Action Painting #98

 

V-3 was a lo-fi experimental rock band from Columbus,Ohio in the 1980s-90s led by underground legend Jim Shepard (formerly of Vertical Slit). 

The album was released with a hand painted cover with paste on front/back cover slips. It was pressed at a slightly lowered volume level so you may want to crank it up. 

V-3 sez:
          "We would have just put 'play real loud' on the jacket, but that's simply a cheap ploy from another era..."

Here V-3 is: Jim Shepard - multi-instrumentalist, guitar; Leland Cain - bass; Al “Nudge Squidfish” Martin - songwriter, bass; Sam Brown  - multi-instrumentalist, drums; Rudy K. Smith - drums; David Mikula - drums.

Frontman Jim Shepard passed away in the late 1990s shortly after the group's demise, cementing their cult-legend status. 

 

V-3 - Pimpin' in the 90s, Iron Press 2027, 1998.
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Side 1 -
The Amateur Welder
Queen of the Underground
Defective
Car Horn in a Stinger Trap
Please Take Hold
Carnage on the Midway
Your Rival.
Indy Rock 101
You Smoke Ink?

Side 2 -
Contact!
Glam Rock Ray Gun
Talking to S.B.
Super Human 2
Squid Ink
Forever Low Man
Grip Connector
Voices in the Woods
Son of Sam Donaldson (Boom-Box demo excerpt)
Harlem U.F.O. Sighting #128
Bullet Through the Floorboards

 

 

 

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