Piano Moscow "Don't Throw Out Your Books" 7" OOP NM Joe Band

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Piano Moscow "Don't Throw Out Your Books" 7" Deco Entertainment (US)

Record is NM, Jacket is VG+.

Tough to Find!!  Out of Print!!

Track Listing:

A1. Don't Throw Out Your Books

A2. Erotica

B/W

B1. Animal Locomotion

A brief history of the band

Piano Moscow formed mid-1983 following the breakup of Joe Band, a group in which Dernbach, Healy, and Solano had been playing with bassist Habib Kheradyar. After an informal jam session on June 18 with Bennett on the bass, the four decided to form a new group and started rehearsing the following week. They recruited vocalist Tina Kohfield and, under the name Zulu Roy (or Zulu Roi, depending on who made the flyer), did their first performance at El Camino College that September. Kohfield left the band after that show, and following her departure they would remain a quartet, with Dave Folkart joining the band on drums in fall of 1985.

Over the next two-and-a-half years they appeared regularly at a variety of L.A. clubs and on Southern California college campuses, changing their name to Piano Moscow in early 1984. Following a couple of early gigs at the Fiesta House, the group became regulars at the Anti-Club, where they did some fifteen shows in as many months, including a few Theoretical Parties and other festival-like events organized by the Anti-Club triumvirate of Jack Marquette, Jim van Tyne, and Russell Jessum. They shared the bill with a variety of acts, including Fat & Fucked Up, The Fibonaccis, Leaving Trains, Motor Totemist Guild, Party Boys, Psi Com, SWA, Thelonious Monster, Tripod Jimmie, and 54-40, among others. (For a complete chronology of their shows see the Performances page.)

Press announcements for their shows described the group's sound as "anti-melodic" yet "soigné," while their songs were noted for their "rainy-day irony and droll imagery," and their "wry, jabbing lyrics and artlorn guitars." They received steady airplay on KXLU, though the band never had a single, commercially released recording at the time. In early 1986 they were approached by BMI who wished to sign them for songwriting rights, but they were unable to generate any label interest and in mid-1986 disbanded. Over the following few years the group would still occasionally play together (including a recording session as late as 1993 under the name "Naked Girl"), though they never performed in public again.

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