At the 1989 In Pittsburgh Music Awards, local radio personalities for WDVE FM "Little Jimmy" Roach and Steve Hansen introduce Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, from the bands Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, to present the award for Best Album of 1989.
Tina Weymouth makes a cool statement about the difficulties inherent in making original music and then trying to get it heard. Then Chris and Tina (who, of course, are also husband and wife) present the nominations for Best Album in Pop/Rock/Country/R&B.
The nominees are:
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - "Rock and Real"
Half Life - "Never Give In"
Six Gun Jury - "Res Ipsa Loquitur"
Billy Price & the Keystone Rhythm Band - "Free At Last"
John Puckett - "15 Minutes in a Dark Room".
The award goes to Billy Price.
Six Gun Jury's "Res Ipsa Loquitur" is available to listen to here on YouTube and also to dowload for free here: http://www.mediafire.com/?eawyv21frkkqx
The above MP3 files were generated from better-than-CD-quality 96 kHz, 4608 kbps WAV files, which, themselves, were created directly from the analog studio master reel-to-reel tapes. Also included are a word document with all song lyrics, cover artwork & band pics.
Six Gun Jury - "Res Ipsa Loquitur": Re-discovered...for the first time by the world.
"Six Gun Jury deserves a shot at the majors."
~ John Hayes, Rockflash, August 1989
After 21 years, here is the world-wide release of "Res Ipsa Loquitur", the 1989 debut album of Pittsburgh alternative guitar rockers Six Gun Jury (1986-1990). The album that battled for top of the Pittsburgh alternative record charts during the summer of 1989, alongside such heavyweights as Pixies, The Lemonheads and 10,000 Maniacs, finally says its proper hello to the rest of the United States and the world.
"This guitar-based four-piece has quietly become a very tight and powerful group-to-be-reckoned-with."
~ John Young, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1989
"Res Ipsa Loquitur", which earned 2 nominations at the 1989 In Pittsburgh Music Awards (Album of the Year, Best New Band), features the "soaring vocals and emotional lyrics" of Ray McLaughlin (Orange Velvet Chairs, Chancellorpink) and the "Euro-style guitar work" of Mark Urbano (Mace, Una de Luna, Chupacabra). Here are the original 14 songs (and one bonus track), including the 1988 WXXP regular rotation commercial radio hit "Climb the Scene", as well as 2 songs ("All Alone in Rock 'n Roll" and "Chancellor Pink") which both finished in WPTS radio's Top 50 songs of 1987.
"McLaughlin enunciates a lot better than vintage Michael Stipe, and he belts the vocals with more of a rough, masculine, dramatic feel."
~ Peter B. King, Pittsburgh Press, September 1989
"Res Ipsa Loquitur", which features the impressive rhythm section of Buddy B. (Prague, Chupacabra) on bass and Jim Perry (White Wreckage, Between the Waters) on drums, also includes the air-tight ass kickers "Anthem" and "Everything You Are", along with "My Baby Cries", a song In Pittsburgh called "one of the most infectious songs done by one of our locals, ever." The album was expertly produced by Mike Michalski (The Heretics, The Cynics, The Kelly Affair) and engineered by Gregg Vizza at Audiomation Studios, during in the summers of 1987 and 1988. Cover artwork and design by Kurt Shaw, who is now the Art Critic for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Simply put, Six Gun Jury's "Res Ipsa Loquitur" is one of the hidden gems of 80s college alternative rock.
Six Gun Jury were:
Mark Urbano - guitar
Ray McLaughlin - vocals
Jim Perry - drums
Buddy B. - bass
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