Vom: Live At Surf City 7" 1978 33 White Noise Original KBD PUNK Electrocute Your

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This listing is for a 7" 33 EP from Vom: Live At Surf City 7" 1978 33 White Noise Original KBD PUNK  

Label: White Noise Records – WNR 001 Format: Vinyl, 7", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Rock Style: Punk
A1 I'm In Love With Your Mom [Vom, Kluszewski]   3:03 A2 Electrocute Your Cock [Meyer, Ginsberg, Dumbster, Sculatti, M. Koehn, Vom, Kluszewski]   1:58 B1 Too Animalistic [Ginsberg, Dumbster, Kluszewski]    2:37 B2 Punkmobile [Dumbster, Sculatti, Fingers, Vom]    1:40 B3 God Save The Whales [Fingers, Vom]    2:11
Artwork [Mr. Vom's Hair] – Marsha Meyer Bass – Gurl Drums – Ted Kluszewski Engineer – Leo Baldini Guitar – Davey Dumbster, Johnny Fingers Mixed By – Gary Gladstone Photography By [Back] – Mike Koehn Photography By [Front] – Bruce Osborn Producer – Jim Bickhart, Nicole-Elena Olivieri Sleeve – Ronn Spencer Vocals – Allen Ginsberg Jr., Mr. Vom Pre- Angry Samoans. 
Some copies have reversed labels. This copy is one with the reversed labels: The picture label is on the A side, the text label is on the B side. Easy to tell because the number of cuts are different.
Condition of vinyl: Slight wear from light play and handling, but basically Excellent.  Couple of factory dimples in the vinyl on A side. Sound samples are from the actual item for sale, and part of the description. Condition of sleeve: General age, wear and use, minor ring wear, small spot stain, no seam cuts. See photo scans for details.
Promo copy:  No Picture Sleeve:  Yes

The samples are from the actual record in the listing.

Side A

Side B

VOM was conceived in 1976 as a self-described beat combo featuring the renowned writer and critic Richard Meltzer on vocals, with Gregg Turner on second vocals and "Metal" Mike Saunders (under the pseudonym "Ted Klusewski") on drums. The band also featured Dave Guzman on "tuneless rhythm guitar", Lisa Brenneis ("Gurl") on bass guitar, and Phil Koehn on lead guitar. The name VOM was an abbreviation for "vomit", as their early live act was said by Meltzer and Turner to have included throwing various viscera, cow parts and food substances at the audience to provoke a reaction.
Both Meltzer and Saunders had already contributed to music as a whole in distinct conduits. Richard Meltzer had written The Aesthetics of Rock (written in '68 but published in '70) which was certainly the first serious discussion of rock music in long format as an art form.  Mike Saunders was credited for coining the term "heavy metal" as a music genre while writing for Rolling Stone in 1970.
Besides "I'm in Love With Your Mom" and "Too Animalistic" (both later incorporated into the Angry Samoans catalog), VOM were notorious for a song called "Electrocute Your Cock" [written with aid and assistance from writer Gene Sculatti], which began with Saunders' Ramones-like tom tom beat and Meltzer's cries of profane audacity, it had enough pop catchiness and wit to become a minor hit for the band. Other VOM material included "Broads Are Equal" and "I Am (The Son of Sam)".
The band released the posthumous Live at Surf City EP in 1978 on White Noise Records; 
Videos were produced for three of the EP's tracks, "I'm in Love With Your Mom", "Too Animalistic" and "Electrocute Your Cock", directed by Richard Casey (who went on to create videos for Blue Öyster Cult, Buck Dharma and Romeo Void).  "I'm in Love With Your Mom" was shot as the band performed on the beach, with Meltzer wearing briefs on his head.  The more humorous and visually interesting "Electrocute Your Cock" video included footage of Meltzer sprawling backwards in a chair while screaming the lyrics and sitting in a bathtub being electrocuted.  Both videos (and interviews with Meltzer, Saunders and Turner) were later included in the Angry Samoans True Documentary 1995 home video.
According to Turner, Meltzer "threw in the VOM towel" in 1977, which paved the way for Turner and Saunders to form Angry Samoans in August 1978.
White Noise Records was a record label founded in Los Angeles in 1978 by artists Ronn and Louise Spencer, writers Nicole Panter and Jim Bickhart, attorneys Gordon Rubin and Peter Paterno, and publicist Bob Merlis.
White Noise's first release was the 7-inch EP Live at Surf City (1978) by VOM, a short-lived punk ensemble led by notorious rock critic Richard Meltzer and featuring future Angry Samoans Gregg Turner and "Metal" Mike Saunders.
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