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Throttle

Throttle Tape back
4 piece jazzcore/thrash band started by former Gwar vocalist Joe Annaruma, former She-Males guitarist Paul Billbrough, and former Serial Killers bassist Tom Donovan. The band was started in 1988, with drummer Chuck Treece of McRad playing their first few shows, as well as recording drums on 4 songs on their 1st release, the Cassette only album Freaks (1989). Below is I assume an earlier  version of the demo with the 4 songs Chuck was on.

Demo 89

01 – Ugly World
02 – Lifes Tragedies
03 – Out of My Head
04 – Dead Mans Song
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Mama Volume

Mama Volume late 80’s early 90’s band with Michael Mosley (Blessed Muthas, Chris Day BANNED, Cowbell Superstar & Brown Sugar- Rolling Stones tribute band) Billy Taz (DTO), John Graff (She Males), Bayen Butler (Dandelion, She Males,) and Carl Hinds on lead guitar for this demo (Steve Hove was also lead guitar at some point) . First demo is their 3 song demo tape from 1990. Thanks Jackie for the tape and Michael for the info. I added a 2nd demo tape which I got the files for from Graft by way of Rennie

Second Demo Tape

01 – Godz
02 – Pieces
03 – Hippie Chick
04 – Storm Train
05 – 12 Pack
06 – Sucking Up to Voodoo (Reworked She Males song – Little Miss Nude New York)
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Demo Tape from 1990

01 – Viscous Circle
02 – Pieces
03 – Hippy Chick

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Demo case

She Males – Demos

Original She-Males:
John Gilmour – vox
Jon Graf – Bass
Weezul – Drums
Piss Torpedo – Lead Guitar
Bayen – Rythym Guitar

I started band after 5 Story Fall loved 5sf but it was getting kinda limiting you know? i was digging heavier stuff…. Weezul (Mike Mosely currently in Brown Sugar/Gibbous Moon) was drumming for the Sadistic Exploits who were kinda packing it in….he came on board to join 5sf but i told him lets do something new instead. I met Bayen thru Toby from Mr Mehta.  Weez grew up with Piss (who went on to play in Throttle after Shemales) We met Graf who was visiting from VA and decided to move to Philly start the band. When it wasn’t a complete shitshow Shemales was an amazing band.

We were in the right place at the right time with the right sound and we looked really cool…. this was before the 90s made all that rocknroll stuff look stock you know? We were taking influences from everywhere…. it was kinda freeing in 86 87 to breakout of that rigid hardcore boots and teeshirts look…. we were dressing like 1/4 crossdressing english post-punk glam shit 1/4 grebo zodiac mindwarp, motorhead etc… it was all fucking thrift store chic at the time. A lot of credit for how we looked goes to our girlfriends at the time.- Mine, Lisa Hilliard, Bayen’s Tammy Diner and Heather who was Dating Jon Young from the Slacks The girls, well Lisa owned a badass thrift shop in west philly called South of Soho Tammy and Heather worked there.. so they had access to tons of cool clothes and used to Hand Make all of our cool shit. I don’t think they ever got enough credit without them no distinctive shemale look

Me and Graf were drawing our lyric inspiration from Birthday party Nick Cave, Vosco from Ruin, Jim Thirwell. Baudelaire, cool cool shit when put on top of cool ass riffs We never wanted to play stock riffs Piss and Weez were music school grads so they were throwing in off time shit and crazy chords in the back ground that on top off Bayen’s absolute ear for killer rock riffs made for amazing tunes….. and we used to fuck with song structure as much as possible… no choruses or putting them at the end rarely verse chorus verse chorus. Then the whole traveling sideshow aspect e. g.

We named the band after a VHS porn series called She Male Encounters… our first early flyers were straight up shemale porn. Our first show, a bunch of Tranny streetwalkers thought it was some kind of support group, lol So about 15-20 showed up. They were awesome, became instant fans. We were the most popular rock band among phila’s black trans sexworkers. At one show three of them Diamond, Fabulous and So What saved me from being stomped by some skinheads around the corner from Revival. They carry razors in there wigs and who knew that high heels are amazing weapons.

Anyway the band had like 2 perfect years and i think we easily would have been on a major in the 90s, we were way ahead of the times e. g. Slash wore his She Male Tee shirt when GnR played their first show at the Troc. Chris Schwartz from Ruffhouse, who at the time was my best friend and our manager, was working his ass off for us but……..

My drug addiction ruined everything. I really let those guys down getting lost in Heroin/Alcohol and just this Ego driven Rock Star entitlement. I mean i was a kid i was 19-21and shooting Dope with Johnny Thunders…… shit so went to my head it stopped being about the music for me, it became about everything else. I stopped being able to create. It was weird after writing like 10 songs a week since i was 12 i spent the last year not being able to put 2 words together in a creative way. I would scat sing and pretend i had written lyrics…. puke on stage….. the whole 9.Same old story about too much too soon. Chris used to tell me “Nothing says nothing like nothing from the oven” He meant that no matter how big the hype at the end of the day if you can’t produce it just doesn’t matter so…..

