Amateur Night - Kneeling Before Zod (1998) [FLAC] {Punch Yourself Music}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2026/05/26 RTLDATE: 1998/XX/XX
GENRE: Rock SiZE: 367 MB
SOURCE: CDr RUNTiME: 17:48
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: US
RELEASE: Punch Yourself Music
MATRiX: N/A
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The AllMusic Guide (surprisingly) adds. . .
San Francisco power pop quartet Amateur Night came together in mid-1996
the way most bands tend to: mutual friendships and the fortuitous
placement of an ad seeking a drummer. Guitarists/vocalists Greg Heller
and Tim McGoey grew up together in Laguna Beach, CA, at one point co-
fronting the Orange County subterranean metal outfit Tubesteak. McGoey
and Amateur Night bassist Ross Murray met at the University of
California at Santa Cruz in the early '90s; the pair (along with Heller)
relocated up the coast to San Francisco after graduation a few years
later. Drummer Sharon Lord rounded out the lineup in 1996 after
responding to an ad the other three had placed in a local weekly.
Drawing heavily from '80s Minneapolis alt-rock (the Replacements, Soul
Asylum), the band began performing shows in and around San Francisco by
the end of 1996, releasing a debut EP, Can't Stop Sitting, in February
of the following year. The elusive Kneeling Before Zod EP followed in
spring 1998, around the time Heller's on-stage antics of performing in
the absence of pants on occasion, among other risky business, began
making the local rounds. The singer/guitarist, a freelance music critic
for a number of Bay Area publications at the time, often drew the
considerable ire of other local musicians for his full platter of
caustic jabs in his weekly Night Fever column for BAM magazine.
A self-titled full-length released in March 1999 foreshadowed Amateur
Night's final year of activity as Heller eventually returned to Southern
California to further pursue a writing career; Lord also relocated
southward around the same time. Murray joined Actionslacks full-time
following the 2000 dissolution of the band, while McGoey played guitar
and sang with power poppers Make Me Famous in 2001 and 2002 before
moving to Chicago.
Ripper's Notes:
By the time I discovered the band this EP was already long gone. Even
the band didn't have any copies left themselves. It was only recently
one popped up on Discogs, so I was able to grab it. I have no idea if
they were all released as "Advance Copy" CDrs or not. I've never set
eyes, let alone ears, on the Can't Stop Sitting EP, and I promise to do
horrible/wonderful things to whomever can help me acquire a copy.
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