Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Castration Squad - KPFK, Los Angeles 12-80

This band featured some members who had been involved in the Los Angeles Punk scene since the beginning. The line up is: Shannon Wilhelm - vocals, Mary Bat-Thing - vocals (pre-45 Grave), Tiffany Kennedy - keyboard , Tracy Lea - guitar (pre-Red Cross), Alice Armendariz - bass (ex-Bags), Elissa Bello - drums (ex-Go Go's). They never released any records and weren't around for very long. But this live show and a couple videos exist to prove the band once existed. This is from a radio broadcast and the sound quality is excellent.

web page here: http://www.alicebag.com/castrationsquadhome.html
video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpycendTyJo&feature=related
and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUAoRi33vc

setlist: [from cassette tape]
01. We Are Your God
02. Ex-Girlfriend
03. Date With Jack
04. No Mercy For The Dead
05. Blind
06. Sheila
07. Cruella Deville
08. Bat Thing

5 comments:

  1. Will be great to hear this one!

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  2. thanx very much.. :-)

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  3. Thank you for this set. It is worthy of an official release methinks.

    Nathan.G

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  4. Thanks a lot for this one ! Would you mind reuploading it please ? I'm very very late to the party and the link is now dead. But good quality Castration Squad is so rare it would be such a shame to miss this.

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  5. You can download it here: https://archive.org/details/castration-squad-live-on-kpfk-1980

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