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Live At Max's Kansas City 1981

by Mandy Zone & Ozone

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Broken Toy 02:15
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Shotgun 02:53
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Emergency 04:09
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The Chain 03:28
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Watchdog 03:35
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Rockie Fever 04:16
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XYZ 03:18
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Dawn 03:12
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On The Run 03:50
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Mandy Zone & Ozone "Live At Max's Kansas City 1981"

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“The Fast were a footnote to New York’s already-peripheral 1970s proto-punk scene, so Ozone, their offshoot act, were a footnote to a footnote. But unlike tax codes and textbooks, in rock n roll the most fascinating stuff is in the margins. The musical underground has always been the tiny-font subscript giving meaning to the mainstream, and Ozone were absolutely magnifying glass-worthy marginalia.” - Jake Austen - Rocktober Magazine, from the CD liner notes

During the early ‘80s Mandy Zone’s Ozone assaulted the New York City rock club scene with a dramatic, over-the-top Pop/Punk/Metal/Glam hybrid, leaving behind only an obscure promo 7” release as proof. Now for the first time, the regal power of this explosive unit’s ALL HITS ALL THE TIME aesthetic is finally revealed on this definitive anthology CD, featuring a vintage full set of songs recorded at the legendary Max’s Kansas City, as well as selected bonus peformances and the complete studio recordings. More than 70 minutes of unforgettable earwormage appears here with a 16 page booklet crammed with info, pictures and other ephemera, painstakingly compiled and remastered by Weasel Walter.

“My discovery of Ozone’s devastatingly great music came in the most roundabout way possible. In the mid-2000s, when Netflix would send you DVDs in the mail, I checked out a seedy reissue of a 1976 Carter Stevens porn flick called “Punk Rock”, ostensibly a cheap quickie trying pathetically to capitalize on the then-nascent NYC punk club scene. Being a rock trivia geek, the main draw was the grimy footage of the obscure bands tacked on to the unwatchable sex and dopey “private detective” plotline. The main event turned out to be two songs performed quite raucously by the seminal power pop group The Fast, a combo featuring TWO sets of brothers, most notably the Zones - Paul, Miki and Armand. The maniacal low-budget genius of the group displayed in these film clips (shot at the legendary rock dive Max’s Kansas City, where they used to sit down at tables and watch the show!) blew my mind, particularly the weird, shrieking falsetto of the iron cross-laden, proto-goth keyboardist, Armand (or Mandy, for short). Inspired moments of genius like these, especially when they are excavated from obscurity out of the rubbish bin of the past, tend to etch themselves into my psyche permanently. Forward to 2012: I am in Los Angeles, newly deputized as Lydia Lunch’s guitarist and bandleader in Retrovirus and, somehow, my predilection for these little clips of The Fast come up in discussion. Turns out that back in the day, the teenaged Lydia used to run in a pack with Paul Zone - the only remaining brother of the three, and bearer of the torch, so she introduces us. Paul is very happy to hear about my rabid enthusiasm - especially my ravings about his brother’s unique talents - and I am glad to make a connection with somebody I believe is an important historical figure. Paul and I kept in touch. Around 2015, Paul sent me a copy of a live set by his brothers’ band he had dug up, just for fun. I was immediately floored and played it on an endless loop. My life was pretty frickin’ complicated at that point, but after listening to it a few more million times over the following three years, I realized I should ask Paul if I could release it. Paul was happy to say yes, so the long process of editing and remastering began as well as sifting through the visual artifacts. So, here it is - a labor of love and a tribute to Mandy Zone and his able cohorts.” - Weasel Walter, 2019.

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released November 30, 2019

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Classic NYC power glam/pop/punk/metal awesomeness from this quartet led by the late Mandy Zone (ex member of the Fast)

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