Beach Blvd

Beach Blvd
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released Summer 1979
Recorded November 1978 - July 1979
Studio Media Art
Genre Punk rock
Length 31:39
Language English
Label Posh Boy
Producer Robbie Fields

Beach Blvd is a seminal compilation album featuring early Californian punk rock artists.

Overview

An influential sampler LP, Beach Blvd helped to ushering in the forthcoming hardcore punk movement in suburban Southern California, aided by DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who gave the record its first airplay on his weekly radio show Rodney on the ROQ at KROQ-FM.[1][2][3] Conceived by the controversial Robbie "Posh Boy" Fields,[nb 1][1][2][3][4][5] the album gathered three bands with quite different musical styles: The Crowd[6][7] from Huntington Beach, Rik L Rik[8][9][10] from West Covina, and Simpletones from Rosemead.[2][4][11]

The record title advertised the music's suburban origins: California State Route 39, known as Beach Boulevard in Orange County, ran inland from the Crowd's hometown to Rik L Rik's.[3]

Production

Produced by Robbie Fields,[2][3][4] all songs on Beach Blvd were recorded and mixed from November 1978 to July 1979 at Media Art Studios in Hermosa Beach, California.

The tracks credited to Rik L Rik are remixes[nb 2] of demo recordings done by the third lineup of Negative Trend[9][12] in November 1978.[13] This versions features bass overdubs by Jay Lansford, who also added a new guitar track on "Atomic Lawn".[13]

Beach Blvd was mastered by Lanky Linstrot at Wally Heider's Mobile Recording Truck, based in Hollywood, California.

Release

Only three songs featured on Beach Blvd were previously released: Simpletones' "California" was the lead tune on the eponymous 7-inch single record[nb 3][14] from early 1979; while "Meat House" and "I Got Power" were issued as a Rik L Rik 7-inch single[nb 4][13][15] in mid-1979.

Accompanied by liner notes provided by Bingenheimer,[3] Beach Blvd was originally released by Posh Boy Records in the summer of 1979, on 12-inch LP record.[nb 5][4] The album was also the Crowd's recorded debut.

Reissues

In 1981, Posh Boy Records issued a rare edition of Beach Blvd on Compact Cassette[nb 6][16] that included, as bonus tracks, the entire Red Cross EP[nb 7] by Redd Kross from Hawthorne, California.[17]

The original release on 12-inch vinyl disc was repressed in 1986.

In 1990, Posh Boy issued a 29-track extended version on CD[nb 8][2] featuring liner notes by Fields and Tony Cadena. Bonus tracks included almost half of Like It or Not Live!,[nb 9][18] the only album by the short-lived West Covina band F-Word!,[9][10] recorded live at San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens in the spring of 1978 and released posthumously that same year. The 1990 CD edition also added six more Simpletones songs: "I Like Drugs", the flip side of the single "California"[nb 3] from 1979; "TV Love" from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 10][19] the first of Bingenheimer's compilations, originally issued in 1980;[20][21] "Disco Ape" (aka "You Drive Me (Disco) Ape"), an unreleased Lansford arrangement of the Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)" from 1978; and tracks 13, 15 and 17, all released for the first time. The 1990 edition closed with three additional cuts by the Crowd: "Right Time", also from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 10] along with "Desmond and Kathy" and an instrumental rendition of the Archies' "Melody Hill" from 1969, both issued on their first studio album, A World Apart[nb 11][22] from 1981.

In 1991, the original compilation was included in Richard Elerick's History of Rik L Rik,[nb 12][15][23] a numbered 3-LP box set, in conjunction with F-Word!'s album Like It or Not Live![nb 9] and Rik L Rik's The Lost Album[nb 13][15][24] from 1991.

In 2004, under license from Posh Boy, the Italian label Get Back re-released the 1979 12-inch LP.[nb 14]

The following year, Get Back released a 24-song Digipak CD edition,[nb 14] an abridged version of the 1990 edition.

Track listings

1979: LP

Side A
No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Kirsty Q"  Jay LansfordSimpletones 2:50
2. "I Have a Date"  Lansford, Richard W. ScottSimpletones 2:29
3. "Tiger Beat Twist"  Lansford, Eric Kiertzner, David PerrySimpletones 2:02
4. "Black and Red"  Craig GrayRik L Rik 3:56
5. "Meat House"  Will Shatter, Craig GrayRik L Rik 2:44
6. "Suzy Is a Surf Rocker"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:21
7. "Living in Madrid"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:20
8. "Trix Are for Kids"  The CrowdThe Crowd 0:51
Side B
No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Modern Machine"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:29
2. "New Crew"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:16
3. "I Got Power"  Rik L Rik, Craig GrayRik L Rik 1:31
4. "Mercenaries"  Shatter, GrayRik L Rik 2:36
5. "Atomic Lawn"  L Rik, GrayRik L Rik 2:07
6. "Don't Bother Me"  LansfordSimpletones 2:16
7. "California"  LansfordSimpletones 2:51
Total length:
 31:39

