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1975​-​1977: Demos & Rehearsals

by The Gizmos

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Plus complete digital proofs of the 20-page double-CD booklet, tray card front and back, and discfaces, with Richard Meltzer's liner notes for the AMERIKA FIRST EP and reviews of THE STUDIO RECORDINGS CD.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $11 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The Gizmos' story of early American punk is re-told here with 54 previously unreleased tracks and a 20-page booklet packed with riff-by-riff details from Krazee Ken Highland, with commentary and clarification by Ready Eddie Flowers. Plus lots of unpublished photos, including the many photo-booth faces of Krazee Ken.

    Includes unlimited streaming of 1975-1977: Demos & Rehearsals via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $27 USD or more 

     

  • Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    [Note you are purchasing a digital copy of the original print magazine. A download link will be sent to you, kindly don't redistribute.]

    Gulcher Magazine #4, a/k/a "The Gizmos Issue," dated Summer 1976, with the Gizmos origin story by Dr. Eddie Flowers (+ photos, cover collage!!), Vinyl Junkie column by Cub Koda (Brownsville Station, R.I.P), Micro-Labels by Prof. Tom Bingham (SUNY Fredonia), Krazee Kensumer Gulde (with Stenson sitting in for PFC Highland, USMC), Bear's Mail Bag (Queen City Album refuses to press first Gizmos EP--where are they today?), and more rockstars-imitating-rockstars photos.

    Includes unlimited streaming of 1975-1977: Demos & Rehearsals via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    Original Print Edition of Gulcher Magazine #4, a/k/a "The Gizmos Issue," dated Summer 1976, with the Gizmos origin story by Dr. Eddie Flowers (+ photos, cover collage!!), Vinyl Junkie column by Cub Koda (Brownsville Station, R.I.P), Micro-Labels by Prof. Tom Bingham (SUNY Fredonia), Krazee Kensumer Gulde (with Stenson sitting in for PFC Highland, USMC), Bear's Mail Bag (Queen City Album refuses to press first Gizmos EP--where are they today?), and more rockstars-imitating-rockstars photos.

    [Purchase of the original print magazine includes a free digital download of the issue. A download link will be sent to you, kindly don't redistribute.]

    Includes unlimited streaming of 1975-1977: Demos & Rehearsals via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $100 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    26
    releases

    Get all 26 The Gizmos releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Live At The Rat 1983, Love Songs 1975-1981, Tentatively Terminal 1977-1978, The Jetsons, Polish Sausage Sauerkraut! A Collection Of Gizmos Covers, The Gizmos EPs 1976-1978, The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77, The Gizmos In New York 1980-81, and 18 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $103 USD or more (50% OFF)

     

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Mean Screen 02:45
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Chicken Queen 02:37
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She Put A Spell On Me 01:51
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Pretty Patte's After Me 02:01
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That's Cool 03:29
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'Ave A Gud Tyme 01:50
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Seaside Boogie With A Jack-Off Solo 02:55
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Mean Screen 00:35
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Mean Screen 02:15
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Refrigerator Rappin' 02:59
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Fanzine Pussy 03:38
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Be Bop Barb 01:55
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I Shoot Up/You're Gonna Miss Me 05:15
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Dance To The Beat 03:17
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Talkin' On The Telephone 02:04
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We're Gonna Rumble 02:45
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We're Gonna Rumble 02:43
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That's Cool 05:25
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Muff Divin' 02:40
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Chicken Queen 06:42
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Pumpin' To Playboy 02:38
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That's Cool 03:49
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Pumpin' To Playboy 02:36
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Chicken Queen 07:35
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Gimme Back My Foreskin 02:08
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I'm A Regular Guy 00:30
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I Shoot Up/You're Gonna Miss Me 04:09
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Ready Eddie 02:07
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Juvenile Delinquent 02:45
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Hot Shot 01:56
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I Laffed Out Loud 02:57
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Too Cool To Fool 01:40
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Talkin' On The Telephone 01:48
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Cave Woman 01:38
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Human Garbage Disposal 02:10
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Inferiority Complex 02:14
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Ode To Miss Achtung 01:53
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Where Have You Been All My Life 00:54
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Nobody's Girl 03:06
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Amerika First 02:19
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Jailbait Janet 03:04
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Woonsocket Women 02:45
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Dorothy Hamill 01:36
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Patty's Lying 03:11
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Hey Beat Mon! 03:28
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Kiss Of The Rat 01:39
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Blues For Cary Baker 02:57
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Ballad Of The Gizmos 02:04
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Gizmos World Tour 02:33
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Give Me A Whirl 01:43
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I Love Music 02:16
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Boring, Part 1 03:36
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BluesTime 05:02
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That's Cool/'Ave A Gud Tyme 07:03
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She Put A Spell On Me 02:45
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Hot on the heels of THE GIZMOS--1976/1977: THE STUDIO RECORDINGS, Gulcher Records is proud to present a new GIZMOS double CD, 1975-1977: DEMOS & REHEARSALS!! The Gizmos' story of early American punk is re-told here with 55 previously unreleased tracks and a 20-page booklet.

Included are Ken Highland's 1975 demos that started the whole thing; Ken and Eddie Flowers, as the Rockabilly Yobs, accidentally discovering swamp-trash-punk; Rich Coffee's stoner-rock band Cerberus joining Ken for the first Gizmos rehearsal; Maryland Marine-era song demos by Ken; and Ted Niemiec's demos for the 1977 Gizmos sessions.

There are versions of Gizmos faves like "Mean Screen," "Chicken Queen," "That's Cool," "Muff Divin'," "Pumpin' To Playboy," "Cave Woman," "Human Garbage Disposal," "Amerika First," "Kiss Of The Rat," "Gizmos World Tour," and "Hey Beat Mon!" And six songs that Ken recorded with the Afrika Korps in 1977-78, including "Jailbait Janet," "Too Cool To Fool," and "Nobody's Girl." Plus many unheard and even unremembered tunes! How could the classic Giz-rock of "Ready Eddie," "Talkin' On The Telephone," and "Seaside Boogie With A Jack-Off Solo" have remained unreleased for all these years?!

The 20-page booklet is packed with riff-by-riff details from Krazee Ken Highland, with commentary and clarification by Ready Eddie Flowers. Plus lots of unpublished photos, including the many photo-booth faces of Krazee Ken.

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released December 19, 2000

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Thurston "Gizmo" Moore at Sonic Life book signing at Monorail Music, Glasgow, Scotland, November 16, 2023. Photo courtesy Lindsay Hutton.

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