I Can't Eat This

Archive for the ‘1981’ Category

Melodic Orange County Hardcore as its best! Their selftitled debut album is a must have. Full of catching melodies, rock’n'roll influenced guitars played by Rikk and Frank Agnew, straight, melodic bass playing by Steve Soto, and the perfect fitting voice of Tony Cadena, a.k.a. Tony Montana, who formed the often underrated and overlooked Flower Leperds after the Adolescents split. They were reformed in the 1990′s, but changed their name to Adz, maybe ‘coz they were no adolescents anymore. The first Adz album was recorded with the original line-up (Tony, Casey, Rikk & Steve, not Frank), but has no real great songs on it. But the second one “Piper At The Gates of Downey“, comes very close to “Brats in Battalions“. That’s remarkable, because Tony was the only left original member.

But back to 1981:

This is nearly the original line-up w/ Casey Royer (the guy who wears the selfmade swastika-sweater (yeah!) on the first LP) on drums. He later became singer for D.I.. Rikk Agnew was replaced by Steve Roberts, what I find strange, because I think the guy with the military cap on the cover is Rikk. Does anyone know what has happened?
They play three songs that were also issued on the second album “Brats in Battalions” in 1986. The versions featured here sound as they were recorded at the same session as the first LP, but there is nothing mentioned on the cover. Maybe someone who knows more about it could post some infos?

This EP came in nice dark purple vinyl. I think it’s a repress, because it has number 2056 on its back.

Enjoy!

Welcome To Reality
Losing Battle
Things Start Moving

I finally did some research and found this out: The Adolescents and the Adz are both (still) playing (again). You can find more Infos on the Adolescents-Website or on their myspace profile.