In June 1979, the Corvairs recorded a demo consisting of five original songs, including a Phil Gammage song, “Hands of Time”. A CD released in 2000 includes this music; called Denver Sessions ’79, it is still available from PreFab International Recordings. Also that summer, the Corvairs played two shows at the Blue Note club, one of them opening for the Cleveland band Pere Ubu.
After several dates on the West Coast, with two New Yorkers in the line-up the Corvairs moved East, where they stayed together for nearly a decade. A planned 22-song retrospective called Unsafe at Any Speed – also the title of Ralph Nader’s famed book Unsafe at Any Speed on the ill-fated Chevrolet car – was to have come out in 2006 on PreFab International Recordings but has not yet been released.
In 1995, Phil Gammage founded PreFab International Recordings as a way to present his music on the Internet; their site can be found at: www.scarletdukes.com/prefab/index.shtml . Many records by Phil Gammage, the Corvairs, Certain General, the Scarlet Dukes, Voodoo Martini, and others can be found there.
(March 2015)