Six Finger Satellite/Green Magnet School-The Declaration of Techno-Colonial Independence (1992)


Artist: Six Finger Satellite/Green Magnet School

Title: The Declaration of Techno-Colonial Independence

Label: Sub Pop

Format: 2X7"

Cat #: SP 172

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Red Vinyl/Yellow Vinyl

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 2/20/21

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold: 1/10/21 

Low: $3.00

Median: $5.98

High:  $8.80

Current low price: $4.83 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14

Have/Want: 232/62

Where Sold:  Brooklyn, NY

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Boston when it came out, not sure where

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: Yes

The best bands of their town in their time.  Green Magnet School from Framingham, MA and Six Finger Satellite from Providence.  United together for this regional tribute via Joyce Linehan's East Coast wing of Sub Pop.

A funny thing of note: I always assumed Green Magnet School's photo was considered the "front" and Six Finger the back.  The past calling into the future.  Discogs has the "back" cover as the main photo.  Bastards!  No slight to 6FS, but GMS belong on the front!  I filed it that way.

I knew GMS quite well via Red Bliss and guitarist Tim Shea's rented house of depravity at 108 Cochituate Road. But I completely forgot about the origins of the GMS A-side until today.  I forget the entire cast of characters who were with me at Captain Nemo's Pizza in Kenmore Square on the fateful evening that the inspiration for "12 Gauge" was born.  I am certain Tim was there and a song was inspired by a mentally askew lass that decided to join us uninvited for pizza.  The B-side covers Neil.  Seems Freedom was everyone's inspiration one way or another.

6FS was also in that scene so I remember them from demo tape years before the first EP came on Sub Pop.  I fuzzily remember a Providence party or few in the early 90s, and also trying to catch Jeremiah Ryan downstairs at the Middle East when he jumped off the stage.  He dwarfs me, and I only lasted about a second and a half. "I gotcha!" he whispered as my back began it's inevitable crumble.

Both these bands have mandatory releases: GMS has Blood Music 6FS has Severe Exposure.  They both have entire catalogs worth exploring, but those two records are among the finest Sub Pop had to offer.

Says the guy that grew up in Worcester.



 

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