{"id":192,"date":"2013-10-06T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drstrange.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/beaver-st-lp-reissue-album-review-via-freedom-of-expression-blog-frank-foe\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T21:59:20","slug":"beaver-st-lp-reissue-album-review-via-freedom-of-expression-blog-frank-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.drstrange.com\/blog\/rare-punk-records\/beaver-st-lp-reissue-album-review-via-freedom-of-expression-blog-frank-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver “s\/t” LP Reissue: Album Review via Freedom of Expression Blog (Frank Foe)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Beaver “s\/t” LP Dr. Strange KBD Reissue
BEAVER
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Album Review via Freedom of Expression Blog (Frank Foe) frankfoe.blogspot.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Tom Lyle<\/a> (aka Tom Cleaver in Beaver) eventually ended up in Government Issue<\/a>. Beaver, originally recorded these tracks for the now \u201cKilled By Death\u201d, DC HardCore<\/a> 7\u201d that had an original press of 300.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I love this passage from punkvinyl.com<\/a>:<\/span>

<\/span>Beaver started out as a solo project of Tom Lyle\u2019s. Then it became a real band, albeit short lived. Here\u2019s a brief story Tom shared with me.
I was in a DC progressive\/new waver band, but became VERY bored with the whole scene. After seeing the Dead Kennedys<\/a> in April 81 at the 9:30, and then the Government Issue\/Youth Brigade\/Minor Threat show in June 81 at the 9:30 I started making home demo tapes<\/a> of me playing all the instruments in the most hardcore style I could come up with. I wanted to get a band together to play out live and used they rhythm section from Square One, the awful band I was in at the time. Then we got asked to record a record for Choice Cuts.
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That\u2019s how it was. Hear a band, see a band, change your life\u2026 just like that.
Dr. Strange has reissued this on LP, (400 on black vinyl, 100 on white vinyl) and added some demo tracks, also recorded in 1981.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>This is rudimentary hardcore, typical for the early 1980s. Tom Lyle eventually ended being an inspiration for me on guitar. I love his guitar style on all of the Government Issue material. I own a Marshall because of him. This is the roots, the developmental stage. Having been involved in hardcore during this time period, I have a certain affinity for all of this material.<\/span>
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Considering the early stage of hardcore, how fast this genre evolved, the lack of technology available for recording, Beaver, and all of their contemporaries were a part of something huge.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This is mandatory if you love hardcore.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Cheers,<\/div>\n
Frank FOE<\/div>\n

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