on tour. So I played bass as support with Filth and also guitar with the Psychosurgeons for that tour. That was the only time I played with Filth. Filth were banned everywhere for rowdy behavior (by Pete and Bob). The daily paper reported the publican as saying "they're not musicans, they're a pack of idiots" after we were banned. It was true. Martin Joyce was the drummer, because Noel was dropped from the band by that time. Filth had about 10 really good originals that Bob and Pete wrote. Top stuff, but never recorded properly. They were really exciting, but chaotic and sometimes overly self indulgent. But that was the name of the game in 1977/78.
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Thank you for filling in some missing bits here. I have, I think, all Filth songs, but of course in very lo-fi Q.
I think they were recorded on a portable cassette recorder.
Looking forward to the Lipstick Killers double beast. Can't wait to hear what the "missing" songs from
the Sockman session sound like.

Yeah, there were several of excellent early aussie combos that recorded way too little or nothing at all.
Some stuff has recently come to light (often in bad FI, but great): I.e. the Pre Victims group the Geeks , Orphans,
Manikins, Cheap Nasties etc
 
It's something i did last year, to pass the time. Started out as demos, but I made the mistake of putting them on facebook, and then I was encouraged to release them. I only made 66 copies of the double 45. Three of them were rare cursed skulls. There's instructions included as to how to lift the curse (and the accompanying mild embarrassing itching). There were a few other skulls released but they weren't cursed.
 
Some (not all) of the sound quality is pretty rough. Dave Laing likes that raw sound, and he picked the tracks. A few of the live tracks have the vocals mixed so low you can hardly hear them, but nothing could be done.
 
Looking forward to the Lipstick Killers double beast. Can't wait to hear what the "missing" songs from
the Sockman session sound like.
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Double LP includes the original 1979 single, the posthumous “Sockman/Pensioner Pie’ 45 plus additional unreleased studio masters from the same ’78 session
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Oh yeah!
 
From Grown Up Wrong Records Facebook page:

UK Orders (Note: orders placed here ship from UK distributor's warehouse) - https://grownupwrong.bandcamp.com/

US orders - https://midheaven.com/artist/lipstick-killers

Track list:
1.Hindu Gods of Love - Lost In Space 45
2.Shakedown USA - Lost In Space 45
3.Sockman - Mixdown Studio Demo
4.Pensioner Pie - Mixdown Studio Demo
5.Teen Police - Mixdown Studio Demo
6.Hindu Gods of Love - Mixdown Studio Demo
7.Rot In Love - Mixdown Studio Demo
8.Accidents - Mixdown Studio Demo
9.Shakedown USA - Live In Adelaide
10.Dying Boy's Crawl - Live In Adelaide
11.Master's Words - Live In Adelaide
12.Bully - Live In Adelaide
13.Teen Police - Live In Adelaide
14.Wild Weekend - Live In Adelaide
15.I've Got Levitation - Live In Adelaide
16.Mercy Killer - Live In Adelaide
17.Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go - Live In Adelaide
18.Human Crash - Live In Adelaide
19.Crush On You - Live In Adelaide
20.Hindu Gods of Love - Live In Adelaide
21.Head Off - Live In Adelaide
22.Sock It To Me, Baby! - Live In Adelaide
23.Sockman - Live In Adelaide
24.Horizontal Action - Live In Adelaide
25.New Hard Fun - Trafalgar Demos
26.Mesmerizer - Trafalgar Demos
27.Driving The Special Dead - Trafalgar Demos
28.Bongo Flip - Trafalgar Demos
29.Twilight Of The Idols - Trafalgar Demos
30.Strange Flash - Trafalgar Demos
31.Hide & Seek - Trafalgar Demos
32.Date With A Thing - Trafalgar Demos
33.Liquor Fit - Trafalgar Demos
34.Dying Boy's Crawl - Live in LA
35.Driving The Special Dead - Live in LA
36.Bongo Flip - Live in LA
37.Strange Flash - Live in LA
38.Twilight Of The Idols - Live in LA
39.I've Got Levitation - Live in LA
40.Date With A Thing - Live in LA
41.Sock It To Me, Baby! - Live in LA
42.Shakedown USA - Live in LA
43.Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go - Live in LA
44.Out Of Our Tree - Live in LA
45.Liquor Fit - Live in LA
46.Psycho Surgeons - Horizontal Action - Wallaby Beat 45
47.Psycho Surgeons - Wild Weekend - Wallaby Beat 45
48.Psycho Surgeons - Falling Apart - Rehearsal
49.Psycho Surgeons - Crush On You - Rehearsal
 
Amazon dropped off the LIPSTICK KILLERS / PSYCHO-SURGEONS CD today and it's killer from top to bottom. Get in on the HORIZONTAL ACTION now!
 
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Psychotronic Enterprises is pleased to announce the FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD bonus track to accompany your purchase of the Lipstick Killers Anthology. You don't even have to purchase the Anthology actually. You can just download it willy nilly!

The track is a super but extremely CRUDE LIVE 1978 version of Rot In Love, which the Lipstick Killers later recorded at Mixdown Studios in Sydney. This version predates the LK version by at least 6 months. I heard it for the first time tonight.

Brought to you by Psychotronic Enterprises. Original soundfile source Peter Miller. Produced by Darren Mevissen (great job considering what he had to work with!). Besides featuring "ME", the line-up is Dave Taylor (Drums) Craig Amiet (bass) and Stan Armstrong (vocals). Hope you like it. It's a track from the only known LIVE recording of the Psychosurgeons.

http://www.g45central.com/posts/Psychosurgeons_RotInLove.mp3
 
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