MEET THE BEEF PEOPLE!
MP3s of 7" E.P. of my old punk band, The Beef People, from when I was 20 (1984). I played guitar (I also sang on the last song on side A, "Kicked out".)
All songs Beef People except "fire" by Jimi Hendrix.
I love the beef people. I joined because I was a fan. I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia at the time.
The Beef people were kids at a boarding school in Virginia. Their guitar player (Rob Buckingham) got kicked out for having a girl in his room. (I felt a connection as I'd been kicked out of a different all-boys school four years earlier). I took his place and drove 40 miles each way to Dyke, (!) Virginia for practise. Ain't seen any of them except singer Brian childers since they graduated. (Except Jack, who came and saw Bomb in Tuscaloosa, Al in 1990).
Brian was in my band, Bomb, for one tour. Aint seen him now in ten years.
Beef people was Brian on vocals, me on guitar,Willie McLean on bass and Jack Massey on drums.
God bless punk. (This record even has the obligatory straight edge song, "Come Back".)
I think this record--12 minutes (total) of punk fury sounds fresh, even now. I haven't listened to this in 15 years. Still sounds good. Kinda like Minor Threat meets Yes.
The thing at the end was me wanking in the studio. We had 8 hours booked, only took 4 hours to record and mix so I used up ten minutes of what was left making the guitar/keyboard jam.
Photo of Michael W. Dean and Brian Childers live with the Beef People at Trax in Charlottesville, Virginia. April 2, 1985. Photo by Michael Buck.
DOWNLOAD THE RECORD:
8-meg MP3 of side A
8-meg
MP3 of side B
(MP3s removed because a very cool UK record label, Damaged Records , are releasing VINYL of the Beef People EP, combined with the unreleased tracks, which are great.)
Download
two songs and read about the upcoming vinyl release of the "lost" Beef
People record
