MIKE REP AND THE QUOTAS - Rocket To Nowhere 7"

Central Ohio is far more of a schitzophrenic hotbed of rock than the Library of Alexandria would lead you to believe. If you squint your eyes past the big city lights & skyscrapers (Rep likes to call them “DIEscrapers”) , you can see the outlines of the fertile Ohio Vallley Crescent from which much Midwest D.I.Y. Punk emerged in the aftermath of a late-60’s/early-70’s gestation period. When digging into the Columbus strata of petrified 70’s fossil-rock pure Columbus area underground entities bubble up from the deep: Jim Shepard, Ron House, Tommy Jay, Nudge Squidfish, The Quotas, Screaming Urge… many more. It seems that in some way or another Mike Rep has been intertwined with, “Lovingly Fucking With”, melding with, accompanying and/or leading the charge with many comrades in arms into the hipster Ohio Hell unknown for 40+ freaking years.

Just the right mixture of humidity, THC & malt liqour-fueled a primal pool ripe for spontaneous generation producing much fruit from apparant sterile soil as viewed from the overlook of big city coastal-dominated Hipsterism. Rep’s homemade debut single “Rocket To nowhere” was recorded in 1975/ “released” in 1978 and nobody noticed for the next ten years. If they had they would have found a full primal serving of mind-numbing, eyeball-popping guttural PURE DIY ROCK & ROLL chaos that would cause future generations to marvel at just how one could be so brutally honest, raw, and wasted all at the same time.

Official reissue out on Mighty Mouth Music, part of the Last Laugh / Almost Ready / Mighty Mouth label conglomerate.

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