Rock City - Various Artists1980 - Gammon Records
01. The Lifers - Missing Person
02. Two Tones - Raggae Woman
03. Two Tones - Random Riff
04. Elements of Style - Oh Bob
05. Elements of Style - Sacred Object
06. JJ180 - Factory Limits
07. Imposters - Trouble
08. Imposters - Leave Me Alone
09. Ultrasheen - Super Bad
10. Ultrasheen - Danceannette
11. Dickheads - (S)he Loves You
12. Ace & The Eights - Dead End
13. Ace & The Eights - Touch of Style
Rock City was a San Francisco night club located at Broadway and Montgomery Street, close to the location of other well-known venues such as the Mabuhay Gardens and The Stone. While it was short-lived, they managed to put out a compilation of artists that played the club. I included scans of the front and back cover and the disc labels, and I found some information in an online scan of the October issue of Damage magazine about some of the bands. Flac files of wavs. This was digitized from a sealed copy of the album.
While all of these fell under "punk" at the time, the styles are actually all over the place. Ultrasheen does a funk cover of James Brown's "Super Bad," and the Two Tones are a reggae band.
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I used to hang here a lot and same with a lot of the other venues you mentioned. I played the Mabuhay (we were a fave of Ness Aquino's......free food dude) and the stone often. Thanks for posting this unusual but memory filled, for me, item.
ReplyDeleteWhat band? I played there in late '82 early '83 a three or four times, also across the street at the Chi Chi Club, as part of a rockabilly group named the Corvairs (not the punk Corvairs, who were playing in the late '70s).
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