Beach Blvd

For other uses, see Beach Boulevard.
Beach Blvd
Compilation album by various artists
Released Summer 1979
Recorded November 1978 – July 1979
Studio Media Art
Genre Punk rock
Length 31:39
Language English
Label Posh Boy
Producer Robbie Fields

Beach Blvd is a seminal compilation album featuring early Californian punk rock bands.

Overview

An influential sampler LP, Beach Blvd helped to ushering in the hardcore punk movement in suburban Southern California,[nb 1] aided by DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who gave the record its first airplay on his weekly radio show Rodney on the ROQ at KROQ-FM.[2][3][4] Conceived by the controversial Robbie "Posh Boy" Fields,[nb 2][2][3][4][5][6][7] the album gathered three bands with quite different musical styles: the Crowd[8][9] from Huntington Beach, Rik L Rik[10][11][12] from West Covina, and the Simpletones from Rosemead.[3][5][13]

The record title advertised the music's suburban origins: California State Route 39, known as Beach Boulevard in Orange County, ran inland from the Crowd's hometown to Rik L Rik's.[4]

Production

Produced by Robbie Fields,[3][4][5] all songs on Beach Blvd were recorded and mixed between November 1978 and July 1979 at Media Art Studio in Hermosa Beach, California.

The tracks credited to Rik L Rik are remixes[nb 3] of five demo songs recorded in November 1978[14] by the third lineup of Negative Trend,[11][15] where he was the lead singer. This versions features bass overdubs by Jay Lansford, who also added a new guitar track on "Atomic Lawn".[14]

Beach Blvd was mastered by Lanky Linstrot at Wally Heider's Mobile Recording Truck, based in Hollywood, California.

Release

Only three songs featured on Beach Blvd were previously released: Simpletones' "California" was the lead tune on their eponymous 7-inch single record[nb 4][16] from early 1979; while "Meat House" and "I Got Power" were issued as a Rik L Rik 7-inch single[nb 5][14][17] in mid-1979.

Accompanied by liner notes provided by Bingenheimer,[4] Beach Blvd was originally released in the summer of 1979 on Posh Boy Records, in 12-inch LP format.[nb 6][5][18] The album was also the Crowd's recorded debut.

Reissues

In 1981, Posh Boy Records issued a rare edition of Beach Blvd on cassette tape,[nb 7][19] which included, as bonus tracks, the entire Red Cross EP[nb 8] by Redd Kross from Hawthorne, California.[20]

The original release on 12-inch vinyl disc was repressed in 1986.

In 1990, Posh Boy issued a 29-track extended version on CD[nb 9][3][21] featuring liner notes by Fields and Tony Cadena. Bonus tracks included almost half of Like It or Not Live!,[nb 10][22] the only album by Rik L Rik's first band, the short-lived West Covina four-piece F-Word!,[11][12] recorded live at San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens in the spring of 1978 and released posthumously that same year. The 1990 CD edition also added six more Simpletones songs: "I Like Drugs", the B-side of the single "California"[nb 4] from 1979; "TV Love" from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 11][23] the first of Bingenheimer's compilations,[24] originally issued in 1980;[25] "Disco Ape" (aka "You Drive Me (Disco) Ape"), an unreleased Lansford arrangement of the Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)" from 1978; and tracks 13, 15 and 17, all released for the first time. The 1990 edition closed with three additional cuts by the Crowd: "Right Time", also taken from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 11] "Desmond and Kathy", and an instrumental rendition of the Archies' "Melody Hill" from 1969, both taken from band's first studio album, A World Apart[nb 12][26] from 1981.

In 1991, the original compilation was included in Richard Elerick's numbered 3-LP box set History of Rik L Rik,[nb 13][17][27] in conjunction with F-Word!'s album Like It or Not Live![nb 10] and Rik L Rik's The Lost Album[nb 14][17][28] from 1991.

In 2004, under license from Posh Boy, the Italian label Get Back re-released the 1979 12-inch LP.[nb 15][29]

The following year, Get Back released a 24-song Digipak CD edition,[nb 15][30] an abridged version of the 1990 edition.

Track listings

1979 LP release

Side A
No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Kirsty Q"  Jay LansfordSimpletones 2:50
2. "I Have a Date"  Lansford, Richard W. ScottSimpletones 2:29
3. "Tiger Beat Twist"  Lansford, Eric Kiertzner, David PerrySimpletones 2:02
4. "Black and Red"  Craig GrayRik L Rik 3:56
5. "Meat House"  Will Shatter, Craig GrayRik L Rik 2:44
6. "Suzy Is a Surf Rocker"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:21
7. "Living in Madrid"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:20
8. "Trix Are for Kids"  The CrowdThe Crowd 0:51
Side B
No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Modern Machine"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:29
2. "New Crew"  The CrowdThe Crowd 1:16
3. "I Got Power"  Rik L Rik, Craig GrayRik L Rik 1:31
4. "Mercenaries"  Shatter, GrayRik L Rik 2:36
5. "Atomic Lawn"  L Rik, GrayRik L Rik 2:07
6. "Don't Bother Me"  LansfordSimpletones 2:16
7. "California"  LansfordSimpletones 2:51
Total length:
 31:39

