William Martyr 17-- The Celebration Of Forever CD (FCH013)

William Martyr 17-- The Celebration Of Forever discography CD (Harlan Records #13)

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11 songs.
1-4 recorded November 1994 by Chris Atwood at Jonathan Thompson's house in Cammack Village, AR. 5-7 recorded January 1994 at Maness Studio in Little Rock, AR. 8-9 recorded spring 1994 at Clay Simmons' house. 10 recorded from Stewart Isbell's Little Rock Update VHS comp at 800 State Street, March 1995. 11 recorded fall 1995 at Second Story Studio.
1043 copies pressed, May 1999.

Credits:

Dustin Clark-- guitar (tracks 1-4, 10-11), voice (track 10)
Chris Horne-- drums (tracks 1-9)
Jonathan Lovett-- guitar
Clay Simmons-- bass (tracks 1-9, 11), drums (track 10)
Matthew Werth-- voice, bass (track 10), drums (track 11)

Track Listing:

William Martyr 17 songs--
1. Summer
2. Four Years Long
3. Kenya
4. Professional Beggar
5. Swallow This Pride
6. Jejune
7. Blame It Red
8. Nothing
9. Never Was Too Much Of A Man

Inherit The Sun songs--
10. Nameless But Not Faceless
11. Spilling Light

Notes:

* "Swallow This Pride" is from the William Martyr 17/ Crown Of Glory split 7" (File 13/Almut Records, 1994)
* "Four Years Long" is from the William Martyr 17/ Plunger split 7" (Spearfinger/ File 13 Records, 1995)
* "Professional Beggar" and "Kenya" are from "The Celebration Of Love" 7" (File 13/ Bloodlink Records, 1995)
* "Nameless But Not Faceless" is from The Little Rock Update comp VHS (Stewart Isbell, 1995)

* William Martyr 17 ended abruptly with the tragic death of drummer Chris Horne on December 3, 1994 after a late night drive back from a WM17 show in Fayetteville, AR. He was only 16.

* Inherit The Sun was a short-lived postscript to WM17, with surviving members jogging their instrument duties. They played two shows in March 1995. Afterwards, Clay and Matthew played together briefly in Basil, and Clay and Dustin played together in Shake Ray Turbine for several years. 

* Sadly, Jonathan Lovett passed away in early 2007 after a battle with cancer.

* Members also in Favourite Sons, Aspera, The Divine Hook-Up, No City No State, Revolver Red, Ricochet Rocket, Sand City, Soophie Nun Squad, The Insides, Shake Ray Turbine, Heads Are Heavy, Hundred Years War, Unfixers, Basil, Generation Of Vipers, and Crown Of Glory.

Chris Horne with William Martyr 17 @ The Belvedere. Little Rock AR, November 1994. Photo by Ben Mistak.

William Martyr 17 @ The Belvedere. Little Rock AR, November 1994. Photo by Ben Mistak.

Shake Ray Turbine-- The Sauce Of Solution CD (FCH010)

Shake Ray Turbine-- The Sauce Of Solution CD (Harlan Records #10/ File Thirteen #23)

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13 songs.
Recorded December 1996 by Barry Poynter in Little Rock, AR.
1000 copies pressed, November 1997.
(Harlan Records was a joint venture between Noah Young and I for this release, and this album was a split release with File 13 Records, which had recently returned to Matt Werth's hands shortly after moving to Philadelphia.)

Credits:

Dustin Clark-- bass
Ben Dickey-- guitar, voice
Clay Simmons-- guitar, voice
Chris Wilson-- drums
John Pugh & Jim Hunnicutt-- backing voices
Catherine McRae-- violin

Track Listing:

1. The Sauce Of Solution
2. The First Equation
3. Which Way To Georgia
4. Murder In An Aquarium
5. Sketch Of An Optical Factory
6. White Wine
7. The Gig Is Up
8. Rosetta
9. Surprise Surprise
10. To Kill Birds With Stones
11. This Machine Will Kill You
12. Our Last Days On Mars
13. Silver Suited

Notes:

* As I remember, this album was supposed to be called Our Last Days On Mars, but somewhere some wires got crossed while the cover was being designed, and now we're all stuck with the damn Sauce Of Solution.

