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.
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
(March 2015)