Live Nation

I have so many new releases that I need to get posted up here before the year closes out, and here I am mucking about with a new reissue. I may have actually let this one slip me by, but when I saw Marcus post about it this summer, I found myself influenced into picking it up.

In June of this year, there was a memorial show for Big Frank Harrison that featured a ton of great older bands, and it would have been great if I had the forethought to plan a trip out to Cali to check it out... but I seem to be out of the loop with hardcore most of the time, and didn't fully realize what was going on until Marcus over from the UK that weekend for the show. In any case, as Big Frank was a member of Carry Nation, the band decided to reissue their one 7 inch to help raise some additional money for Frank's daughter. This alone made it a worthwhile purchase, but what really sold me was how great the record looked.

The gold vinyl and the new cover design looked so good that I needed to buy this.

The nice thing about this 7 inch is that there aren't 10 different pressings to collect. You just get the original black and clear vinyl pressings from 1989, and then the newest reissue. Got to like it when record collecting doesn't get stupid and just keeps things simple.

Confession time. I've never owned, or been too interested in the No Control At The Country Club live 7 inch that Nemesis put out in 1990. I don't know... one live song each from four bands never really appealed to me as a music consumer (hey, at least the East Meets West live comp had the unreleased Carry Nation song Temple Walls)... and while maybe I should track one down at some point to appear as a real record collector, I've just never made it a priority. For the Big Frank memorial show, the band decided to press all five songs from their Country Club set to wax, and that was something that I could get behind more than the original live comp.

This is a cool recording to have. The drums sound a bit annoying at the start of Grave Mistake, but overall, it is a good reminder of how good the band was, and hearing the song Thinking Of You for the first time here just makes me wish that we got more from Carry Nation.