Monday, March 23, 2009

Peter Laughner
"Take The Guitar Player For A Ride"
(*Link Fixed*)



Legendary guitar player Peter Laughner played in such bands as Rocket From The Tombs, Friction, Pere Ubu, Mr. Charlie, Cinderella Backstreet, Peter & The Wolves and The Blue Drivers, he also helped to inspire the sounds and songs of the Dead Boys. After Rocket From The Tombs called it quits, he and David Thomas formed the ground breaking Pere Ubu and created some of Cleveland's most primitive sounds that the 70's ever heard, some of which can be sampled here in their rawest form. Songs like "Amphetamine" and the ever fucking classic "Life Stinks" show Laughner recording these demos in some crazed altered state. Also included here is a demo recording of "Ain't It Fun" which was made famous by the Dead Boys, as well as "Baby's On Fire". This even has a home tape recorded in his bedroom the night before his death. All 15 tracks are absolutely essential despite not being recorded in the best of studios, not that it really fucking matters cause it's the energy and passion that counts, and that's all this guy was about. Long live the BB King of erratic punk rock blues guitar.


Tracklist:

1) Baudelaire
2) Rock It Down
3) Sylvia Plath
4) In The Bar
5) Cinderella Backstreet
6) Only Love Can Break Your Heart
7) Lullaby
8) Amphetamine
9) Life Stinks
10) Don't Take Your Love Away
11) Calvary Cross
12) Ain't It Fun
13) Dear Richard
14) Baby's On Fire
15) Me & The Devil Blues


**REMOVED DUE TO REQUEST**

13 comments:

Tom Gd said...

Amazing been lookin' for this for ages !
Cheers
Tom GD

Jackie said...

This link seems to be to your home page. When you click it just open you main page. If you could fix that would be rad thanks

JohnThePunk said...

Jackie is right. The link just goes to the blog.

Punk Not Profit said...

Sorry about that Jackie, link is fixed. Mediafire link on its way as well.

Anonymous said...

excellente

Roc said...

thank you. i could only find a few songs by him. so underrated. hes legendary.

Jack said...

Thanks for the fix! This album and you rock!

Honquijote said...

Thanks for the post ! :-)

chris g said...

i downloaded this out of pure curiosity and the rewards have been quite large

a bit like Nikki Sudden and Johnny Thunders, great stuff

AK said...

perfect timing. i was just digging around for this and found your blog. thanks!

Anonymous said...

Is there any way you can repost or send me this link?

RDHe said...

Damn! Link was removed! I bought this album three times already - one was smashed in a car accident, one cd was stolen, and I loaned out the LP to a friend and never got it back. I'd kill for another copy, but don't have another 50 bucks to plunk down.

Fuck.

Pedro said...

removed due to request ??? fuck that!