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. Over that period of time, Miles Syken left the band before their main recording period, and Martin Blazy joined as the drummer in 1986. The Corvairs released two EP’s – Temple Fire (1983), which included “Hands of Time”; and Sad Hotel (1985) – and two LP’s – Rio Blanco (1987) and Hitchhiker (1989 – France only). 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.
Here follows a reprint of the Trouser Press Record Guide (4th Edition) listing for the SourMash family of bands. Though slightly garbled, it presents a fairly accurate overview of our thing in the 1980’s.
Temple Fire EP (SourMash) 1984
Rio Blanco (Cryptovision) 1988
Hitchhiker (Fr. New Rose) 1989
Denver Sessions ’79 (MP3.com) 2001
Unsafe at Any Speed (SourMash USA) 2006 (not yet released)
(March 2015)
