CLONE "AFTER THOUGHT" b/w "JACUZZI FLUZZI" 1978 SEATTLE PUNK/GLAM W/UPCHUCK EX

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note: my buddy Dave had a second identical copy of this rare Seattle pre-grunge 45, it is in excellent/nm condition as the other. thanks for looking!

bob

LAST YEAR I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED. I WILL BE LISTING A LOT OF HIS 45's OVER THE COMING FEW WEEKS.

ARTIST: CLONE (SEATTLE GLAM/PUNK)

TRACK LISTING-

SIDE A “AFTER THOUGHT” (2:56)

SIDE B “JACUZZI FLUZZI” (2:32)

Credits

• Mixed By [Remix] – Rick Keefer
• Vocals – Upchuck*
• Written-By – Jeff Gossard

Notes

LABEL: RIGHT THRU YOU RECORDS (SEATTLE INDIE)

CAT#- R.T.Y. 101

YEAR: 1978

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN NM/EXCELLENT CONDITION, THE VINYL LOOKS VERY CLEAN WITH A NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO SCRATCHES, BLEMS, MARKS.BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. GENERIC WHITE PAPER SLEEVE

OTHER INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THE “A” SIDE HAS SMALL STARS ON THE LABEL WHICH DENOTES IT WAS THE SIDE LOOKING FOR RADIO PLAY. THE SINGER IS SEATTLE LEGENDARY GAY PUNK ICON THE LATE UPCHUCK. THIS IS A RARE RECORD, MY DRUMMER BUDDY GETS MENTIONED IN THE INFO PRINTED BELOW, THO I DON'T THINK HE PLAYS ON THIS...

ARTIST & RELEASE INFO: FOUND ON THE NET... I was a stoned-out unemployed keyboard player after serving for one year in Seattle’s top favorite band The Sorceror’s Apprentice. Many thanks to them I was fortunate to posess my beloved first Arp Odyssey synthesizer, a 1957 Hammond M-3 organ with matching 147 Leslie Speaker, a Solina String Ensemble, Roland Jet Phaser and a Fender Rhodes electric piano. I was lucky enough to be hanging out at the North Seattle home of two of the downtown punk scene’s most popular, interesting and attractive young ladies Suzy and Cindy and they introduced me to a swishy young thing in a buzz cut wearing yes- a blue satin sailor’s suit! He was introduced to me as Chuckie and even though he looked like a little alien, he was friendly yet serious- oh SO serious! Right away he told me “I’ve heard about you and would you like to be the musical director of my new band?”. I was pretty picky/snobby/selective about what kind of bands and musicians I wanted to play with (being an unrepentant Prog-Rocker replete with my hideous poodle hair-do) but then he tossed in the catchy line “I have a sugar-daddy and he will buy us any musical equipment you want and besides, I have a big house with a swimming pool and you can live there for free- if you don’t mind young drag queens and hustlers”!!  How could I refuse? in the state I was in, after all I had no money no job, no band- and was back living at home with my mom.

We started his band which I named CLONE- with Jeff Gossard who was already playing guitar with Chuck (aka Upchuck, Chuckie or Chucky Buttfucky a few of his charming nicknames). Mike Davidson (bass) and Dave Drury (drums) were fresh from Satz’s confrontational cool band The Lewd and with these we were well on our way. Chuck had just recently recorded an amazing single called Jacuzzi Floozie b/w Afterthought with an super-talented Seattle drummer named Drake Eubanks whom I never heard anything about after that.  We worked up a few original songs and threw in David Bowie’s Station to Station as an opener and a cool song by The Runaways called Hollywood which Chuckie delivered with a startlingly sleazy and passionate vocal performance. He had a very full deep trembling voice and could really project in a powerful, emotional way.

True to his word we got to go “gear shopping” and I hilariously outfitted each member of the band with the latest musical effect (at the time) the pedal-flanger. The result was that everyone in the band sounded like jet-planes taking off, so overall the result was a very funny sounding wall of buzzing noise and hiss. We also got a huge new state of the art PA system so that our little basement next to the big swimming pool- was loud like rock-&-roll bombs going off!

