Endtables - Endtables

•    The Endtables were the crazed brainchild of guitarist Alex Durig and singer Steve Rigot. Rigot crafted his own glamorous reality from what was available in the blasted cultural landscape of 1970’s Kentucky.
•    The band first took the stage in late 1978 and were finished by the summer of 1980. In the fall of 1979, as peers of Circle X and Babylon Dance Band, they recorded six tracks at a Louisville studio, four of which came out on a 7” EP on their own Tuesday Records. The two remaining tracks (‘White Glove Test’ and ‘Trick Or Treat’) were issued as a single on Self Destruct Records in 1991. Both records are among the most sought-after of any American punk releases, treasures more talked about than seen, passed like secret gospels on disintegrating cassette tapes.
•    Now the secret is revealed and a star restored. This album collects for the first time The Endtables’ six studio recordings, and the CD edition also contains six unreleased live tracks, and never-before-seen video footage of the band in performance. This new release is mastered from the original tapes, long believed lost, but recently discovered in a basement in Louisville’s South End. The package also includes many previously unpublished photos, extensive liner notes by Wink O’Bannon, David Grubbs, Tara Key and Paul Belker, and Steve Rigot’s unbelievable lyrics.
•    This is all just in time for the original EP’s thirty-year anniversary, but this is no period piece. It’s pure American weirdness, as jaw-dropping today as the day it was recorded. Nothing could be more modern than Steve Rigot’s remote, sly singing style set against Alex Durig’s frenzied guitar outbursts, while drummer Steve Jan Humphrey and bassist Albert Durig (aged fifteen at the time) bring the monster jams.

Tracklisting:
Process Of Elimination * The Defectors * They’re Guilty * Circumcision * White Glove Test * Trick Or Treat * Process Of Elimination (Unedited) * Break The Bank Break The Figurine (Live) * When Beauty Meets Ugly (Live) * Europe (Live) * No Bed (Live) * Trick Or Treat (Live) * Twelve (Live)

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