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October 30, 2009

Permanent Green Light - Your Name On Everything *Audio* Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watc... From the self-titled Permanent Green Light EP (Gastanka/Rockville Records, 1992). PERMANENT GRE...

Permanent Green Light - Your Name On Everything *Audio*

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From the self-titled Permanent Green Light EP (Gastanka/Rockville Records, 1992).

PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT
The Story
After the Three O'Clock went out not with a bang but with the whimper of 1988's too-slick-by-half Vermilion, bassist-songwriter-leader Michael Quercio joined his buddy Scott Miller's band Game Theory in 1990. (Quercio had produced Game Theory's 1984 EP Distortion, and Miller had contributed "The Girl With the Guitar (Says Oh Yeah)" to the Three O'Clock's 1985 release Arrive Without Traveling). Unfortunately, Game Theory was in a state of flux at the time, and Quercio only contributed to a trio of re-recorded songs on Game Theory's final release, the compilation Tinker to Evers to Chance, and a 1989 fan club release, "A Child's Christmas Saving the Whales," of note to collectors both because it's a very funny faux children's story and because it includes an otherwise-unrecorded Quercio ballad called "Water" that's among the loveliest things he's ever written.

Joining Game Theory full-time would have meant leaving his beloved Los Angeles for Miller's Bay Area home base, so Quercio instead stayed home and formed the trio Permanent Green Light, named after a song on the Godz' Lester Bangs-approved 1967 release Godz Two. Quercio joined up with guitarist and secondary singer/songwriter Matt Devine (with whom Quercio had played some acoustic duo gigs at L.A. clubs as the Ferry Turnout) and drummer Chris Bruckner to return to a sound closer to the punky power pop of the Salvation Army than the psychedelically-tinged Three O'Clock. The trio signed with L.A. indie Gasatanka Records (home of White Flag and Redd Kross, not to mention local scenester supergroup the Tater Totz) and released a brilliant first single, "We Could Just Die," in 1991. The band's self-titled first album followed the next year, leading off with that career high point single and concluding with a lengthy acid rock experiment called "Chris Drops In (originally titled Against Nature)." That subtitle, nicked from the cult novel by J.K. Huysmans, eventually turned up as the title of the trio's second album in late 1993.

Although Against Nature largely improved on Permanent Green Light's spotty debut, Devine left the trio in 1994, eventually joining Medicine and working with Possum Dixon and other local groups. Devine was replaced by guitarist Bernard Yin and Quercio took over all songwriting and vocal chores for the group's next single, 1995's "You Are the Queen of Market Street." Apparently, a full album was recorded with Yin, but it remained unreleased. Two tracks eventually showed up as the final Permanent Green Light single, "Hitler With Mascara," in 1996, as Yin was leaving the group. Adding guitarists Jason Shapiro and Dan Epstein to the lineup, Quercio changed the name of the band to the Jupiter Affect in 1997.
(from AllMusic.com)

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