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Raleigh, NC
April 21, 1978
audience recording (sound quality VG; well-recorded club show with a few anomalies, as expected from a source tape of this vintage). Most likely the first of two sets, the second of which is missing. Last-ever show by H-Bombs!
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“Now that we’re dead,
we suggest you listen to Elvis." |
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| Page from one of those wacky self-made H-Bombs 'zines |
Repercussion: H-Bombs were the post-Sneakers and pre-dB’s, pre-Let’s Active group that Peter and Mitch Easter were both in. Further info can be found at this earlier H-Bombs post.
01 Sixty-five Comet
02
Stuck On You^
03
Looking 'Round Corners
04 No Wonder^
05
Take Me Back In Your Arms Again
06
Mind Your Manners
07
Big Black Truck
08 Kicks (Paul Revere & The Raiders cover)
09
Good Thing (Paul Revere & The Raiders cover)
10
Good-Bye*
11
Komm Gibb Mir Deine Hand (Beatles
cover, in German)
12
You Can't Catch Me (Chuck
Berry cover)
^Sneakers covers
^Sneakers covers
*titles of this is a guess; corrections welcome from you nutty H-Bombs fans!
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Mr. Will Rigby wrote a florid review of a
non-existent H-Bombs album for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel. (Confused? I think that was the point…) |
H-Bombs:
Peter Holsapple: guitar,
vocals
Mitch Easter: guitar,
vocals
Robert Keely: bass,
vocals
Chris Chamis: drums
Learn more about H-Bombs from Fred Mills’ excellent essay at
N.C. Music History Dot Com
Always love me some H-Bombs! World's greatest unreleased artists....
ReplyDeleteHow true -- the aural force, the oft-misunderstood humor, the utter humanity of it all. How can one do it justice with mere words?!?
Delete#4 is 'No Wonder', which like #2, did get a release via Sneakers.... But can't believe more of thse tracks never got the chance...
ReplyDelete#8 is 'Kicks' by Paul Revere & The Raiders
DeleteThe other two, well, not ringing a bell enough to sleuth yet...
DeleteThanks for your detective work, WTS -- will make the changes as you note.
DeleteHere's your answer a decade later (sorry for the delay)... both are also Paul Revere and the Raiders covers:
ReplyDelete09 Cruel World* = Good Thing
10 Good-Bye* = Just Like Me