03.31.06
Blight Retrospective
Life’s funny sometimes. Just in the last couple weeks I was referring and reminiscing about an old midwestern noise band called Blight (with Tesco Vee among others), and waddaya know but last Tuesday Touch and Go released a retrospective CD featuring their sole EP, a few 4-track demos, and a hefty selection of live recordings. I distinctly recall a cassette as well — with a yellow cover — but I dunno what the heck that was comprised of. Maybe it was their booking demo, or perhaps a cassette version of the EP.
I only saw them once back in the ’80s, and except for my precious Flipper singles they were pretty much my introduction to the more avant garde (if I may use such a hoity-toity word in this context) aspects of the punk underground of the day. (Remember…I was in Indiana at the time.) In them days, we called such stuff “noise music”, though soon came to mean something much more, well, noisy.
But I’m also a little confused because according to the afore-referenced band page at Touch & Go’s web site, Blight existed only for about 4 months during 1982. But I saw them at Cosmo’s (”Punk Rock”) Pizza, and that was definitely after I graduated high school in the fall of ‘84 — indeed, Cosmo’s certainly didn’t even exist in 1982. So did I see a reunion thing? Search me, bub.
Anyways, I’m curious to hear the new CD and see how well it holds up after (fuck!) almost 25 years.
