Pussy Galore – Seattle [Grey] (7″, US)

Unofficial bootleg release issued on grey, purple and black vinyl.

The labels are stuck on back to front with the text facing inwards. Some of the text is visible on the white side of the labels (see images).

nb. although the sleeve states that Seattle is “Live in Seattle ’89” it was recorded in Noise Studios, NYC by Kramer with vocals by Bob Bert at the same time as the Sub Pop single Damaged II.

Seattle is a re-located cover of London Boys by Johnny Thunders from the album So Alone and was officially released on the Melody Maker compilation Gigantic 2.

SM-57 was officially released on Sound Blasts! EP3 7″ and Dial ‘M’ For Motherfucker.

“JS: Its weird it is on that… I thought we did that as part of a Sub Pop single? I think that ‘Seattle’ is a version of the Heartbreaker song ‘London Boys’ which is a put down. It’s a diss track, and we (Pussy Galore) were asked to do a split single with Tad. They were on Sub Pop and we had done a tour together (Pussy Galore and Tad) and we liked the band we liked their music and were friends with them, so we said let’s do a split single with Pussy Galore and Tad. So what we proposed was we do the Heartbreaker song but do it as ‘Seattle Boys’ and they should do, what’s the Pistols song that has that diss song you know it has that line ‘everybody knows Japan is a dishpan’? (Jon goes off to Google the track as both of us go blank) ‘New York’!

So we said Tad should do this and then they didn’t want to do it and I can’t remember why – it was something like we don’t like the Sex Pistols or some kind of response they didn’t want to do it and we couldn’t understand it – we were like “What?” So then we were like “How about we both do a Black Flag song?”, so one of us did ‘Damaged’ and the other did ‘Damaged II’. So when we went into the studio and recorded our version of Black Flag, we did the Thunders song anyway. They must of asked permission of me or Pussy Galore to put that on the cassette. I hope they are not bootlegging us, but thank you and I am glad you liked it.” – Jon Spencer / JoyZine.org (14 April 2022)

B. SM-57
Writers: Spencer/Galore
“‘Dial M’ Outtake”

BARCODE: n/a

RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING:
A: ‘SHOOVE-007-A’*
B: ‘SHOOVE-007-B’

*The engraving on Side-A has a ‘B’ written and crossed out immediately before the ‘A’.

The actual engraving is: ‘SHOOVE-007-B-A’ (with the ‘B’ scribbled out).