Flower Noise, "Alien Cholesterol From the Planet Venuts" - cassette, 1991

1991. As well as the thousands upon thousands of live gigs over the years, the BG music scene has probably produced hundreds of recordings, ranging from cassettes to vinyl to CDs. Most of these languish today in boxes and basements and are rarely heard anymore, although if we here at AOBGN can help it, that will likely change. Here's a cassette cover for the band Flower Noise's 1991 release, Alien Cholesterol From The Planet Venuts. I know nothing about this early-'90s two-piece, so over to Bob Sadowy, who sent these in:

Flower Noise was formed by Brian Worthing and myself in 1991.  I sang and played acoustic guitar with Brian playing electric guitar.  We met in the record library at West Hall and we were both DJs for AM 680 WFAL, and Flower Noise eventually became the regular opening act (along with Derek Wolfgram) for Iain Ellis's Merry Can Men at Easy St Cafe's Open Mic night.

Our sound was influenced by Velvet Underground and early Pixies and we recorded this on 4 track and distributed the cassette at Madhatter Music Co. Jon Stavole, a mutual friend of the band, designed the cover art for the album; later, Jon and I formed The Sweaty Whiskers along with Joe Kelso (Shanty Digs) and Jeff Dewitte (Pogey Bait, Tin Ponies). 

"The final Flower Noise show [August 13, 1992--ed.] ended with Brian smashing his Ibanez on the Good Tymes stage . . . Stavole also designed the flyer for this gig."

Scapegoat, The Sweaty Whiskers - Good Tymes Pub, 9/23/92

September 23, 1992. A nice bi-color flyer which looks like it was colored in with felt tip pens; it's hard to tell from the scan. Over the weekend Todd Downerd, formerly of Scapegoat, sent Art of BG Noise this along with a few other flyers we'd never seen before. Scapegoat (Mark Barbour, vox; Todd Downerd, guitar; Vic DiAngelo, drums; Mark Kremser, bass) used to be called Acid Trip. Todd picks up the story:

Acid Trip was Mark Barbour playing guitar and vocals, Jay Zielske on bass and Shane Watkins on drums, and when Shane left, he recommended Vic and we changed the name to Scapegoat. When Jay left, I recruited Mark Kremser who lived downstairs from my apt. at the time. Kremser drew the new "mascot" (who may or may not have had a name, but I don't remember!) and also did most of the flyers at that point . . .

The version of Scapegoat with Barbour, Vic, Jay and I put out a tape called Grab the Goat by the Horns (because only Big Hunk O' Cheese did CDs at that time!) and the version with the Barbour, Vic, Kremser, and I later put out a cassette called Niminy's Basement (which was the name of the cat that hung out in the basement of Mark's place where we practiced).

Anyone have copies of the cassettes so we can scan the covers?

The Sweaty Whiskers were a whole other story which will have to wait for a future post.