The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77

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marc_ian I aspire to look hard at life and get the joke like the Gizmos did in the mid 70s. Favorite track: Amerika First.

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Rare Slippy Town CDR released 2004, contains Side 1 of the new Gulcher tape (Tracks 1-9 below). Only five copies available!!

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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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1.	Kiss Of The Rat 01:01	buy track
2.	Human Garbage Disposal 02:07	buy track
3.	Cave Woman 01:26	buy track
4.	Hey Beat Mon! 03:26	buy track
5.	Gizmos World Tour 02:53	buy track
6.	Amerika First 02:21	buy track
7.	Ted Intro Outtake 00:45	buy track
8.	Muff Divin' 03:18	buy track
9.	Mean Screen 03:22	buy track
10.	Ramblin' Rose 03:33	buy track
11.	Raw Power 04:39	buy track
12.	Deuce 02:23	buy track
13.	Little Queenie 01:15	buy track
14.	In The Midnight Sabbath 02:13	buy track
15.	Screw The Screw 04:41	buy track

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Hey music fans, it’s the first ever cassette release by the original 1976/77 Gizmos! Side 1 features material originally released on CDR as RAW FIRST TAKES by Slippy Town in 2004. That barely circulated disc contained the previously unreleased first takes of six 1977 Gizmos songs: “Kiss Of The Rat,” “Human Garbage Disposal,” “Cave Woman,” “Hey Beat Mon!,” “Gizmos World Tour,” and “Amerika First.” There’s also a short outtake of a spoken intro from Ted Niemiec. Plus “Muff Divin’ (In Willkie South)” and “Mean Screen” recorded at a drunken teenage party a year before in 1976.

Brand new to this Gulcher tape are six songs recorded in 1976. Listen as northern Indiana hard-rock teen band Cerberus meets Ken Highland and Eddie Flowers in Bob Richert’s Bloomington kitchen for the very first Gizmos rehearsal/jam. They stumble through covers of “Ramblin’ Rose” (MC5), “Raw Power” (Stooges), “Deuce” (Kiss), “Little Queenie” (Chuck Berry), and a weird medley of Black Sabbath and Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour.” Plus an unreleased, barely remembered original called “Screw The Screw.” It was nearly forgotten because as Krazee Ken explains: “The Cerberus guys were trying to screw in maybe a fuzzbox; made up the song on the spot.”

The 1976/77 Gizmos: Ken Highland, Eddie Flowers, Ted Niemiec, Rich Coffee, Dave Sulak, Rick Czajka, Jim DeVries, Davey Medlock, Don Jaskulske. Plus Rich Stim from MX-80 Sound plays sax on “Hey Beat Mon!” Come on, all you Gizmos fans!

--Eddie Flowers, Heavy Mother (2022)

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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. ... more

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