Ping Pong over the Abyss

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Ping Pong Over The Abyss
Ping Pong Over The Abyss cover
Studio album by The 77s
Released 1983
Recorded Exit Studios
(Sacramento, California)
Genre Rock / New Wave
Label Exit Records
Producer Steven Soles
The 77s chronology
Rock and Religion Radio Show (1980) Ping Pong Over The Abyss
(1983)		 All Fall Down
(1984)

The 77s released their debut album in 1983 on the Exit Records label.

One song from that album, "Renaissance Man," was later recorded by The Ocean Blue. "It's So Sad," was later rerecorded, with a drastically different arrangement, by Roe's other band, the Lost Dogs for their album MUTT.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "A Different Kind of Light"'
  2. "How Can You Love"
  3. "It's So Sad"
  4. "Falling Down A Hole"
  5. "Someone New" written w/Gene Mascoli

[edit] Side two

  1. "Renaissance Man"
  2. "Ping Pong Over The Abyss"
  3. "Time Is Slipping Away" written w/Gene Mascoli
  4. "Denomination Blues (That's All)"

[edit] Bonus Tracks (CD) *

  1. "A Different Kind Of Light" (Live)
  2. "How Can You Love" (4 - Track Demo)
  3. "It's So Sad" (Live)
  4. "Falling Down A Hole" (Live)
  5. "Ping Pong Over The Abyss" (4 - Track Demo)
  6. "Denomination Blues" (Live)
  • Bonus Tracks originally found on CD's in the 123 boxset.

[edit] The Band

  • Mike Roe on guitars and lead vocals.
  • Mark Tootle on Keyboards, guitars and vocals.
  • Jan Eric on bass guitars and background vocals.
  • Mark Proctor on Drums and vocals.
v • d • e
The 77s
Michael Roe · Mark Harmon · Bruce Spencer
Jan Eric Volz · Aaron Smith · Mark Tootle · Mark Proctor · David Leonhardt
Production
Steven Soles · Charlie Peacock · Robert Musso · Steve Griffith · Brian Healy
Discography
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