Monday, August 1, 2011

PINK COLLAR JOBS - "They're All The Same" - Tape - 1996

   PINK COLLAR JOBS were the first (and last) band I ever played with in the beautiful mountains of  Boone, NC. These four unassuming, overly friendly college students fed my band and made us feel at home in their college apartments. Then, when they got behind the mics and plugged the guitars in, they became our new favorite band; screaming about politics and who-knows-what (you try and decipher these lyrics without a lyric sheet). That little show in a tiny little attic (called the "Jesus Saves Space"...jokey..they were not Christians) spawned some friendships that last to this day. I threw this tape in my tape deck and it stayed there for months. Once, on tour, someone broke out the window of our tour vehicle and only stole the PINK COLLAR JOBS and JOAN JETT tapes, even though all of our equipment and band money was sitting there in plain view.
    "Pennsylvania" is a sorta simple anthem that will play on repeat somewhere in the back of my mind until the day I die. It's been there since '96 and it's not going anywhere. "Without Your Spine" is flawlessly flawed in a totally beautiful way and I still can't believe that Lynn can scream all the words to that song that fast without puking.
  Members of this band went on to play in DEAD THINGS, NASTY PONIES,  and a slew of others including a brass band that I do not know the name of.
   Put this on and remember that NO ONE could afford a good recording in the 90's. No one good, anyway.
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                            Updated 2013

3 comments:

Nicko McPhoenix said...

I was in a band called unit 35 and we played a show with pink collar jobs in Myrtle Beach at a place called mr.yucks.About 15 bands.Later you came to Charleston SC and played a show with us in Ladson.Still remember Lynn.Really liked her voice and playing.Good times back then.

Nicko McPhoenix said...

I was in a band called unit 35 and we played a show with pink collar jobs in Myrtle Beach at a place called mr.yucks.About 15 bands.Later you came to Charleston SC and played a show with us in Ladson.Still remember Lynn.Really liked her voice and playing.Good times back then.

James said...

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