1981: Cassette

1990: CD

2005: CD in Digipak

Personnel

Simpletones[14]
Simpletones (1990 edition)
  • Snickers - Vocals (13, 14, 16)
  • Kendall - Vocals (13)
  • Jerry - Vocals (12, 13, 15, 17)
Rik L Rik
  • Richard Elerick (best known as Rik L Rik) - Vocals
  • Craig Gray - Guitar
  • Jay Lansford - Bass, lead guitar (B5)
  • Tim Mooney - Drums
The Crowd
  • Jim "Trash" Decker - Vocals
  • James Kaa (credited as Jim K) - Lead guitar
  • Tracy Porterfield - Guitar
  • Jay Decker - Bass
  • Barry "Cuda" Miranda - Drums
  • Dennis Walsh - Drums (28 to 30 on the 1990 edition)
Red Cross (1981 edition)[16]
F-Word! (1990 edition)
  • Rik L Rik (credited as Rick L Rick) - Vocals
  • Kenny Sercu (aka Dim Wanker) - Guitar
  • Steve Effete (aka Steve Offut) - Bass
  • David "Dutch" Schultz - Drums
  • Dirk Dirksen - Emcee (1)
Production
Additional production (1981 edition)[16]
  • Roger Harris - Production, engineering (B6 to B11)
Additional production (1990 edition)
  • Chip Brown - Engineering (1 to 6)
  • Uvex Reed - Engineering (1 to 6)
  • Jay Lansford - Co-production (14 to 17), arrangement (16)
  • Michael Corby - Production (13)
  • The Crowd - Co-production (28 to 30)
  • David Hines - Engineering, mixing (28 to 30)
  • Robert Vosgien - Mastering
  • Christian Witt - Graphic design
  • Tony Cadena (credited as Tony Montana) - Liner notes
  • Robbie Fields – Liner notes

Notes

  1. ↑ The American-born Englishman, Robbie Fields, a former aspiring journalist, was the founder of Posh Boy Records.
  2. ↑ Done at Media Art Studios in Hermosa Beach, California.
  3. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 3
  4. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 4
  5. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 102
  6. ↑ Posh Boy #PBC 102
  7. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 1010
  8. ↑ Posh Boy #PBCD 88102-2
  9. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 101
  10. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 106
  11. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 108
  12. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 88101-1
  13. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 119
  14. 1 2 Get Back #GET 114

References

  1. 1 2 Boehm, Mike (July 23, 1989). "Kids of the Black Hole : The 1970s Were Waning When Orange County's Punk Rock Scene Roared Its Dark, Hostile Message" (page 4/6). latimes.com. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Boehm, Mike (July 19, 1991). "Punks to Revisit Beach Blvd : 3 Suburban Groups Will Play in Huntington to Mark Release of Compilation CD" (page 1/2). latimes.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Boehm, Mike (December 31, 1998). "Alt.Rock.OC: 20 Years of Suburban Struggle: Essential Albums, '78-98" (page 2/5). latimes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Vodicka, Gabe (August 6, 2009). "1979: Various Artists: Posh Boy - Beach Blvd.". tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Second ed., 2010. Feral House. ISBN 9781932595895. p. 80.
  6. ↑ Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Crowd". trouserpress.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ The Crowd, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ (July 5, 2000). "Obituaries: Rik L Rik; Pioneering Punk Rocker". latimes.com. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 Rabid, Jack. "TrouserPress.com :: F-Word". trouserpress.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  10. 1 2 MXV (February 6, 2006). "Selections from The Punk Vault (F-Word)". punkvinyl.com. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ Spitz, Marc; Mullen, Brendan (2001). We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609807743. pp. 181-182.
  12. ↑ "Beach Blvd LP". killfromtheheart.com. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  13. 1 2 3 "Negative Trend Three". negativetrend.net. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  14. 1 2 Simpletones, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  15. 1 2 3 Rik L Rik, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  16. 1 2 3 Beach Blvd, 1981 edition cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  17. ↑ Tonooka, Tim (Fall 1981). Red Cross, Red Cross (EP), review. Ripper (5).
  18. ↑ F-Word!, Like It or Not Live!. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26. 2015.
  19. ↑ Various Artists, Rodney on the ROQ. allmusic.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  20. ↑ Various Artists, Rodney on the ROQ. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24. 2015.
  21. ↑ Rodney on the ROQ compilations, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  22. ↑ The Crowd, A World Apart. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26. 2015.
  23. ↑ Rik L Rik, History of Rik L Rik. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24. 2015.
  24. ↑ Rik L Rik, The Lost Album. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26. 2015.

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