Yeah, I had heard some singles on the radio when they came out:
Bingo Master’s... Totally Wired and ...’Elastic Man’, and loved them,
but the band didn’t really hit me until later in 1980 when the distributor
I was working for picked up Rough Trade. Both Grotesque... and Slates
came thru the door and were plopped down in front of me to sell and,
holy crap, I was immediately hooked!
The next year, they came to our city and the engineer at our radio station
named Tim Powell recorded them and two tracks were later released
on A Part of America, Therein (N.W.R.A. & Hip Priest).
Since that first gig, I’d seen them at least a dozen times.
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