Boy In The Blinds

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The Pissed Officers were the punk band that Justin Rice and Christian Rudder had in college, before they had Bishop Allen.  I knew them a little bit because I worked tech for a couple years at the campus radio station where they hosted a rock show, and because I was in CS classes with Christian, and also because Blake — the third member of the band — was an engineer and a pretty cool guy.

The first time I saw them play was at some awful “Battle of the Bands” competition following a collegiate football game.  This was the fall of 1996 (or maybe 1997?), so it was basically the age of Blues Traveller.  I sat through 4 or 5 terrible college jam bands, and then these guys started handing out lyric sheets to the crowd.  ”We play really fucking fast,” they said.  They also had a cardboard clock that they used to identify which song in the set they were actually playing, as they asserted it would be difficult to tell otherwise.  The banged out 13 songs (including “Ewok Massacre”, feat. the immortal opening line: “Stormtroopers: shoot to kill!”) in roughly eight minutes.  It was probably the greatest musical experience of my life.

For $2, they were selling a 78 with one side of their songs and one side by another local outfit called Gerty Farish.  It came with this patch.  I bought it immediately.

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