Jodie Foster's Army LP Valley Of The Yakes ORIGINAL 1983 Placebo LP + Insert JFA
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Jodie Foster's Army : Valley Of The Yakes
Full Length 12" Vinyl Record Album
Description: Album cover features the Army with skateboards and cool tees (Cuckoos Nest, PiL, Bad Brains) and onstage on the back cover. Original illustrated lyrics insert included featuring a skater boy shooting the curl over seven bikini-clad babes. There's lyrics to just three songs because "We can't tell you what Brian says in the rest of the songs". On the flip side of the insert are Placebo Records releases. The vinyl record is in glossy clean excellent condition, a couple of very faint lines. Plays at 45RPM. The cover is in very good condition, minor ring wear, no seam splits. Price sticker near top right corner from Chicago's legendary Wax Trax Records. Please see pictures. All records cleaned with Ultrasonic vinyl cleaner. Check out our store listings for a wide variety of vinyl and CDs including many albums from the early 80's punk/new wave era in our punk/new wave store category. We ship worldwide in secure packaging. Any questions, please contact us.
Tracklist:
1 Kick You
2 Great Equalizer
3 Preppy
4 Little Big Man
5 Johnny D
6 Walk Don't Run
7 I Don't Like You
8 Baja
9 Skateboard
10 We Know You Suck
11 Too Late
12 Sadistic Release
13 Axed At Howards
14 I-10
15 Guess What?
Jodie Foster's Army is a hardcore punk band formed in 1981, with roots in Arizona and in Southern California skateboard culture. The original members include Brian Brannon (vocals), Don Redondo (guitar), Michael Cornelius (bass), and Mike "Bam-Bam" Sversvold (drums). Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls also played bass for a time. The band was pivotal in the development of the skate punk and Skate Rock scenes. Over the years, the lineup has included many bass players and drummers but the core of Brannon and Redondo has remained constant. JFA was formed in April 1981, 19 days after the failed attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. who was an obsessed fan of Jodie Foster and her portrayal of a teen prostitute in the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver, reportedly attempted to kill the President as a means of impressing the actress. The band's name was thus a dark play on Hinckley's attempt at murdering Reagan. Don Redondo, then in the band The Deez, and Cornelius, then in the band Jr. Chemists, knew each other from shows around Phoenix, Arizona and from skateboarding. They began playing together after a D.O.A. concert during the band's Hardcore 81 tour. Bam-Bam later joined after meeting Redondo at an "Industrial Dance" in Phoenix. Brian Brannon was pulled into the band by Cornelius who met him skateboarding and at punk shows. The band's first show was opening for Black Flag at an Industrial Dance which was one of a series of early Phoenix punk shows. Their first song of the night was "Pipetruck", which combined elements of "Police Truck" by The Dead Kennedys and "Pipeline" by The Chantays. As of 1984 all members of the band were from Arizona, except Redondo (Huntington Beach, CA) and Cornelius (Bethesda, MD). Placebo Records released their debut EP Blatant Localism in late 1981. The band toured the west extensively and played many local shows. Their first national tour was in the summer of 1983 following the release of their first album Valley of the Yakes. JFA recorded a cover of "Schroeder's Theme", which has been cited as one of the "best recordings of surf music by any punk band". The original bassist, Michael Cornelius, left the band in the summer of 1984 prior to the nine-week summer '84 tour. Alan Bishop of labelmates Sun City Girls played bass until Cornelius returned for the 1986 release Nowhere Blossoms. The band received continuing coverage in the influential skateboard magazine Thrasher during the 1980s. Brannon appeared on the April 1987 cover of Thrasher riding backside at the Love Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona. He also appeared on the cover of the April 1989 issue grinding a fakie layback thruster on the edge of the pipe at Thrasherland Skatepark in Glendale, Arizona. In 1990, Brannon took a full-time position as staff writer at Thrasher and eventually became music editor and art director of the magazine until he left in 1997. Throughout the 1980s, Brannon, Redondo and Cornelius were Thrasher freelance contributors of articles and photographs. Brian Brannon is a Master Chief in the United States Navy Reserve. (*~*)
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