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Yes L.A.

Compilation album EP by various artists
Released	August 1979 (1979-08)
Recorded	1978 – 1979
Genre	Punk rock
Length	13:26
Language	English
Label	Dangerhouse

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Vinyl District	A^[1]

Yes L.A. is a six-song compilation EP featuring first-generation Californian punk rock bands. It was also the final release of the short-lived but influential Dangerhouse Records label.^[1]

Overview

A one-sided picture disc released at the twilight of the early Los Angeles punk scene,^{[nb 1]} Yes L.A. features some of its most acclaimed bands:^[1] the Bags, the Eyes, the Alley Cats, Black Randy and the Metrosquad,^[3] X, and the Germs.^[2]

The record title makes parody of No New York,^{[nb 2]}^[2] the seminal no wave compilation album issued a year earlier,^[4] perceived as pretentious by West Coast punkers.^[1] The EP even included a satirical disclaimer printed on the disc saying: "Not produced by Brian Eno".^[4]

The compilation includes a 1978 rawer early version of X's song "Los Angeles", described by Dangerhouse Records co-founder David Brown as "a scathing, literal depiction of the scene which needs no explanation".^[5] The record also features a rare alternate mix of the Germs' "No God",^[6]^[7] a song originally produced by Geza X^{[nb 3]} for the EP Lexicon Devil,^{[nb 4]} previously released in May 1978.

The Yes L.A. EP has become highly sought after by record collectors.^[1]

Production and release

Yes L.A. was mastered by Jeff Sanders at Crystal Sound Studios in Hollywood, California.

All songs on the compilation were previously unissued, with the only exception of Black Randy and the Metrosquad's tune "Down at the Laundrymat", featured on the band's studio album Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie^{[nb 5]}^[10]^[11]^[12] from July 1979.^[8]

Yes L.A. was originally released in August 1979 on Dangerhouse Records,^[1]^[2] in a limited edition of 2,000 copies^[4]^[8] pressed on 12-inch clear vinyl discs.^{[nb 6]}^[1]^[13]^[14]

Artwork and packaging

Designed by Pat Garrett,^[1]^[8] the record artwork was silkscreened by hand on the ungrooved side of each single disc,^[1]^[4]^[8] with one of three different color combinations, namely, green/black,^[15] green/blue,^[16] and green/red.^[17] Some of those copies were misprinted.^{[nb 7]} Examples include discs with text only,^[18] with the background image in front of the text, or the image and text on the side with the grooves, rendering such a record unplayable.

Some non-silkscreened black vinyl test pressings are known to exist.^[8]

Original copies came without a sleeve, instead packaged in a clear plastic bag with a white cardboard backing.^[4]

Reissues

At some point during the 1990s, the rights to Yes L.A. (and the entire Dangerhouse Records catalog) were acquired by Frontier Records.^[6]

In June 2013, after 34 years out of print, Yes L.A. was reissued by Frontier in a one-time limited edition of 1,000 almost exact replicas of the original EP^{[nb 8]}^[4]^[19]^[20] to commemorate the label's 100th release.^[1]^[6]

Track listing

Where it is necessary, songwriting credits are listed in the format lyrics/music.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"We Don't Need the English"	Craig Lee	Bags	1:13
2.	"Disneyland"	Joe Ramirez, John Richey/Ramirez	Eyes	2:00
3.	"Too Much Junk" (Dangerhouse version)	Randy Stodola	The Alley Cats	2:41
4.	"Down at the Laundrymat"	Black Randy/Bob Deadwyler	Black Randy and the Metrosquad	3:26
5.	"Los Angeles" (Dangerhouse version)	John Doe	X	2:12
6.	"No God" (Dangerhouse mix)	Darby Crash	Germs	1:54
Total length:				13:26

Personnel

Bags

Alicia Armendariz (pka Alice Bag) – vocals
Patricia Morrison (pka Pat Bag) – bass
Craig Lee (pka Craig Bag) – guitar
Rob Ritter – guitar
Terry Graham (pka Terry Dad Bag) – drums