Some wild events occurred at the Palatine Avenue House that are quite fascinating to me still;
The first was the “press only” party that Chuck threw before our first show at The Bird (club). How very irate and pissed off were the rest of the punk rockers from the scene when our unknown band had a well publicized party that most were not invited to! This started a great deal of animosity towards young Mr. Chuck Gerra! But what a lavish party it was; well attended, really fun, plus- the press really did show up!

Next was the fact that there really were teenage male hustlers and drag queens in every room of that spacious 2-story house. I lived in the attic taking care of the Colombian Gold with Jeff and Mike and reading esoteric books about Theosophy. Also up there was a room belonging to our dear Pat who played Lesley Gore’s “Its My Party (I can cry if I want to)” every night and every morning just to set the mood (this got a wee bit old and on my nerves after a while to be honest).

THEN There was the famous fight between Chuckie and his sugar daddy in which Chuck threw a tantrum because the new color TV that Mr.B bought for him “wasn’t big enough!” Upchuck then tossed the brand-new, too-small TV through the living room window. The next day -WOW!! the window was repaired and a new, larger color TV was delivered, as well as the lovely set of plastic pink flamingos for the front yard that Chuckie had been whining about for weeks.

Clone’s first show at The Bird was a night to remember! First off, Chuckie made me put my unfashionable long hair up into a little boat captain’s hat and then wrapped my bare chest in clear cellophane, over which I wore a white plastic boy’s jacket from Goodwill which was way too small for me. I tied a plastic tiny bong (yes, filled with dirty bongwater) around my neck with some speakerwire, and we all piled into a huge white limousine that somehow Chuck had miraculously gotten us for the show along with the chauffeur from some dodgy backroom dealings at the infamous Monastery (club). Our show went REALLY well, for when we all entered that derelict/delicious little punk club from the stretch white limo and launched into the flanger-filled synth-noise driven version of Station to Station the crowd actually seemed to dig it! Chuckie was truly in excellent form and voice that night, again- he did have a really cool, unique aggressive marvelous voice.

ALSO THIS: 

Legendary Seattle artist Charles “Upchuck” Gerra is the subject of an article in a November issue of The Advocate magazine. By the time “Upchuck” was Eighteen he’d been locked-up in juvenile detention for being gay, arrested for offering to give a blow-job to an undercover cop for bus fare, and formed one of the first punk rock bands on the West Coast. His contribution to Seattle music history are undeniable and unique before he died of AIDS in 1991. Resurgence of interest in his music has followed the rave reviews of his posthumous CD collection UPCHUCK: GONE BUT NOT FORGIVEN everywhere from LA’s PUNK GLOBE magazine to Argentinean music journal LA OTRA.

Seattle writer and NY Times best-selling author Charles R. Cross has this to say about the UPCHUCK album: “This long-awaited CD from the legendary Charles “Upchuck” Gerra finally sets right one of the lost chapters in Seattle’s pre-grunge music era. Essential for anyone who loves punk rock, glam rock, or just groundbreaking music of any genre.”

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ALL 7” SINGLES WILL BE MAILED OUT IN PADDED ENVELOPES WITH EXTRA STURDY CARDBOARD TO PROTECT THE ITEM. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING WITH OTHER LIKE SIZED ITEMS. ADDITIONAL 45’S .50 EA. IN THE U.S. VIA MEDIA MAIL OR OTHER USPS SERVICES. ONE 45 WITH SHIPPING MATERIALS IS 5 OUNCES, 2 6 OUNCES, THREE 8 OUNCES, FIGURE 2 OUNCES FOR EA. ADDITIONAL 45. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS BASED ON WEIGHT AND COUNTRY. FOR THE U.S. THE $4 COST OF THE MEDIA MAIL INCLUDES MY COST OF PADDED ENVELOPES, PACKING MATERIALS & TIME. THANKS! BOB

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