Happy 80th Birthday, Bob!
This version is very early Scenics, Oct or Nov '76, when Bob was 35!
From the first day the Scenics played with a drummer. (Think his name was Mike Brown.) At this point, on this song, lineup was:
Andy Meyers guitar and vox
Ken Badger bass and BGs
Dave Moore wah wah guitar
Mike Brown Drums.

Too Much Of Nothing

“Don’t know why no-one gives me a ride- I look fine, maybe just a little crazy. Check ‘em over twice to make sure i ain’t lazy, can’t find anyone any use to me. All Belts and Shoelaces taken- loose shoes flopping on the school gymnasium... Standing down looking down at cold linoleum, if anyone asks you know i’d help ‘em. If you asked for my shirt I’d give you my pants if you don’t say please I still say thanks. Just trying to find everybody someone- but they all get stuck on the initial impact”........The Scenics Live at the Beverly Tavern August 28/1977. Written by Andy Meyers, gtr n vox, with Ken Badger bass and Brad Cooper drums. thescenics.com/punkhaiku1

All Belts and Shoelaces Taken(PunkHaiku#3)

"Over And Even" by Joan Shelley

Just an improv, perhaps I'll come back and finish.

Lots of untended plants as of late...

Lately 0922.m4a

Not me, just a picture of this great venue...

Broken down, Luthier Co-Op, Mar 23, 2016

J.D. Emmanuel - Electronic Minimal Music 1979 - 83 - 2

Hot Property was the title track of The Dishes second EP released in 1978.
Also available on the 202 CD release "Kitschenette"

Hot Property

Latest LP/CD/Digital- "In The Summer"  at http://thescenics.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-summer : 

“It wasn't so much that The Scenics were ahead of their time in 1977, it's more that almost everybody else didn't even know what time it was. The Scenics were on top of it though, grabbing the freedom promised by punk's first blush...  New York had Talking Heads, and England was blessed with XTC, but here was their equal in Toronto  and they never got the necessary push and support. It's fabulous we finally have the evidence, but it's a drag we haven't been able to enjoy it the past 30 years.” Bob Mersereau, author of "the Top 100 Canadian Albums" 

"Brainy crackpot art-pop with an ear for off-kilter melody, a headful of magic and twitchy grooves to burn. It's a sin the Scenics have left such a faint mark on punk-rock history...  but now we can start to make things right: the reborn cult starts here.”  Ben Rayner, Toronto Star                                   

“The world's premier Velvet Underground interpreters are back with a new sizzling platter of original studio songs recorded in 1977/78... their poppy art rock & trippy jazzbo excursions will leave you sonically sated & wondering why most of today's bands are incapable of sounding half as good!  Jeffrey Morgan authorized biographer of Alice Cooper/The Stooges
                                 
“If a band makes an album and nobody hears it, does it still rock? It sure does. Three decades after the fact, recently reunited Toronto punks The Scenics have finally issued a sophomore disc — this long-lost batch of wiry Television guitars, black Velvets art-rock, Pere Ubu yelping and the freakiest Tommy James cover you’ve ever heard.     Daryl Sterdan the Winnipeg Sun

‘I don’t know much about this Canadian New Wave band that made these brilliant recordings in ’77 and ’78. Why they aren’t legends is hard to say.’   Roctober (Chicago)

...  sounds as fresh and daring today as it did back then, when few were listening. The Scenics may not hit the big time this second go-round, but this peek into their past shows that they belong there... it’s a surprisingly tight and well produced group of songs that fans of proto-punk should investigate. ..."Do The Wait" is one of the great unheard singles of the era (think Mink Deville covering "Sweet Jane") & "Wild Trout" isn't too far off from what Television was doing in their early years." David Mansdorf losingtoday.com

 "One of Canada's unsung heroes of first-gen punk...with their sublime understanding of pushing boundaries without sacrificing grooves, their low-fidelity creations are tight, post-garage accomplishments.  Celebrated on this first ever compilation of their studio works, (In The Summer) provides another case in point as to why The Scenics deserve merit for being as innovative as they were- (and now are, given their reunion)- impressive" Keith Carman, Urban Male Magazine

"Largely Unappreciated when they originally existed between 1976 and 1981, these underground icons merge Pere Ubu's dementia, Television's panoramic guitar work, Big Star's pop prowess and the Ramones' urgency"  Montreal Mirror

Too Much Of Nothing

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