from the 7” single, Hearthan Records, 1976Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts tightly and don your helmets because you are about to enter the angular & deep-kneed world of Ubu, a group so far-out that they managed to be post-punk before there was even a fully established punk scene; this isn’t surprising to anyone familiar with the band members’ roots in famous proto-punk gang Rocket From the Tombs (RFtT), whose breakup in 1975 morphed into both Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys. “Singer” Dave Thomas (a.k.a. Crocus Behemoth, and never has there been a more fitting alias for a rock singer, both in tangible form and sound) and guitarist Peter Laughner had been in RFtT and wanted to take things in a more experimental direction, enlisting the help of some other Cleveland buddies of theirs to form Ubu; this early track is one of the more pop-friendly tunes they ever played, and sadly, Laughner was dead within a year from its release due to hard drug & alcohol abuse.
