GENERATION X "PERFECT HITS VOL.2" 1977 4 TRX.BAND DEMOS VG+ LIM.ED, RARE OOP 7"

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LAST YEAR I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED. I WILL BE LISTING A LOT OF HIS 45's OVER THE COMING FEW WEEKS.

ARTIST: GENERATION X

TITLE: DEMO TAPES

SIDE “A” 1“ROCK ON” 2. “NO NO NO”

SIDE “B” 1. “GIMME SOME TRUTH” 2. “FROM THE HEART”

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Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Maida Vale Studios

Credits

• Engineer [Uncredited] – Mike Robinson
• Producer [Uncredited] – Jeff Griffin

Notes

TIMES LISTED

LABLE: PERFECT HITS RECORDS UK

CAT.#: GX-2

YEAR: 1977

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG+ NO MARKS, BLEMS, SCRATCHES, LINES, FINGERPRINTS, ETC.BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION . NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THERE'S LIGHT BACKGROUND SURFACE NOISE ON THE LEAD IN TRACKS, A FEW POPS/CLICKS. I AM BASING THE VG+ ON THE CONDITION OF THE RECORD, THE VINYL LOOKS GREAT, SHINEY, NO SCRATCHES ETC.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE SLEEVE IS GOOD CONDITION. NO SEAM SPLITS,TEARS OR WRITING. COMES IN A GENERIC WHITE PAPER SLEEVE.

OTHER INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. DAVE HAS A FEW GENERATION X 7” RECORDS I AM LISTING SO CHECK THEM OUT IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. SOLD BY THE BAND AND MANAGEMENT (SEE ABOVE). THIS IS A “LO-FI” RECORDING JUST BASED ON THE NATURE OF THE TAPES THE MATERIAL WAS DRAWN FROM. BUT SOUNDS GREAT FOR WHAT IT IS!

ARTIST & RELEASE INFO:

Generation X (later known as Gen X) were an English punk rock/post punk band from London in the late 1970s, primarily remembered today for being the musical starting point of the career of its frontman/vocalist, Billy Idol.

Formation - 1976[edit]

During the punk rock pop music movement in London in late 1976,the guitarist William Broad, a 21 year old university drop-out from Bromley and associate of the Bromley Contingent; the drummer John Towe, a West End music shop assistant, and - at Broad's suggestion, having already met via an ad previously put in the Melody Maker by Broad seeking other musicians[7] - Tony James, a 23 year old university graduate bass player from Twickenham and former member of the London S.S., all replied to an advert placed in the Melody Maker by John Krivine, the owner of a fashion clothing shop called Acme Attractions in the King's Road in Chelsea, seeking musicians to form a new West London band around the vocalist/frontman John O'Hara aka "Gene October". After a few weeks of rehearsals the band became known as Chelsea, and began by playing a few support gigs in West London and Manchester, primarily playing cover versions of rock and roll songs from the 1960's. However, by November Gene October felt that Broad and James were becoming too dominant creatively, and that his personal chemistry with them wasn't good, a feeling which they reciprocated, and Broad, James and Towe together abandoned Chelsea and formed a new band they named Generation X after a book with that title that James found that belonged to Broad's mother when visiting his family home. The new band was initially managed by Andrew Czezowski, Acme Attractions' accountant. 

With his photogenic looks and inherent egotism Broad, styling himself with a punk pseudonym name of "Billy Idol", abandoned the guitar to be the frontman and lead singer of the new unit when the 17 year old lead guitarist Bob "Derwood" Andrews was recruited from the Fulham rocker band Paradox, and 'Generation X' took the stage for the first time in public at the Central School of Art and Design on 10 December 1976. The new band played its second gig 4 days later at the newly opened The Roxy, which their manager Czezowski had also taken over the management of, being the first to play at the venue. Soon after formation Generation X abandoned playing cover versions in its live performances around London of other acts' songs and began writing its own material, with Idol writing music around James' lyrical song constructions. 

