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Lot #7338
Crime Original 1979 Demo Cassette Tape for ‘Crime Wave / TV Blue’ - The Band’s Unreleased Third Single

Estimate: $600+

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Original 1979 Crime Music demo cassette tape containing Crime’s unreleased third single, ‘Crime Wave / TV Blue.’ The tape label bears the band’s emblem, the record label copyright, and the names of the two songs with their running times. Both tracks were recorded in 1979 at His Master's Wheel and were produced by Eliot Maser. Issued as a promotional demo circulated to radio stations and record companies, with the total number of copies produced unknown. In fine condition.

From the archives of Norman Davis, the co-host of the pioneering punk radio show The Outcastes on KSAN-FM in San Francisco, America's first regularly scheduled punk rock radio show. For nearly two years, The Outcastes went live every Friday night from 2 to 4 a.m. (Saturday morning) and featured some of punk’s biggest early stars, including Devo, The Cramps, Roky Erickson, The Nuns, The Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, and the Sex Pistols. He interviewed Paul Cook and Steve Jones on January 13, 1978, a day before the band’s final concert at the Winterland. The interview was notorious for its airing of unedited expletives used by Cook and Jones, profanity that could have potentially cost the radio station its license.

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