Battle of the Garages

Anyway.

And so today I was listening to one of my most cherished of all compilation albums, Battle of the Garages, which I first picked up, I believe, in 1992, mostly because I finally it was the end to my lifelong quest.

Well, it was probably four years at the time.

to get the original version of Left in the Dark, The Vertebrates.

Kind of like the Violent Femmes first album, like that's a huge hit where it is, but outside of that, nobody cares and yet they do.

I don't know, that's confusing.

Anyway, yeah, it was on this Battle of the Garages compilation album.

Also, it was the first time I heard Letter Dance, the Bobby Fuller song.

Yeah, subsidy of, uh, or subsidiary of the Bomp! record label.

Um, uh, yeah, that one was called Battle of the Garages number one.

Not only does it have the Chesterfield Kings, but some Slicky Boys, Wombats, and Deniz Tek, or Deniz Tek.

Yeah, Deniz Tek from, uh, Radio Birdman.

Yeah, I'm stuck in CD land on this one, and I've never seen that one in the wild, so I might have to go on ye olde Discogs and grab one.

The CD and the vinyl are both on the Chameleon Records label, and they landed in the shops back in '89.

That Battle of the Garages was from '81, and that's ground rule number seven and a half.

Something like that, yes.

But yeah, great Northern Soul on the Imperial label.

You can check out a really interesting compilation of Clyde E. King's work called The Imperial and Minute Years, released, I guess it was 2007 or so, I think it was.

I came across a number of her sides thanks to that compilation.

I only knew a few of them.

I did know something of her biography.

So we were always a studio band.

We never even played a gig.

Greg Shaw from Bomp Records and Bomp Magazine was an early supporter and chose our song Return to the Psychedelic to be the lead track on his compilation, Battle of the Garages, Volume 1, which was released in 81 on the new Bump subsidiary label, Vox.