I’m not really sure there is much to say about this download, other than it’s Flipper (so it’s fucking awesome)and the title sums up the contents of the tape. So instead, I’ll let Mark Prindle introduce the band to those of you who do not already know Flipper. He’s much funnier and way more knowledgeable than I am.
“Flipper was one of the leading punk rock bands over in San Francisco in the early- to mid-80s, giving a big “frig you” to the rest of the punk scene by playing a louder SLOWER mess of the blues that relied wholly on attitude and bass line. See, the guitarist just played a bunch of scraggly noise. So the drummer would play his little rhythm and if they weren’t too doped up, one of the two bass players (Will Shatter or Bruce Lose) would try to keep in time enough to play a catchy four-note bass line for you to tap your toe to. Then the OTHER of the two bassists (whichever one wasn’t playing bass at the time) would yell some words that would seem nihilistic but would also occasionally make a statement about how important it is to rise above all the garbage that life throws at you and SURVIVE. They also had a great sense of humor (sample lyric: “Who cares anyway/who it is or what I say?/This song rhymes/And we play it in time!”). Unfortunately drug habits have dogged the band since day one, resulting in one premature death and one immature reunion. Great ass band though, giving us more catchy bass lines than any band since The Tarney Spencer Group or whatever that band was that did that Run For Your Life album that my dad used to have. I don’t know. I never actually listened to it, but if an album was going to have great bass lines, then it was bound to be that one. I mean, just LOOK at it. It LITERALLY screams “catchy bass lines”. Over and over again. Eventually we had to lock it in the basement.”
Flipper
Unreleased Studio Session Tape 1982
MegaUpload DL Link
Tracklist:
01. Sacrifice
02. In Your Arms
03. You Naught Me
04. Survivors Of The Plague
05. In Life, My Friends
06. One By One
07. Now Is The Time
08. On And On
09. In The Garden
10. First The Heart
11. I Want To Talk
12. Get Away
13. Talk’s Cheap
14. The Light, The Sound, The Rhythm, The Noise
15. Vali