Eyes

Joe Ramirez – vocals, guitar
Jimmy Leach – bass, backing vocals
Joe Nanini – drums
David Brown – organ

The Alley Cats

Randy Stodola – vocals, guitar
Dianne Chai – vocals, bass
John McCarthy – drums

Black Randy and the Metrosquad

Black Randy – vocals
Bob Deadwyler – guitar
Keith Barrett (aka KK Barrett) – drums
Pat Garrett – bass
David Brown – electric piano
John Duchac (pka John Doe) – percussions (wastebasket)

Exene Cervenka – vocals
Billy Zoom – guitar
John Doe – bass, vocals
Don Bonebrake – drums

Germs

Darby Crash – vocals
Pat Smear – guitar
Lorna Doom – bass
Nicky Beat – drums
Don Bolles – backing vocals and hand clapping
Pat Delaney – backing vocals and hand clapping

Production

Dangerhouse – production (track 4), co-production (1 to 3, 5), remixing (6)
Geza X – production (6), co-production (1)
Eyes – co-production (2)
Randy Stodola – co-production (3)
Jimmy Nanos – co-production (5), engineering (5)
Pat Rand (Pat Garrett) – co-production (5), graphic design
X – co-production (5)
Mike Hamilton – engineering (4)
Jeff Sanders – mastering

Notes

^ "Just as the scene was being split into harder-driving, superadrenalized extreme power metal-punk on one side and simpy new wave power pop on the other, the first L.A. punk compilation album, ... Yes L.A., was released..."
– Brendan Mullen^[2]
^ Antilles #AN-7067
^ "... We [Dangerhouse Records] were kind of feuding with him [Geza X] about some of his production techniques, which at the time was squirrelly because he's such a creative guy and he'd try anything. So we had taken the tapes of the Germs that Slash magazine owned and remixed them the way we would do it – sort of the Geza way. It was interesting to compare..."
– David Brown^[8]^[9]
^ Slash #SCAM 101
^ Dangerhouse #PCP-725
^ Dangerhouse #EW-79
^ 20 or 30, according to David Brown from Dangerhouse Records.^[8]
^ Frontier #FLP 31079

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Neff, Joseph (August 13, 2013). "(Re)Graded on a Curve: Dangerhouse Records' Compilation, Yes L.A.". The Vinyl District. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Spitz, Marc; Mullen, Brendan (2001). We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609807743. p. 181.
^ Lewis, Uncle Dave. "Black Randy & The Metrosquad: Artist Biography by Uncle Dave Lewis". AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Frontier Reissues Rare Punk Classic: Yes LA EP!". Frontier Records. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
^ Various artists (1991), Dangerhouse: Volumen One. Frontier Records. #FLP 31039. Liner notes.
^ ^a ^b ^c LeBlanc, Larry. "Industry Profile: Lisa Fancher". CelebrityAccess. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
^ Backman, Karl. "The Germs Discography". The Summer of Hate. Archived from the original on October 7, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Richardson, Ryan. "Dangerhouse Records" (history and commented discography, page 2/2). Break My Face. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ Yohannan, Tim (August 1991). Title unknown (interview with David Brown from Dangerhouse Records). Maximumrocknroll (99).
^ Black Randy and the Metrosquad, Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie. AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
^ Black Randy and the Metrosquad, Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie. Discogs. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
^ Black Randy and the Metrosquad, Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie. Rate Your Music. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
^ Yes L.A.. Discogs. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
^ Yes L.A.. Rate Your Music. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., image of the green/black Frontier version. The Punk Vault. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., image of the green/blue Frontier version. The Punk Vault. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., image of the green/red Frontier version. The Punk Vault. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., image of a misprinted copy. Break My Face. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., 2013 reissue. Discogs. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
^ Yes L.A., 2013 reissue. Rate Your Music. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

External links

"Frontier Reissues Rare Punk Classic: Yes LA EP!". Frontier Records.

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