SOURMASH RECORDS
Stephen Graziano, the manager and booking agent for Certain General, put together a label called SourMash Records in order to issue music by Phil Gammage and his associated bands in the US. As described by Graziano: “Stressing cooperation, sharing, and interdependence, both Certain General and Band of Outsiders, in partnership, financed, and organized, totally in-house, the first SourMash Records release, Far Away in America.” Band of Outsiders was a band that was reorganized from a late 1970’s power pop band called The Limit. Another band released on SourMash Records was Phil Gammage’s earlier band the Corvairs, which was in New York by this point.
Phil Gammage never made a lot of noise over here, but he has had a productive career through France and elsewhere in Europe. As compiled by Stephen Graziano, this discography that is provided in the SourMash Records tribute on the same website is given below, as an indication of the torrent of music from Phil Gammage over the years. The list is not exhaustive; I mentioned several albums earlier that are not on this list.
Here follows a reprint of the Trouser Press Record Guide (4th Edition) listing for the SourMash family of bands. Though slightly garbled, it presents a fairly accurate overview of our thing in the 1980’s.
Holiday of Love EP (Labor) 1982 November’s Heat (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1984 Reissued w/ bonus tracks (Fr. New Rose) 1990; (Alive) 1999; (Fr. Fantastica) 2002 These Are the Days (Fr. New Rose) 1986 Reissued w/ bonus tracks (Fr. Fantastica 1999) Cabin Fever (Fr. Barclay) 1988 Jacklighter (Fr. Barclay) 1990 Signals from the Source (CBGB) 1999 Closer to the Sun (Fr. Fantastica) 2000 Live at the Public Theater (Fantastica US) 2001 An Introduction to War (SourMash USA) 2002 Invisible New York (Easy Action UK) 2008
CERTAIN GENERAL / BAND OF OUTSIDERS Far Away in America (SourMash) 1984 Far Away in America / The Live Side EP (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1985
Up the River EP (nr/Flicknife) 1985 Everything Takes Forever (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1985 I Wish I Was Your Kid EP (nr/Flicknife) 1985 Longer Than Always EP (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1985 Act of Faith (Fr. Barclay) 1986 Acts of Faith (SourMash) 1987 Armistice Day (Nocturnal) 1989
Temple Fire EP (SourMash) 1984 Sad Hotel EP (SourMash) 1985 Rio Blanco (Cryptovision) 1988 Hitchhiker (Fr. New Rose) 1989 Denver Sessions ’79 (MP3.com) 2001 Unsafe at Any Speed (SourMash USA) 2006
Night Train (Fr. New Rose) 1990 Kneel to the Rising Sun (Fr. New Rose) 1991 20th Anniv. Reissue (2011) Cry of the City (Marilyn) 1993 Lowlife Street (Fr. Last Call 1999 Motel Songs (SourMash USA) 2002
Playtime (nr/Conviction) 1990 (Behemoth) 1991
(March 2015)
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