BEATFOR38 - The Zippers

The Zippers

Side 1
1. I'm In Love 2. It Hurts 3. Some Pay The Price (Some Never Will)
Side 2
4. Falling Off The Edge 5. Someday 6. Lock In My Heart

[Mini album Rhino Records 1981]
Prod. Ray Manzarek
All Tracks : B. Willingham

Bob Willingham : Vocal, Guitars
Danielle Faye : Bass, Vocals
Lewis Cammarata : Guitars, Vocals
Malcolm Murphy : Drums

“ Upon arriving in Los Angeles in 1975, the onset of the burgeoning Punk Rock/ New Wave scene a year later was a cultural besotting for Cammarata. Punch drunk with the sheer audacity of the cultural dadaism, it was another year before he found his place. That place was helping to put together seminal pop/punk band The Zippers. Sharing stages with cultural icons like The Blasters, Patti Smith, The Buzzcocks, and John Cale, the band built a hard core following from San Diego to Houston to Tokyo. Their debut single on Back Door Man Records, He's A Rebel b/w You're So Strange, made a decent local splash, and was eventually featured in the Dennis Christopher film "Fade to Black". Eventually teaming with former Doors publicist Danny Sugerman, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the band released a six song "mini-lp" in 1980 on Rhino Records. Several of the songs have since been appropriated for use on half a dozen different punk/pop collections. Despite being lavished with critical acclaim from the likes of LA Times' Robert Hilburn ("the best unsigned band in America"), renowned pop critic and historian Don Waller ("angelic four part harmonies surrounded by four chords and a cloud of dust") internal issues caused the disbanding of the group soon after...” Lewis Ray Cammarata

Ray Manzarek produced this six-song mini-album for LA's Zippers, a longstanding punk outfit with strong pop tendencies. Although once strictly a tough club band, the tracks here expose a mature, musical quartet with songs and skills aplenty; the mood runs hot and cold. A neat record, but deduct points for swiping the Small Faces' "What'cha Gonna Do About It" for an "original," "I'm in Love." [Ira Robbins] Trouser Press.

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