Fuck Shit Piss 7 Song Demo!

    Hey more FSP? Yep.  Fuck Shit Piss was the best band ever from Las Vegas in my opinion and they were the definitive band of 80's hardcore that no one even knows about.  More than any other band they were the dreams, hopes, and insanity that was hardcore.  Their breaking up ripped the scene apart.  

    What caused the split?  It's too involved to get into here but it involved a clash of ideals.  Ultra right wing politics got involved in the scene and suddenly the peacepunk "movement" was on the rocks.  Allegiances were drawn up and it was like a divide and conquer scenario.  At it's heart the split was political but was it?  It signaled the end of whatever hardcore could have been in my eyes.  The scene died shortly thereafter in a swirl of violence and paranoia becoming Nazi versus anti-Nazi.  The music changed after that.

    God the story doesn't end there by a longshot but back to the music!  The seven song demo finds Fuck Shit Piss sounding a lot more "traditional" hardcore in some ways but still uniquely LVHC!  Drummer Mike Fouts fucking rules.  Great solos from Kevin (what's his last name?!?) that get to the point but are still super inventive.  The band is tight!  Great bass licks from Johnny Bangs but they sound kinda buried in this mix.  And Danny with the charisma and words worth hearing.  I swear I hear a slight JFA influence.  The guitars get all jangly- bordering on surf in some spots but it's got more teeth to it than JFA.

    Standout songs:  shit all of them but Creepy Crawl is a song I think David Hayes from Very Small records would be grinning over.  That might be my fave too but all of these songs are important to me.

    They did an interview on KUNV 91.5 and played this demo on the air when they put it out in 1987 maybe it was 88.  I taped it and that was my copy for years, more like months, until it was eventually borrowed, stolen, or possibly had beer spilled on it.  If you have a copy of that interview please digitize it for christsakes.  Or send it to me and I guess I'll add it to the list of stuff I need to digitize. 

    So glad I got this again!  Thanks again to Jeff Murphy for sending this to me!  Now we can all hear it!  Much thanks to Jeff Hughes for the above picture of FSP at the North LV Elks Lodge which was my first punk show!  1986!    

Download all the Fuck Shit Piss songs I have by clicking here!
or download individual songs by clicking them below

1. Lost Cause

2. Judgement

3. Vicious Social Circle

4. Pride

5. Guns and Bullets

6. Creepy Crawl

7. Waterbed

Fuck Shit Piss- rehearsal digitized!

    After we stopped rolling tape for the interview I drank another beer and James mentioned that he had a few cassette tapes from old Vegas hardcore bands.  I flipped!

    Turns out he has a few live FSP recordings plus some other random demos.  He let me borrow a few and here's the result of my digitilizing.  Hope I earned my wings with this audio engineering feat.  People are ripping cassette demos half assed all over the internet/blog world with records skipping and the whole bit so hopefully this digital copy will do the source material justice.

    Speaking of which... the source material as you can imagine is pretty bad.  If you are unfamiliar with Fuck Shit Piss then do not start here!  Download the Call Me Paranoid Demo which has it's own issues but is still eminently better quality than this tape.

    When looking through his tapes we found one that had Foghat written on it and scratched out, then Thompson Twins scratched out, then Tears For Fears scratched out and then it said FSP.

    I didn't digitize that one.  Instead I digitized the tape that is pictured above.  Sure the label says FUCK SHIT PISS 1985-86, but on closer inspection you'll notice this is a Prince and the Revolution tape.  It's copyrighted 1985 so I'm pretty sure this was the album that has Raspberry Beret.  If you start to hear that song bleeding over in the mix then you'll know why.  I didn't detect that after listening to it a few times.  If you hear it then start dancing motherfucker.  

    Something tells me you might not listen to this more than once anyway unless you're a diehard FuckShitPiss fan.  But I wouldn't be surprised if some of you do just that.  I've never heard some of these songs before most notably FSP on Everything.  

    I didn't know the names of quite a few songs.  If you know the song titles fess up and I'll change them here.  This was my first attempt at digitizing from a cassette.  Being that it's a rehearsal I've grouped songs together within tracks.  It's hardcore so the songs go by fast anyway.

     James nailed it in the interview, these guys really did have a jazzy style.  Super catchy.  The songs I left untitled are the songs I've never heard before.  It's funny how straight up poppy those songs come off.  The hardcore sound is still there but they were really broad in terms of style.  At that time most hardcore bands were just furious energy but these guys definitely had their share of hooks.

    The run down is as follows to the best of my knowledge:  drums: Mike Fouts, Vocals: Danny Breedon, Bass: Johnny Bangs, Guitar: Kevin.  As usual any gaps you can fill in will help the history books.  Not sure when this tape was recorded either.  I'm assuming 85-86.  No other date is evident on the tape itself. 

    A word of warning- the tape started in the middle of a song and ended in the middle of a song.  Also, when I digitized them I might have mixed up the order.  If you got a better copy get in touch.  While you're at it how about sending me more stickers, graphics, and photos if you got em?  Jeez is this blog turning into an FSP blog or what?

Download the first two FSP demos and most of the songs featured here by clicking here!

Otherwise download this rehearsal tape by clicking the individual links below.
1. Unknown Song (starts awkwardly, that's how the tape was)
2. Fuck Shit Piss on Everything
3. another unknown song
4. hey another song I'm unfamiliar with
5. Call Me Paranoid
6.  Creepy Crawl
7.  Disagree
8.  Frequency
9.  Living the American Dream
10.  another unknown song