Boulder-Anchored Down b/w Dimbulb-Penelope Pitstop/Out The House (1995)
Artist: Boulder/Dimbulb
Format: 7"
Cat: AS 015
Year of Release: 1995
Country and Year of Edition: US 1995 300 pressing
Date of Sale: 6/21/23
Sell Price: $8.26
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 11/3/22 NM/VG+ $6.99
Low:$5.00 NM/NM 1/23/22
Median: $8.12
Average: $9.22
High: $16.30 11/3/12 NM/NM
Current low price: $17.32
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2
Have/Want: 34/33
Where Sold: Mahopac, NY
Time It Took To Sell: 8 years
Where and When Bought: new NYC Other Music $3.99 sticker still on it
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
For the 28 or so years I've had this 7" of Cleveland Noise Rock, I don't think I ever thought of this as a Boulder split single. I thought I had "discovered" Boulder seeing them at the Continental around 1999 where I purchased their 12", a single and a 10". Yet, I'm pretty sure I bought this 300 pressing slab of noise on a whim for the band Dimbulb. Other Music, the NYC store I bought it at, placed it on that side of the single where it remained with the "D" singles until this day of reckoning.
Since Boulder evolved into being the more popular band, I'll start with them. This track actually is a pretty good sludge rock song with a Greg Ginn-style guitar burst at the end. When Tee Pee issued them about 6 years later, they were a bit more straight forward Speed Rock. Here we find a lack of desire to be anchored down from the vocals, then the rocking begins. Good one!
Flipping to Dimbulb, this crams 2 songs over 7 minutes, so it's a bit more lo-fi. It kind of reminds me of something out of Chicago. Something guttural like Shorty or maybe early Unsane. It also has an outro guitar solo but it is a little buried in the lo-fi bass sludge. The second song seems downright melodic even through the buried murk. Multi instrumentalist Dave Cintron was part of Blind Spring, Downside Special, Scarcity Of Tanks, Speaker\Cranker, Terminal Lovers. Chuck Coffey came from Jakata. Ken Knish didn't do anything else.
I was wondering what happened to Boulder. Jamie Walters was most recently in Whitespade after being in Abdullah, Midnight, Mach II, Destructor and Terminal Lovers. Mark Gibbs also went on to Midnight. Pat Munn was on releases from Synastryche, Slot, Doktor Bitch, Tom Joad's Fist and Pickle Park. Terry Hachin was also in Mach II and Midnight. So many fuckin' bands! Midnight is indeed the one that is now on Metal Blade and touring regularly. I had no idea even seeing them 5 or 10 years ago and being at Tee Pee when they were on the label. Sometimes you forget people when you see them once in a dark room every 5 to 10 years.
Overall enjoyable for the genre.
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