Pussy Galore / Tad – Damaged II / Damaged I (7″, US)

June 1989 issue of Sub Pop singles club featuring Tad and Pussy Galore performing covers of songs which were originally released by Black Flag on their album Damaged (RELEASE / LYRICS).

Pussy Galore recorded at Damaged II and Seattle (released as a bootleg 7″ single) at the same time with Kramer at Noise Studios, NYC.

The cover photo is by Charles Peterson taken at the Vogue, Seattle, WA, US (24 October 1988).

The Pussy Galore recording of Damaged II was only officially released on this single but it did feature as a bonus track on a bootleg release of Exile On Main St. and the bootleg compilation Fuck Me I’m Rare.

“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. Tad – Damaged I
Writers: H. Rollins/G. Ginn
© 1984 Cesstone Music (BMI)
Recorded by Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording, Seattle.
Run Time: 2:40

BARCODE: n/a

RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING:
A: “SP-37-A Kdisc ck L-33340”
B: “SP-37-A Kdisc ck L-33340-X”