* Members also in Blood Feathers, Unfixers, Amen Booze Rooster, Ted Leo & Pharmacists, Aspera, The Lapse, Sean Na Na, Soophie Nun Squad, Sand City, The Insides, Revolver Red, William Martyr 17, Heads Are Heavy, and Hundred Years War.

Shake Ray Turbine @ The Outpost. Little Rock AR, December 1995. Photo by Eli Milholland.

Shake Ray Turbine @ 800 State St., Little Rock AR, March 1996. Photo by Eli Milholland.

SOOPHIE NUN SQUAD-- "vs. the United States of America" 7" (FCH006)

Soophie Nun Squad-- "Vs. the United States of America" 7" (Food Chain Records #6)

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6 songs.
Recorded January 13-14, 1995 by Chris Atwood, live to an 8-track digital minidisc recorder, at Jonathan Thompson's house in Cammack Village, AR.
500 copies pressed on red vinyl. Released March 10, 1995.
(Food Chain Records, for this release, was a joint effort among Eli, Dustin, and I.)

Credits:

Dustin Clark-- guitar
Mark Lierly-- drums
Mike Lierly-- voice
Eli Milholland-- bass
Nate Powell-- voice
Mikael Wood-- backing voice, dancing

Track Listing:

1. Soophie Nun Squad
2. You Purple-Eyed Beeyotch, You Broke My Heart
3. Push It
4. Swamp Thing
5. Another Day
6. Ignition!

Notes:

* This 7" used the same means of recording as the final William Martyr 17 songs (for which Dustin was also guitarist), but damn, those WM17 songs sound a lot better. These were recorded directly to a minidisc with no option to mix, overdub, or isolate anything. After each take, we'd unhook the minidisc recorder, take it to Jonathan's living room, hook it up to the stereo, and listen to the take. Since we had just one full day to record, would it have been a better idea to record a handful of songs over and over to get the best possible recording (like WM17's four songs)? Maybe, but we're Soophie Nun Squad, so we left there with 17 songs total, many of them captured in one take. What do you want?

* The muffled vocal quality is partially because 3 or 4 people are trying to share two microphones while jumping and dancing around just feet from the live drums, and partially because Mike and I were both horribly sick during this recording. (I was actually supposed to sing throughout "Ignition!", but I lost my voice entirely during the previous take. It's better on this record with just Mike, though.)

* "You Purple-Eyed Beeyotch, You Broke My Heart" (originally with an even shittier, but less questionable title) was written for Little Rock's own Ashlie Atkinson, now best known for her roles in Compliance, Rescue Me, and Fat Pig, as the viral hit Chunky Pam, and in a shitload of TV roles. Hell yeah Ashlie!

* The impenetrable vocal rant in the middle of "Ignition!" ("...One out of every four mammals is a bat-- and it kills crickets!") is a parody(?) of a rare version of Downcast's "They Are Not" released on a compilation 7". This is relevant only because our first review was in HeartattaCk zine, and the only thing that turned Kent McClard over to the Soophie side was that damn Downcast bit. Now look at us, rolling in rubies and emeralds.

* The extra songs on the download are "Something Pretty For Someone", which we recorded for the We've Lost Beauty comp LP (File 13 Records, 1996) in memory of our friend Chris Horne (drummer extraordinaire for William Martyr 17, Generation Of Vipers, and Crown Of Glory) who passed away December 3rd, 1994 at the age of sixteen; "Counterculture" and "Feedback" are both songs that I thought should've been on this 7" instead of some others. I think this recording of "Feedback", despite the muffled vocals, is the best version we ever did.

* Members also in Humanbeast, V Manuscript, Sand City, Universe, Pallbearer, R.I.O.T.S., The Evelyns, Divorce Chord, Wait, The Insides, Tem Eyos Ki, Sugar And The Raw, Rainy Day Regatta, Boomfancy, Gioteens, Shake Ray Turbine, Revolver Red, William Martyr 17, and K.

SNS at Vino's. Little Rock AR, December 1995.

13-year-old Mark Lierly and John Pugh. Riverfront Belvedere, New Year's Day, 1995.