{"product_id":"paris-1942-paris-1942-vinyl","title":"Paris 1942 - Paris 1942 - Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Difficult as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Sun City Girls did not exist. Prior to the Bishop brothers teaming up with drummer\/shaman Charlie Gocher to form SCG's classic trio lineup, there were various ad-hoc assemblages of local Phoenix-area freaks and weirdos-groups which existed only long enough to play a single gig, open mic or house party before disbanding without a trace. Hatched from this milieu was Paris 1942, a short-lived band formed by guitarist Jesse Srogoncik that included Alan Bishop, Richard Bishop and former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Paris 1942 would play only four shows in as many months, but between April and August of 1982, the band would gather several times a week in Tucker's living room, where the group feverishly wrote and rehearsed with a kind of quotidian discipline. While P42 didn't release anything during their brief tenure, a 7\" EP and LP (both self-titled) surreptitiously surfaced on the Majora label in the mid to late '90s. Until now, those two titles-as well as an appearance on Placebo's Amuck comp in late '82-would be the only documented evidence that this improbable, serendipitous and magnificent band ever existed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"While those expecting P42's music to sound like a tantalizing combination of Sun City Girls' iconoclastic hoodoo havoc and the Velvets' primal drug-chug certainly won't be disappointed, Paris 1942 more often than not transcends even these nearly impossible expectations. Srogoncik's songs, in particular, are a revelation, displaying as much in common with the exuberant raunch of The Gun Club and the chapbook punk of Peter Laughner as they do any of the more obvious touchstones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The group's foresight to document and capture this meeting of musical minds-a meeting as unlikely as it was short-lived-provides a missing link between the Velvets and the Voidoids, between the Dead Boys and the Dead C, between ESP-Disk' and DNA. Far more than a historical curiosity, Paris 1942 provides a fresh perspective on an embryonic and sadly vanishing US underground. It is music that blinks at the past and anticipates a thousand possible futures.\" -James Toth (excerpt from the liner notes)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eTracks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Paris 1942\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Hex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Headhunter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Radar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Damon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Ancient Time Foretold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Animale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Move Out of Wichita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Catherine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Life Is a Killer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Conversation with My Girlfriend\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Voodoo Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Pontius Pilate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Lions Paw\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Boy from the North Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Fossil in My Pants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. What I Think I Mean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Lisa's Whip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. Southwind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Revolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52870334972211,"sku":null,"price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/8859\/2179\/files\/4454281-3444972.jpg?v=1766527933","url":"https:\/\/pancakes-records.com\/products\/paris-1942-paris-1942-vinyl","provider":"PANCAKES RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}