Maillist
FOCUS ON: The Mentally Ill
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- Label: Alternative Tentacles >>
- Genre: Alternative & Punk
Of all the hotly sought-after original Killed-By-Death punk singles, few to none are as notorious - or mysterious - as the "Gacys Place" EP by The Mentally Ill.
The sleeve, the topics, the so-horrible-its-amazing production values, that voice. Many in the know crown it the sickest punk record ever made. But there is more - much more. The "Gacys Place" sessions yielded eight songs - only three were ever released.
A dig in the ol crawlspace turned up even cruder earlier demos with alternate versions of the EP songs, plus over half-a-dozen others, heard only by a handful of people. A true labor of man-boy love, it took Jello Biafra years to pry this loose from the band. They kept insisting each album be housed in a 3-foot wide scale model of Gacys house itself!
