NEW RACE The First & The Last LP BIG TIME 1982 AUSSIE reissu BIRDMAN-STOOGES-MC5
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NEW RACE
RON ASHETON, WARWICK GILBERT, DENIZ TEK, DENNIS THOMPSON, ROB YOUNGER
An interesting one-time-only band, New Race was proof that good music can occur when "teachers" and "students" get together. In this instance, the "teachers" were ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who joined forces with "students" Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, the latter three members of the seminal Australian punk band Radio Birdman. Tek was a Michigan native who'd emigrated to Australia in the early '70s, bringing his love of high-energy Detroit proto-punk with him. After Birdman's demise, he contacted Asheton and Thompson to come to Australia and form this ad-hoc touring outfit. New Race toured Australia once in 1981, playing mostly small halls and releasing one legit live LP and a few lo-fi bootlegs. While the resulting record, The First and the Last, benefits from a significant amount of in-studio sweetening (backing vocals are added, guitar solos overdubbed), it's still an exciting, guitar-fueled rave-up. Fans of the early-'70s Motor City sound or early Aussie punk wouldn't want to be without it.
"THE FIRST AND THE LAST"
<reissue, originally published in Australia in 1982, and in the U.K. only in 1983, with different artwork sleeve>
LP BIG TIME RECORDS BTB 907
MADE IN AUSTRALIA 1984 OFFICIAL REPRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE WITHOUT INNER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
Label: BIG TIME - WHITE LABEL w/BIRDMAN RED LOGO - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) BTB 907
Catalog on labels: BTB-907 (BTB 907 A) / BTB-907 (BTB 907 B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BTB 907-A DB
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BTB 907-B DB
On labels:
rim text reads "All Rights........Prohibited"
? 1982 Trafalgar Music
Produced and Mixed by Charles Fisher, Rob Younger and Alan Thorne at
Trafalgar Studio, Sydney. A Trafalgar Production
Manufactured under licence by Big Time Records
On Back Cover: Recorded live at Selina's, Sgt. Peppers, Manly Vale Hotel and Crystal Ballroom and Trafalgar
Manufactured under licence by Big Time Records.
tracklisting (from label)
Side A: CRYING SUN - HAUNTED ROAD - SAD T.V.
BREAKS MY HEART - LOOKING AT YOU*
Side B: NOVEMBER 22, 1963** - ALONE IN THE ENDZONE
LOVE KILLS - GOTTA KEEP MOVIN' - COLUMBIA
*by MC5
**by Destroy All Monsters
grading
RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
This album earned credibility for documenting a unique, one-off event. In 1981, ex-Radio Birdman bassist Warwick Gilbert, guitarist Deniz Tek, and vocalist Rob Younger saluted their influences by joining the Stooges' lead guitarist Ron Asheton and MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson for a six-week blitzkrieg of Australia. The notion made sense, since Radio Birdman had been acclaimed on their Australian home turf yet relegated to cult fodder elsewhere, while the MC5 and the Stooges had never been commercial propositions either. Still, once listeners pass the "punk summit" angle used in promoting the album, they'll find the fruits of this alliance impressive enough to warrant further exploration. Not surprisingly, there's strangled, slash-and-burn guitar playing aplenty on burners like "November 22, 1963," a conspiratorial recall of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. This track, by Asheton's major post-Stooges outlet, Destroy All Monsters...(AllMusic)price rating
