YES L.A. compilation 12in.
(EW79 — released 1979)

BAGS ~ We Don't Need The English
EYES ~ Disneyland
ALLEYCATS ~ Too Much Junk
X ~ Los Angeles
BLACK RANDY ~ Down At The Laundrymat
GERMS ~ No God

DB: At this point we were trying to come up with some 12" single to do. I pitched the idea of doing a clear silkscreened album with two colors and suddenly there were 2000 records sitting in my living room with a silkscreen put together. We actually did it, we did screen prints for about a week and a half, all of them by hand. I would say only about 20 or 30 were screwed up. It was a very successful piece of design by Pat, very professional artwork. So I was proud to be doing my part on the production end.

There had been an album done like that in one color, I didn't necessarily cook up the complete idea of doing that. We wanted to do a picture disc very badly, or something that would have saleability, something that would move all of them right away. But we knew that most of the technologies for that at that time were really kind of crappy. You got bad sound quality. So the Yes L.A. idea, not putting music on one side and trashing that side by silkscreening it, meant we could concentrate on the selection of songs and the mastering, or so we thought.

So, at that point we were kind of feuding with Geza X a little bit, because he was screaming about the work we had done with the Deadbeats and the Bags. I guess at that point the Bags were national, but the Deadbeats had never made squat because they proceeded to disband just about the day their record came out and nobody really wanted to buy any records from a band that had broken up anyway. We were kind of feuding with him about some of his production techniques, which at the time was squirrelly because he's such a creative guy and he'd try anything. So we had taken the tapes of the Germs that Slash magazine owned and remixed them the way we would do it — sort of the Geza way. It was interesting to compare. I admire Geza very much for the work he's done over the years and I understand he runs an outstanding studio now, but I haven't seen him in years.

Let's see, the other cuts... the Black Randy cut was something we'd dragged up from the old house on Carlton way back in the beginning when Pat was living in Hollywood. This was the first time X's "Los Angeles" appeared, also from their first sessions. Okay, the Bags, that was the first thing of theirs. Well, the single came out about the same time.

BMF: 2000 one-sided discs pressed on clear vinyl (with the exception of the non-silkscreened black vinyl test pressings). The background graphic is green on all copies. Text colors include: blue, green, red, black, and pink (exceedingly rare). Copies exist with text only, graphic only, and no silkscreen. Yes L.A. marks a highpoint of creativity and quality for the label, unmatched by any label since.