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New Bomb Turks release âNightmare Scenario - Diamond Editionâ with unheard mixes, bonus track, & re-mastered by Jim Diamond. All monies to go to Black Lives Matter organizations in Columbus, Ohio.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Nightmare Scenario, New Bomb Turksâ fifth full-length album, third for the Los Angeles based Epitaph Records, and first with drummer Sam Brown (Operators, Divine Fits, RJD2, Gaunt).
Recorded by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, Detroit, MI, November 3-7, 1999. These are the original mixes by Jim Diamond and have been re-mastered by Jim Diamond July 2020.
Diamondâs production credits include Red Aunts, White Stripes, Clone Defects, The Sights, Bantam Rooster, Nathaniel Mayer, Andre Williams, Dirtbombs, Nikki Corvette, Seger Liberation Army, Baseball Furries, Scat Rag Boosters, Little Killers, The Cynics, Scott Morgan, The Sonics, Los Sexareenos, Mr. Airplane Man, The Go, The Fells, The Dirtys, Electric Six, Paybacks, Easy Action, Fleshtones, Patsys, Guilty Pleasures TO NAME A FEW.
Cover design by Henry H. Owings (Chunklet/Five Minute Flyers). Photo by Ewolf
Available digitally (for now) August 7, 2020 at newbombturks.bandcamp.com
100% of proceeds will be donated to: Black Queer & Intersectional Collective and Columbus Freedom Fund
Press Inquiries: Jo Murray Â
It was spring, 1999. New Bomb Turks had just returned from their first tour of Australia in a suspended animation. They soon procured ace drumsman, dessert aficionado [not a typo], and all-around great guy, Sam Brown. It suddenly felt like a brand new beast, but they had an album to deliver forthwith, and nary a new song in sight! Nails were chomped to the cuticle, empty beer cans sat in the corner mocking usâŚ
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes (or at least like a bartender finding another unopened bottle of mezcal at last call), New Bomb Turks soared again. Within four months (May-August 1999), Sam slipped right into the NBT stool, 12 new songs were cooked up easy as fryinâ an egg, and they were back on the road with the Hellacopters to hash those new ones into place.
By the time the band got to Jim Diamondâs Ghetto Recorders studio in Detroit â his rep revving up from production jobs with the curdled cream of that Detroit trash-rock scene (Clone Defects, Detroit Cobras, Dirtbombs, White Stripes, Andre Williams) â New Bomb Turks were piqued like a baby screaminâ for a higher push on a swing set.
Over four days and nights, the band enjoyed their easiest and most fun recording session â the only break being a jaunt over to a bar to see a reunited Real Kids, their first show in years, which floored the band and only added more mezcal to the fire.
Final mixes were left to Jim Diamond, and by the time he forwarded them to the band, overdub ideas had hatched, and about half the record was remixed with local studio wiz, Jeff Graham, in Columbus. A middle ground was eventually found, and what resulted was Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph Records, 2000) â the fifth album in their six album/three compilation catalog, and the one the band believe is their best.
Like every band ever, the years have supplied moments of mixing rumination. So last year, when the band saw the 20th anniversary of Nightmare Scenario right up on their ass, they asked Jim Diamond if he had his original mixes lying around his palatial estate. He found them on a DAT (look it up, kids) tucked underneath a pile of professional recording deck manuals (i.e., old MAD mags). Lo and behold, they were even more ripping and burning and stinging than remembered. There was the 20th birthday idea, screaminâ like a brat!
So here you have the original mixes of Nightmare Scenario that Jim Diamond finished in November 1999, ensconced deep in his legendary, now torn-down Detroit digs. Ainât saying itâs better than the original, just leaner and meaner. But donât take our word for it â take yours when youâre screaminâ along too!
-Lance Forth (NBT Biographer), July 2020 Astoria, NY
New Bomb Turks in the hallway of Ghetto Recorders, Detroit, November 1999. Test Polaroid by Ewolf
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