#mike rep

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Tommy JAY & Mike REP

"The Grim-o Comix Sequence"

(LP. Columbus Discount rcds. 2010 / rec. 1974-75) [US]

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SEX TIDE rules, and here’s their new vid featuring Mike Rep.

https://sextide.bandcamp.com

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Mike REP & The QUOTAS

"Hellbender"

(LP. Hozak rcds. 2016 / rec. 1975-78) [US]

Hellbender 1975-78 Rare & Unreleased, by Mike Rep and the Quotas

13 track album

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Sam ESH & HARD BLACK THING

"Montezuma Baby Duck"

(LP. Siltbreeze. 1994) [US]

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Tommy JAY & Mike REP “The Grim-o Comix Sequence” (LP. Columbus Discount rcds. 2010 / rec. 1974-75) [US]

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 Tommy Jay makes some very nice Velvet Underground-ish mixed with hints of psych. His voice is really good and I love how he switches between regular vocals to seemingly random whispers. The strumming and guitar bends are also somewhat Tom Verliaine-ish or even The lo-fi tape warbles aren’t really an effect I’d image as this may have been just a garage or bedroom recordng. I got to listen to the whole CD and review for KZSU (Stanford radio) back in ‘08 as the great Columbus Discount Records were sending us a lotta stuff. I seemed to think it sounded more Jonathan Richman-ish but I dunno now.                              Jay has played in a variety of other local bands like Mike Rep & The Quotas (who’s work goes back to at least 1977 with their excellent “Rocket to Nowhere” 7″ but more on that another time), Ron House with his band Twisted Shouts  (who also was in 80′s band Great Plains as well as a big fave of mine, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments), JAYFISH which seems to be his more experimental side, and some bands I’ve not yet heard: Creeper Ohio, Ego Summit (with Don Howland of Bassholes, the organ-heavy power-pop/garage rawk of True Believers (back in 1980), as well as varations like Tommy Jay & Friends and the Tommy Jay Band. 

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