Stephen Graziano

STEPHEN GRAZIANO

Stephen Graziano, the manager and booking agent for Certain General, put together a label called SourMash Records in order to issue music by Phil Gammage and his associated bands in the US. As described by Graziano: “Stressing cooperation, sharing, and interdependence, both Certain General and Band of Outsiders, in partnership, financed, and organized, totally in-house, the first SourMash Records release, Far Away In America.” Band of Outsiders was a band that was reorganized from a late 1970’s power pop band called The Limit. Another band released on SourMash Records was Phil Gammage’s earlier band the Corvairs, which was in New York by this point.

Phil Gammage never made a lot of noise over here, but he has had a productive career through France and elsewhere in Europe. As compiled by Stephen Graziano, this discography that is provided in the SourMash Records tribute on the same website is given below, as an indication of the torrent of music from Phil Gammage over the years. The list is not exhaustive; I mentioned several albums earlier that are not on this list.

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.

Steve G.

CERTAIN GENERAL

Holiday of Love EP (Labor) 1982

November’s Heat (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1984

Reissued w/ bonus tracks (Fr. New Rose) 1990; (Alive) 1999; (Fr. Fantastica) 2002