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Never Mind The Gizmos Here's The Gizmos

by The Gizmos

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    Limited edition reprinting of the 1980 Gizmos Songbook, with lyrics and chords for 25 Gizmos songs and illustrations by Billy Nightshade (R.I.P.). Twenty-eight pages B&W corner stapled, includes the flyer for a November 1980 Gizmos show with Rank And File at Maxwell's in Hoboken.

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  • Full Digital Discography

    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 , .

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Tie Me Up 01:24
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1978 02:57
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Pay 01:47
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Reggae Song 02:45
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Please Panic 01:32

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This 2002 CD, 1978-1981: NEVER MIND THE GIZMOS HERE'S THE GIZMOS, assembles the 14 tracks originally released on Gulcher vinyl by the post-Ken Highland/Eddie Flowers Gizmos. After the original group scattered in early 1977, vocalist Ted Niemiec and Gulcher's Bob Richert put together a sextet of new Gizmos. In 1978, they toured the east coast and recorded the EP NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS HERE'S THE GIZMOS. Standout tracks are early versions of "Cry Real Tears" (Vulgar Boatmen) and "The American Dream" (Walking Ruins), and a cover of the Sex Pistols B-side "Did You No Wrong." Two years later--downsized to a quartet of Dale Lawrence, Billy Nightshade, Tim Carroll, and Shadow Myers--the Gizmos released the 1980 split HOOSIER HYSTERIA album with Dow Jones & The Industrials. Highlights include the manic "Dead Astronauts," ironic "Rock & Roll Don't Come From New York," and Al Green's "Take Me To The River." A year later, unaware of their impending Indiana fame, the band relocated to Hoboken, New Jersey. With new drummer Robbie Wise, they recorded several demos with the MX-80 Sound production team of Mark Bingham and Mark Hood. Only "The Midwest Can Be Allright" was released then, on the 1981 Gulcher compilation LP RED SNERTS; it took another 20 years for the 1981 NYC DEMOS CD-EP to appear. A bonus living room take of "Please Panic" concludes this collection; although they unmercifully slagged their mentors, Bloomington's high school Panics covered several Gizmos songs, including from this CD "Tie Me Up," "Pay," and "Abdul In-A Babylon" ("Reggae Song").

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released January 13, 2002

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The Gizmos Bloomington, Indiana

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

As time unfolds we'll be uploading more Gizmos and related releases to Bandcamp. In the meantime, you can visit the Official Gulcher Store at Big Cartel for the complete discography, or message us directly for Gulcher's set sale list.
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