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Randy Alvey and The Green Fuz

Personnel:
RANDY ALVEY vcls A
LES DALE ld gtr A
R.E. HOUCHENS bs A
JIMMY MERCER gtr A
MIKE PEARCE drms A


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1 Green Fuz/There Is A Land (Big Tex 445) 196?


This punk band hailed from Bridgeport in North Texas, just Northwest of Fort Worth and were for a while a popular local attraction in the area. Randy was just 15 when this single was made. Mastered on a portable reel to reel cassette and recorded in a rock constructed cafe after hours, which probably explains the echoey sound, it's hardly surprising the production sounds so crude. Only 500 copies were pressed at the time, but today, Green Fuz has become something of a cult classic. The flip was a ballad credited to R.E. Houchens. Minus Les Dale the band recorded again as Natchez.

More recently, Green Fuzz has been covered by The Cramps, the Miracle Workers, Germany's Beatitudes, the Seclusions and by Dino Sorbello's Laughing Sky on their Free Inside CD retitled as Here We Come.

Compilation appearances have so far included: Green Fuz on Pebbles, Vol. 2 (LP), Pebbles Vol. 2 (CD), The Essential Pebbles Collection, Vol. 1 (Dble CD), Pebbles Box (5-LP), Best of Pebbles, Vol. 1 (LP & CD), Pebbles, Vol. 3 (ESD) (CD); Great Pebbles (CD), Trash Box (5-CD), Acid Dreams Epitaph (CD) and Acid Dreams - The Complete 3 LP Set (3-LP).

(Vernon Joynson/Max Waller/Greetings Reinald)

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I give this song the illusive 5 out of 5 electric sugar cubes.





Randy Alvey And The Green Fuz - Green Fuz
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