BEAVER
“s/t” LP
Dr. Strange Records
ReleaseD: September 20, 2013
Tom Lyle (aka Tom Cleaver in Beaver)
eventually ended up in Government Issue. Beaver, originally recorded these tracks
for the now “Killed By Death”, DC HardCore 7” that had an original press of
300.
I love this passage from punkvinyl.com:
Beaver started
out as a solo project of Tom Lyle’s. Then it became a real band, albeit short
lived. Here’s a brief story Tom shared with me.
I
was in a DC progressive/new waver band, but became VERY bored with the whole
scene. After seeing the Dead Kennedys in April 81 at the 9:30, and then the
Government Issue/Youth Brigade/Minor Threat show in June 81 at the 9:30 I
started making home demo tapes of me playing all the instruments in the most
hardcore style I could come up with. I wanted to get a band together to play
out live and used they rhythm section from Square One, the awful band I was in
at the time. Then we got asked to record a record for Choice Cuts.
That’s how it was. Hear a band, see a band,
change your life… just like that.
Dr. Strange has reissued this on LP, (400 on black
vinyl, 100 on white vinyl) and added some demo tracks, also recorded in 1981.
This is rudimentary hardcore, typical for the
early 1980s. Tom Lyle eventually ended being an inspiration for me on guitar. I
love his guitar style on all of the Government Issue material. I own a Marshall because of him. This is the
roots, the developmental stage. Having been involved in hardcore during this
time period, I have a certain affinity for all of this material.
Considering the early stage of hardcore, how
fast this genre evolved, the lack of technology available for recording,
Beaver, and all of their contemporaries were a part of something huge.
This is mandatory if you love hardcore.
Cheers,
Frank FOE
My buddy here in Chicago, MXV, runs the punkvinyl blog. He released the GI demos single years ago.
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