1977-1978[edit]

In early 1977 the management for the band was passed from Czezowoski, who preferred club management to live acts, to a dual management of Stewart Joseph, a fanzine promoter from Rough Trade Records, with the Sounds journalist Jonh Ingham, who professionalized the act's business aspect, and began approaching record companies to secure a recording deal for it.

In mid-March 1977, amidst a heavy performance schedule in London and increasingly beyond the confines of the capital city into England's provinces, a gig had to be abandoned at the University of Leicester mid-performance due to Derwood Andrews requiring hospitalization from being struck on the head by a beer bottle thrown from the crowd. In mid-April 1977, having just played their first international date in Paris in a joint billing alongside the upcoming bands The Jam and The Police, and recorded Generation X's first live radio session at the British Broadcasting Corporation's Maida Vale Studios,John Towe was asked to leave the band by James and Idol as they felt that his style of playing was too overt for what they wanted from a drummer, and James, the band's strategist, had come to the view that Towe's personality didn't fit with the image that he was formulating the act into. Towe moved on to join a new outfit called Alternative TV.

He was replaced on drums by the 18 year old Mark Laff from North Finchley, recruited from Subway Sect after an extensive audition process for the vacancy organized by Idol and James, before the band signed to Chrysalis Records and released its first single, "Your Generation", in September 1977. "Your Generation" was produced by Phil Wainman, who wasn't impressed with the musical quality of the act, particularly with Laff's technical ability or with Idol's capacity as a singer, and in response to Idol's asking for his opinion during production as to whether he thought Generation X were "going to make it", replied in the negative. On release the single went to #36 in the U.K. Singles Chart. The band played the song on Marc Bolan's afternoon variety show, Marc, that same month using Granada Television's Manchester studio instruments for the performance, afterwards making off with the drum-kit and being banned by Granada for 10 years as a result.

Along with writing and performing the band's musical output, James and Idol around this period sought to extend the band's brand identity beyond purely the musical sphere by designing and manufacturing a series of op-art and pop-art T-shirts for use in Generation X's photo-shoots and live performances,and James was attentive to its public image conveyed in the act's dress and styling. The band's co-manager Jonh Ingham introduced them to the graphic artist Barney Bubbles, who with them created the cover for the Your Generation single release, drawing inspiration from the 1920s abstract geometric work of Russian designer El Lissitsky, which introduced the Russian Constructivist school into English pop music design, which would be utilized by other bands into the 21st Century. Bubbles was also commissioned by the band to design its newspaper adverts and posters.

In September 1977 Generation X was one of the first punk units to appear on the B.B.C.'s mainstream pop music programme Top of the Pops,and began to acquire some mass media recognition as one of the punk-rock acts that had an accessibility of sound and image with the potential to achieve commercial pop music success. Contrarily the same analysis led to recurring adverse criticism of the band in the media of the alternative music scene from which it had emerged, with a number of reviewers dismissing the act as artistically and intellectually vapid, and suggesting that it was using the guise of being a part of the punk movement cynically as a stepping-stone in pursuance of more prosaic pop music fame and fortune. As punk-rock developed an increasingly radical overtone, driven partly by the politicized content of the songs of The Clash, Generation X also faced accusations of being middle-class interlopers upon what was increasingly espoused as a working-class sub-culture movement, evidence for this being a story in circulation within the scene originating from the music journalist Tony Parsons of the New Musical Express that when Idol and James had turned up in a pub setting for an interview with it, on being asked what they wanted to drink, had asked for two orange juices.
Generation X stood out in the burgeoning milieu of punk-music bands for its combination of the raw raucous energy of punk-rock with a more commercially melodic sound and visual image in the tradition of earlier British pop music styles of the 1960s, drawing influences from bands such as The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces, and The Beatles] It also produced songs that lyrically focused on the concerns of being an adolescent in West London in the late 1970s and, apart from playing a few gigs in support of Rock Against Racism, eschewed the societal commentary, cultural nihilism and radical politics of the punk movement, for which it drew some criticism from its peers, including John Lydon, the frontman-lyricist of the preeminent Sex Pistols.

Towards the end of 1977 Jonh Ingham resigned from Generation X's management, leaving Stewart Joseph in sole charge.

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