![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Youd never know it from these performances they crackle with a defiant energy that asserts not only the bands claim to a stardom they were denied, but also a claim to the power of rock itself as a cultural force. The April release of the film Valley Girl had included the Plimsouls A Million Miles Away from Everywhere at Once, and the band was probably as popular as they had ever been as a consequence. Two shows featuring recordings from 1981, One Night Alive in America and Live, Beg, Borrow and Steal did a fine job of establishing the Plimsouls live authority.īeach Town Confidential, a 1983 show recorded at the Golden Bear Club in Huntington, California, newly released on Alive Records, is even better. In their short, sweet life they recorded a stripped down ep ( Zero Hour ), and two full-length albums 1981s self-titled record and Everywhere at Once from 1983.īut generally, fans were of the opinion that they didnt quite capture everything that made the Plimsouls a great live act.Īs if to prove this point, since their disbanding in 19834 weve seen the release of three live Plimsouls recordings, equaling (exceeding, given that their first record was an ep) their studio output (omitting 1998s reunion release Kool Trash, which is pretty darn good). The dream of a universal rock language, the one that cemented the popularity and the legacies of everyone from the Beatle and Stones to the Kinks and the Who had already collapsed into a tower of FM-babble by the time that Big Star, the Flamin Groovies and the New York Dolls had all (relatively speaking) f lopped. They had all the classic elements necessary for rock stardom (songs, looks, etc.), except the Seventies shifted that celestial alignment (see prog-rock, Malibu, disco ) forever. I suppose they got the power-pop label laid on them because they had raw drive (power) and they didnt sound like unskilled, unschooled half-asses (pop). Their sub-genre inspirations ranged from Merseybeat to rhythm n blues to freak-beat. The Fleshtones Keith Streng, contemporary and East Coast fellow traveler, joins the band for a spirited romp through the Flamin Groovies Jumpin in the Night, while their pals the Williams Brothers lend their voices to the Everlys Price of Love.Īnd while the Plimsouls were contemporaries with bands lumped into the punk category the band never self-identified as punk.Īnd if energy and succinct songs were the criteria, few bands did it better than the Plimsouls. ![]()
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