Music Notes: The Messrs Phillips and The Pisser Crash

Mr. Presley's first recordings were in the Memphis studio of Sam Phillips. The Beatles' first recordings took place in the Liverpool studio of Percy Phillips.

An Amazon listener review of Germicide: The Germs Live at the Whisky (The Germs' first recordings took place on stage in front of an audience) includes this sentence which deserves to be memorialized for its outstanding astuteness:

They sound as if they have practiced, since they are all on the same page, but the beats and tunings are lost (most often by lead singer Bobby Pin, later to be called Darby Crash), so they probably practiced for a week (the first time any of them picked up their instruments) and then took two weeks off before this show.

For this is indeed exactly what this performance sounds like. Band picks up instruments for first time and practices for a week, takes two weeks off then records their first show.

Most songs end with a Darby Crash valley boyish whine along the lines of "FUCK YOU, c'mon up here if you think you can do better." Most songs start that way too. Though one also has Darby asking for his "chord" and the guitarist responding with a strum that yields notes adding up to a "chord" never heard before or since. Truly Darby's chord.