The Unband-The Unband (1994)

Artist: The Unband

Title: The Unband

Label: Moonpig Records

Format: CD

Cat: none

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition: US 1994

Sell Price: $29.99 VG+/VG+ 2/28/23

Discogs Last Sold: 9/19/21 VG/VG+ $20.00

Low:$18.00

Median: $26.59

Average: $25.19

High: $29.99

Current low price: none 

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 0

Have/Want: 8/6

Where Sold: Oakland, CA

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When  Kims dollar cd wall St Marks

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

Sometime in the 90's a drunk patron yelled in the Marz Bar that the Unband were playing around the corner at Continental and we would really suck if we didn't go.  So having nothing better to do at 1 in morning on a weekend, I went to and liked the show, particularly one song "We Like To Drink, We Like To Play Rock n Roll."  Some point between this and their one big shot years later on TVT Records in 2000, I found this on the closeout dollar shelf at Kim's, so I bought it.  Clearly it wasn't that widely available as this was the lone copy up on Discogs and someone bought it for 30 bucks.  This was a bargain since I had it up on Amazon also for $98.98.  Don't laugh, I've had $100 sales before.  On streaming they call the album Chung Wayne Lo Mein, but that title is nowhere to be found on this edition.

Most of these songs track at under 90 seconds and aren't particularly memorable like the drinking and rocking song that clocks in over 4 minutes.  There are also many short instrumentals.   TVT had them regularly pushing 3 minutes when they evolved into a touring pop band.

You can read all about it in bass player Ruffino's book.