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1) Intro / Being ripped off |
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LINE-UP:
[songs # 1-8 and 14-22]
Giulio the Bastard - vocals
Alberto the Crippler - guitar
Gigi Pacino - bass
Walter Dr. Tomas - drums
[songs # 9-13]
Giulio the Bastard - vocals
Alberto the Crippler - guitar
Stefano Arturo - bass
Paolo Arturo - drums
NOTES:
>> released in 1999, AQ 020, no info on how
many copies made
>> packed in a wonderful mini-gatefold sleeve
>> due to a manifacturing mistake, the CD
codes are completely fucked up
and weren't synchronized with the beginning of each track
>> songs 1-6 live in Lubijana (Slovenia)
@ "Metelkova" open air, June '97 //
songs 7-8 live in Krško (Slovenia) open air, June '97 //
songs 9-22 live @ CSA "Treblinka" in Udine (Italy) - Sept. 1996 +
May 1997 //
ADDITIONAL QUOTES:
this 3" fucker quickly became a real cult-item for many italian fans due
to the idea of combining fast nihilistic music with cursing God in italian slang
between the songs. This happens above all on the last show (Udine, May '97)
where CB had a psychotic guest on stage inventing some of the most blasphemous
bullshits ever published on an Italian record. Of course this makes no sense
for a foreign listener, but in Italy this quickly became a widespread gag and
CB were expected to do it again and again at all their shows. This turned into
such a ridicuolus excess (people goin' to see CB mainly for hearing GTB cursing
rather than listening to the music) that we decided to radically cut it off
from a CB performance. But the "blasphemous Grind" formula influenced
a good number of bands in the local scene and was kept alive by them. This Mini
CD collects 4 different CB shows from '96 to '97. The older (Sept. '96) had
2 guys of Arturo as temporary drummer + bassplayer and took place in Udine,
opening for DOOM. The label that published this was on parole with GTB since
'95, when this was done we weren't too satisfied of working with them and anyway,
there's a terrible gossip saying that the money they got from us for co-producing
this was a lot higher than the actual expense, so they made the whole press
with our cash and got for free the most of it. We never made clear if this was
true or not, but a lot of things concerning this 3" were very misterious.
Anyway, the best quote to describe its content is the following - taken from
the back cover:
"22 songs, no matter which ones and why just those ones, what really impresses
is the way this is performed, the intent of violence and extremism hidden behind.
The fastest, the filthiest. Every single second... like a personal challenge.
Hands bleed, throat explodes scream after scream, but pain is worthless... hatred
prevails. Crudeness, verbal violence, that minimalistic style acquired from
the sickest branches of italian '70s culture... unholy and vicious, controversial
and cruel. Against you, against themselves, against EVERYTHING.
This is the Cripple Bastards in 3 inches of plastic".
TRACKLIST