Jimi Lalumia - Vocals
Pete Scarlata - Bass
Tommy Raccanelli - Guitar
Ricky Staal - Drums
LIMITED EDITION GREEN VINYL LP
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The long-lost album from Jimi LaLumia & The Psychotic Frogs.
In November, 1975, Punk Magazine was born. The first issue contained a salty editorial by one of its founders, John Holstrom, titled, “Death to Disco Shit! Long Live the Rock!” At that time Jimi LaLumia was managing local rock bands in the New York area, and following punk pioneers, Wayne County (Jane), Johnny Thunders, and Cherry Vanilla. After reading this editorial, Jimi had the idea to create buttons with the slogan, “Death to Disco.” These buttons were very popular with many of the bands in the New York music scene, so Jimi took it a step further, and created bumper stickers with the same slogan.
In September, 1976, a satirical novelty song called “Disco Duck” was released. This inspired Jimi to take his campaign to the next level. He wrote a parody of the parody, changing “Disco Duck” to “Disco Sucks.” He convinced the members of Sonic Fury, one of the bands he was managing to record what he considered to be a one-off novelty. Jimi, being an avid Wayne County fan, took a fictitious band name from County’s song, “Max’s Kansas City 1976.” The name? The Psychotic Frogs. Jimi credited his novelty record, issued by James Nipo Antonucci’s Death Records, to Jimi LaLumia & The Psychotic Frogs.
Even though the song was laced with profanity, it caught on and began selling faster than they ever would have imagined. Jem Records picked it up for international distribution, and it was selling just as well in Europe. The original “Death To Disco” single went through numerous pressings. Jem demanded a follow up. Jimi was not expecting this to go beyond the one-off release, but the demand was there. He convinced Sonic Fury to record an EP with him, which they titled, “Typically Tasteless EP.” Jimi was always pushing the envelope and going for maximum shock value. This EP did that and more.
Soon, Peter Crowley, the booking manager for Max’s Kansas City, in New York City, was asking Jimi for live performances by the band. So, Sonic Fury became The Psychotic Frogs full time. Jimi and bass player, Pete Scarlata, began writing more songs for the band to perform. With all this new material, they approached Barry Knoedl and Bill Kern, who had recently started their own record label, Beat Bad Records, to record and produce an album in their studio. The plans to release the album were put on hold when the band began to fracture. At the same time distribution avenues for indy labels began to tighten. Recently a new opportunity has made the release of this album possible. The front cover is the same originally intended for the album, designed by the late Bill Kern. All of the songs have been digitally remixed by Barry Knoedl.
This album was recorded over dozens of sessions between September, 1979, and May, 1980.
Eleanor Rigby will be exclusively available on the vinyl version of this album, not available for streaming.
This is a limited edition release of only 100 copies pressed on GREEN VINYL
