Nice litte record by this four piece - Scott (vocals), Kurt (guitars), Al (bass) & Dave (drums) - from Seattle and we enjoy three brilliant tracks, their only official record released on No Threes Records. In 2015 a Compilation, See You Next Year, Fuckbrains, was released, featuring additional recordings from 1978/1979, all previously unreleased. It came in a limited edition of 200 copies on blue vinyl and a four-page picture book. The info is used from this slab: "The Cheaters began in late 1977, like many other bands of their time, high school friends who wanted to “form a band” and finding their outlet in Punkrock music. Brothers Kurt & Al Bloch writing songs and practicing in their parents’ basement. With no money to record properly, they began a year of basement tapes, very crude to begin with, but as the playing improved, so did their “one-track” recordings. Saving up enough money to record and release a Single in late 1979, they promptly disintegrated live on stage in October of that year." - They are represented on a few Compis and all essential.
Didn't those guys go on to form Young Fresh Fellows ? The name Kurt Bloch sounds familiar. But I thought they were Canadian.
ReplyDeleteThat's right, but definitely not Canada.
DeleteSeek out the just issued Cheaters oral history via Spilt Tooth Media. 66 page 'zine with 2 CD's worth of music.
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