1981 MC edition

1990 CD edition

2005 Digipak CD edition

Personnel

Simpletones[16]
Simpletones (1990 CD edition)
  • Snickers - vocals (13, 14, 16)
  • Kendall - vocals (13)
  • Jerry - vocals (12, 13, 15, 17)
Rik L Rik
  • Richard Elerick (best known as Rik L Rik) - vocals
  • Craig Gray - guitar (A4, A5, B3, B4)
  • Jay Lansford - bass, guitar (B5)
  • Tim Mooney - drums
The Crowd
  • Jim "Trash" Decker - vocals
  • James Kaa (credited as Jim K) - lead guitar
  • Tracy Porterfield - guitar
  • Jay Decker - bass
  • Barry "Cuda" Miranda - drums
  • Dennis Walsh - drums (28 to 30 on the 1990 CD edition)
Red Cross (1981 MC edition)[19]
F-Word! (1990 CD edition)
  • Rik L Rik (credited as Rick L Rick) - vocals
  • Kenny Sercu (aka Dim Wanker) - guitar
  • Steve Effete (aka Steve Offut) - bass
  • David "Dutch" Schultz - drums
  • Dirk Dirksen - emcee (1)
Production
Additional production (1981 MC edition)[19]
  • Roger Harris - production, engineering (B6 to B11)
Additional production (1990 CD edition)
  • Robbie Fields – production (1 to 6, 12), co-production (14 to 17, 28 to 30)
  • Michael Corby - production (13)
  • Jay Lansford - co-production (14 to 17), arrangement (16)
  • The Crowd - co-production (28 to 30)
  • Chip Brown - engineering (1 to 6)
  • Uvex Reed - engineering (1 to 6)
  • David Hines - engineering, mixing (28 to 30)
  • Robert Vosgien - mastering
  • Christian Witt - graphic design
  • Tony Cadena (credited as Tony Montana) - liner notes
  • Robbie Fields – liner notes

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Beach Boulevard compilation came out ... just as the suburban hardcore attitude was beginning to kick in ... it sort of documented the rise of suburban punk."
                                    – Rik L Rik[1]
  2. ↑ The American-born Englishman, Robbie Fields, a former aspiring journalist, was the founder of Posh Boy Records.
  3. ↑ Done at Media Art Studio in Hermosa Beach, California.
  4. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 3
  5. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 4
  6. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 102
  7. ↑ Posh Boy #PBC 102
  8. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 1010
  9. ↑ Posh Boy #PBCD 88102-2
  10. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 101
  11. 1 2 Posh Boy #PBS 106
  12. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 108
  13. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 88101-1
  14. ↑ Posh Boy #PBS 119
  15. 1 2 Get Back #GET 114

References

  1. ↑ Spitz, Marc; Mullen, Brendan (2001). We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609807743. p. 181.
  2. 1 2 Boehm, Mike (July 23, 1989). "Kids of the Black Hole : The 1970s Were Waning When Orange County's Punk Rock Scene Roared Its Dark, Hostile Message" (page 4/6). latimes.com. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Boehm, Mike (July 19, 1991). "Punks to Revisit Beach Blvd : 3 Suburban Groups Will Play in Huntington to Mark Release of Compilation CD" (page 1/2). latimes..com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Boehm, Mike (December 31, 1998). "Alt.Rock.OC: 20 Years of Suburban Struggle: Essential Albums, '78-98" (page 2/5). latimes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Vodicka, Gabe (August 6, 2009). "1979: Various Artists: Posh Boy - Beach Blvd.". tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Second ed., 2010. Feral House. ISBN 9781932595895. p. 80.
  7. ↑ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Second ed., 2010. Feral House. ISBN 9781932595895. p. 327.
  8. ↑ Robbins, Ira. "Crowd". Trouser Press. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ The Crowd, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ (July 5, 2000). "Obituaries: Rik L Rik; Pioneering Punk Rocker". latimes.com. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Rabid, Jack. "F-Word". Trouser Press. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  12. 1 2 MXV (February 6, 2006). "Selections from The Punk Vault (F-Word)". punkvinyl.com. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  13. ↑ Spitz, Marc; Mullen, Brendan (2001). We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609807743. pp. 181-182.
  14. 1 2 3 "Negative Trend Three". negativetrend.net. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Beach Blvd LP". killfromtheheart.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  16. 1 2 Simpletones, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  17. 1 2 3 Rik L Rik, cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  18. ↑ Beach Blvd, 1979 LP release cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  19. 1 2 3 Beach Blvd, 1981 MC edition cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  20. ↑ Tonooka, Tim (Fall 1981). Red Cross, Red Cross (EP), review. Ripper (5).
  21. ↑ Beach Blvd, 1990 CD edition cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  22. ↑ F-Word!, Like It or Not Live!. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  23. ↑ Various artists, Rodney on the ROQ. allmusic.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  24. ↑ Rodney on the ROQ, compilation series cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  25. ↑ Various artists, Rodney on the ROQ. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  26. ↑ The Crowd, A World Apart. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  27. ↑ Rik L Rik, History of Rik L Rik. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  28. ↑ Rik L Rik, The Lost Album. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  29. ↑ Beach Blvd, 2004 LP reissue cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  30. ↑ Beach Blvd, 2005 CD edition cover art. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.

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