SHITHAUS - CRUSH: LIVE CRUSH 84 - 85 (CASSETTE, US) DATE: 1985 LABEL: MOC/Self Released CAT NO.: n/a A1. Intro A2. Crush Jam A3. Rubber Doll A4. Walking Insane A5. Fire Ritual A6. Eye Gouge A7. Warm Leather A8. Weenie Up Nevilles Butt A9. Constant Decay B1. Fag Hag B2. Film Song B3. Texas B4. When It Comes Time B5. May Day B6. Brain Dogs B7. Swan Song (White Ice) B8. I Like It Like That NOTES: VIEW: [NEW INFO FROM: http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2008/01/noise-with-neville.html] Self-released/hand-made cassette by Shithaus (exact number in circulation is unknown). This is a pre-Pussy Galore band featuring Jon Spencer, Tod Ashley (of Fire Water and Cop Shoot Cop), Tom Fry and Jamie Jacquin. Part of the tape was recorded during a live broadcast on a show called 'Noise with Neville' on 90.1 WRIU, Kingston, RI.     For this broadcast the band are going by the name 'Knocked-Up Teens' because the name 'Shithaus' was not deemed "broadcast worthy by FCC regulations". "Neville was a demagogue of the Providence noise-rock and proto-industrial scenes of the mid 1980s. The program ran from at least the Spring of 1985 into the Summer of 1987. Today the wherabouts of Mr. Neville are unknown."  Also as stated on the broadcast the band management was 'Method of Control' whose 'MOC' logo can be seen on the bottom-right of the cover image. The DJ gives a run-down of the bands equiptment which includes; "Olds Mobile Gas Tank, Chevy Gas Tank, A Grinder, a drum board, A couple of cassette decks, fully fledged rhythm section, a guitar and some vocals". Most of the above information is courtesy of Jose Fritz. Visit his blog to read the complete entry and to hear a short audio sample of this release which includes a Jon Spencer introduction ("Hey stick around you might enjoy it."). When It Comes A Time was also released on the cassette compilation UHF/Channel 14. The photo of Pussy Galore (see images) is from 1987 and features a "Shithaus - Crush" sticker on the guitar played by Jon Spencer. Shithaus released one cassette in 1985 and the music was used in two experimental films directed by Jon Spencer called 'Pus: The Movie' and 'Ponzo's Masterwork'. There was also a  16mm Black and White film titled 'Shithaus' which was released on V/A feat. Jon Spencer - Cinema Of Transgression Vol. 1 (VIDEO, US). OTHER NOTES: There is not a great deal of information known about Shithaus and pretty much everything available on the internet comes from a very limited number of sources which are as follows: *Shithaus played a gig at AS220, Saturday September 7, 1985, gallery in Rhode Island - as220.org *“sluggo: I remember seeing Shithaus, which was an early incarnation of Pussy Galore, play in a chicken wire-cage in this damp basement where everyone was covered in fluorescent paint”. - dragking.org *Jim Thirlwell mentions Shithaus in an interview: "FOETUS: I totally respect Cop and I think Tod is a great songwriter. He acknowledges the fact that certain songs have a heavy Foetus influence. We're close buddies and we collaborate. SECONDS: Did he play with you as a band-member? FOETUS: He played on a few songs on Gash, but he wasn't in the band. No, him and Jon Spencer hooked up at Rhode Island School Of Design. Him and Jon had this band called Shithaus and then he had a band called Dig That Hole." - foetus.org *A message which refers to the Shithaus cassette: "ok, someone mentioned that in the early 80s in Providence some band that played in the apt. next to them was pussy galore. Most likely that was Jon's first band Shithaus which he was in with, I believe, one of the principles in the noise rock band Cop Shoot Cop. I have the Shithaus cassette which was the soundtrack to a student film or something circa 84-85. I am not positive but I thought Pussy Galore was an idea in Providence but became a band when Julie and Jon moved to DC in like summer 1985. Where Neil lived I don't remember. Christina, Jon's wife, from Boss Hog lived in DC then and worked at Hagen Dasz 83/84-ish with Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins, but I was too young to know all this at the time. They were resoundingly hated here because their lyrics were so harsh and their attitude so unlike DC. for me the thing is that people thought they were arty because they had no other frame of reference. If you were a critic who never heard the Keggs or the Green Fuzz, but you liked no wave bands, ehh... It's like the people who talk about VU as new wave but never seem to notice the rock roots which form a lot of their songs. I don't hear the sun ra references in people's stuff because I don't have that in my repetoire. - Don" - xnet2.com/bomp/searchable/0001/msg00564.html VIEW: Shithaus releases SONG CREDITS: Band: Jon Spencer, Tod Ashley, Tom Fry and Jamie Jacquin.  Instruments: Olds Mobile Gas Tank, Chevy Gas Tank, A Grinder, a drum board, A couple of cassette decks, full fledged rhythm section, a guitar and some vocals Recorded at "our very own production studio" Broadcast on 'Noise with Neville' on 90.1 WRIU, Kingston, RI. SLEEVE NOTES: “Playback at Max Vol.” DETAILS: ARTWORK: [unknown] BARCODE: n/a MATRIX/RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING: n/a RELATED LINKS: tenwatts.blogspot.com / tenwatts.blogspot.com/2008/01/noise-with-neville.htm / foetus.org / foetus.org/text/seconds2.html (Jim Thirlwell interview) dragking.org / dragking.org/interview2.html (Shithaus reference) / grunnenrocks.nl / geocities.com/thetodhole...Tod A. Website (w/most Shithaus info and links) / geocities.com/thetodhole...Tod A. Website (Shithaus Page) / xnet2.com/bomp... (Shithaus Message) / http://postcards.blogs.com (Tod A. blog) / firewater.tv