Drastic Measures Coming Soon + Flowers, live 1978

I'll be uploading a 1980 album by Drastic Measures soon. They were a Toronto new wave band. I used to sneak into clubs to see them back when I was 16 / 17 and the drinking age was 18.

I've gotten permission from Tony Malone to make videos for (and upload to YouTube), all 14 songs from their 1980 album. Those are coming soon. This video is to let people know about it, and also to give you a teaser of what they sound like. At the 3:57 minute point if you want to skip ahead to it, is a live recording of them playing "Flowers" in 1978. The upcoming series will have the album version of Flowers on it, but this one in this video was part of a compilation album made at the Horseshoe Tavern at a 2 day event called The Last Pogo.

The upcoming videos of the Drastic Measures album will be using really good quality versions of all 14 tracks. Much better quality than the original album I had back then, which was made on cheap, used vinyl.

So, enjoy this, eh. It's authentic, Canadian style new wave from the late 70s, described by others in many ways, including hybrid punk, and proto-Pogues-polka. All I know, is I like it. :)

Here's some links that I mention in this video...
Article on The Last Pogo 2 day show at The Horseshoe:
http://waxidermy.com/and-now-live-from-toronto-the-last-pogo/
Ruby Spirit, a band who Tony is collaborating with these days:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RubySpiritTV
http://therubyspirit.com/

Tony will be coming out with a new website for his music soon.

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[genki2genki]

My boss at A&A in Kitchener would tell me not to play the Drastic Measures album. Wasn't what people wanted to hear. As if!

[ScentedNectar]

@genki2genki I find mainstream music to be painful.

Drastic Measures, on the other hand, puts me in a beautiful mood.

Check out videos I made for Prelude and Postlude, if you like. Those were the two instrumentals that the album opened and closed with.

I'm very behind in the rest of the songs, but I hope to get the other 12 songs on video soon too. Tony is going to let me use some old pictures of the band that he has saved.

[ScentedNectar]

@ScentedNectar And by the way, thinking more about that, I hate your old boss, sight unseen.

Maybe if they had let you play the album, the band would have become more than just an alternative band with a cult following.

[genki2genki]

@ScentedNectar Don't get me wrong. She was a sweetheart. I probably played that album a bit too much for her liking. But I was nice and played PiL's Metal Box when she was out. What fun those days were!

[ScentedNectar]

@genki2genki Who's PiL? Well, I'm glad that you got to play it a bit anyways. I thought you meant you weren't allowed to play it at all. :)

[dbailey62]

Terrific. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more. I saw Drastic Measures at the Edge on a handful of occasions as well as at Ontario Place where they shared the bill with the late BB Gabor and a headline act who I cannot remember right now. Hmmmm.

Now, if only I could find the CD reissue of the LP which (I might be wrong) might have included the Wild Boys tracks as well???? I think I have a cassette of Tony on CFNY's Cooking With Guests that included those songs.

[ScentedNectar]

@dbailey62 Prelude and Postlude are finally ready to upload. I want Tony to see the final versions first though, which I sent him the other day. I missed that Cooking With Guests back then. Didn't even know they were on it. I'd have loved that.

I was sad to hear about BB when I looked him up on the net a few months ago. I used Soviet Jewellery in a video I did a while back, watch?v=yqr7vlHh_4A You have to skip ahead to the 1:00 point though to get to the song.

Good music back then, eh? :)

[ScentedNectar]

@Skylinerealities Ah shucks, thank you! :)

[Skylinerealities]

A video full of pure class, much enjoyed watching.

[ScentedNectar]

@EuphoricImpact That would be pretty neat if they do have it. I'm still shocked over the fact that you knew and played this song. Totally unexpected. :)