Live At Cantone's 1977

All right! It's time to put on yer O. Rex T-shirt and stock up on non-diet sodas, 'cause Gulcher Records is bringin' y'all the legendary Afrika Korps LIVE!! in 1977 at Cantone's in Boss-Town, Massachusetts. Kenne Highland, Solomon Gruberger, Jay Gruberger, and Kenny Kaiser rip through a set of twenty tunes in front of an audience celebrating PFC Highland's marriage to Boston Groupie News editor Miss Lyn. From the Afrika Korps' Music to Kill By LP, the boys do 'N.Y. Punk,' 'You're A Tease Baby,' 'I Want You Everyday,' 'Crazy Jill,' 'Ellen No,' 'Jailbait Janet,' 'Refrigerator Rappin',' 'Juvenile Delinquent,' 'Make Her Know,' and 'Fox Lane.' They also pull off killer version of Kenne's 'Califawnia Gurls' and Solomon's 'My Head's In '73,' songs from the ultra-rare maxi-single by O. Rex (pre-A. Korps group with the Grubergers and Kenne). We also get to hear band versions of 'Only Real People' and 'Winner By Elimination,' which would be recorded the following year by the Korps duo (no Afrika) of Kenne and Kenny for the album Hello World! There's a never-recorded Solomon tune, 'Slow And Easy,' another of his horndog anthems. Slickee Boys vocalist Martha Hull, who appeared on Music to Kill By, shows up to sing the Yardbirds' 'Heart Full Of Soul.' And ex-Gizmo Rich Coffee does the lead vocal on a version of Kenne's Gizmos song 'Amerika First.' As a tribute to Kenne's new Boston hometown, they also perform songs by local faves Willie Loco Alexander ('Hit Her Wid De Axe,' 'At The Rat') and Thundertrain ('Hot For Teacher'). Yep, this is the real thing: punk without the pose, raw rockin' by dudes who were breathin' deep back when the air still vibrated with R&R. Rock on! (Eddie Flowers, SLIPPY TOWN)