Anyway She Males was great I had more fun than 100 monkeys…. people, and the band guys, ask me about doing a reunion but i can’t we tried one, it was awful for me lol, i can’t be the singer that the band and the crowd deserves when im sober. She Males need to stay Young Pretty and Mangled.

oh i forgot to mention the rest of the members…. so after Piss we had Trick from Grafs old VA hardcore band Schmyzer on Lead for a minute then he went on to play with Shag Motor Pony which was Charlie and Alice from The Vels band we then got Carl Hinds (later he went on to start Dandelion) on Lead and the line up with Carl was the best, that was the definitive SheMales line up however the line up with Piss was the most interesting

Its actually a little known fact that She Males was a heavy Acid/Shrooms band on top of the Heroin and Booze lol The pic of me with red hair and red white stripe pants was at the Troc first time opening up for Anvil Bitch and Motorhead. I had taken 4 hits of some Mind blowing pink window pane. I spent the whole gig staring at our own light show and rolling around on stage making David Yow hairball noises! I shaved off my eyebrows right before the show like Bob Geldof in the Wall! The metal kids loved it they didn’t know what to think – John Gilmour
Thanks for the tape Jackie  and the additional tracks  Rennie Resmini

Demo Tape

01 – Love Crawl
02 – Dr Octopus
03 – Metal

Studio 4 Tracks

01 – Blind Drunk
02 – Last Call
03 – Metal
04 – Miss Nude New York
05 – Love Crawl
06 – Monica

The Farm Tapes Tracks

01 – Yin Yang Machine Gun
02 – Miss Nude New York
03 – Bruised
04 – Last Call
05 – Dr Octopus
07 – Tarot Song

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Info about the Studio 14 and Farm Tape:

ok so these two tapes are like…. a pretty clear documentation of the band(i should prob just say me, lol) imploding.
So you notice that the Studio 4 demos have no vocals, but man the tracks sound awesome, and believe me they would have been great songs, lyrics were killer, vocal arrangements awesome. Problem was nobody and i mean NOBODY, could get me to stand up straight in the studio long enough to actually cut the great vocal tracks in my head, that occasionally made their way into a microphone at a live show between psychotic babbling incoherent mumbling and incessant demands for more whiskey on stage. This was when Chris Schwartz was busting his ass to get us signed. The guys at Studio 4 believed in us too and were their usual fucking wizard selves!
Anyway….. We(by we of course I mean I) couldn’t complete the demo.
Wiser minds decided the band(i mean me) basically needed a time out.
The band (me) needed to go away from all the distractions that the streets of (north) Philly had to offer. We(I) needed to clean up and refocus. So our lighting guy Fran’s Family had a Cabin in the woods outside of Puxatawny PA.
Chris Schwartz and Sean Tierney set us up with a 16 track studio and left us there in the middle of the Blair Witch Project to get our(my) shit together. So the results should be the farm tape.
Unfortunately the opposite of what everyone intended actually happened!
See by the time we(i mean me) got out to the farm we(i) had burned most of my bridges, all the bartenders in the few bars i wasn’t kicked out of actually began to want me to pay for my drinks and my drug dealers were done fronting me….. so things were looking a bleak on the old free ride horizon
……. well,
so anyway by the time we got to the farm we (the royal we meaning me of course) were pretty much persona non grata literally everywhere.
But the funny thing is when we(I) went to the farm to get our(my) shit together people became like “hey im kinda proud of them, they (Gilmour) is trying to get their (really just his) shit together, i think ill bring him a little something something” but EVERYBODY thought that way! So everybody that visited us(me) came out stocked up. Oh baby the rainy season had returned at last!!!
I wound up with more dope, acid and booze out there then i could ever have gotten my grubby little hands on at home.
Alls i really remember is tripping face everyday, snorting dope off a female friends belly, playing dungeons and dragons and shooting guns drunk.
Needless to say, the plan was sound. The execution….. not so much.
Fuck it what can i say?
I was just a dumb kid.
Paraphrase Lin Manual-Miranda….. I didn’t know how to say no to it all.
Anyway that’s my point of view.
You can ask Michael Mosley Lindsey Williams Butler Jon Graf et al.
Maybe they remember different
– John Gilmour (Thanks for all the background John)

Deadspot

Deadspot were in my opinion the best of the Philly Metal crossover bands. They definitely had a more metalish sound but retained punk/hardcore ethos. For the demo tape the bass player was Richard Birch who was also the guitarist for Decontrol. One of the Deadspot songs from their tape was on the Philly comp: Disc Pan Hands. Deadspot’s line up featured Larry Horn (listed as The Kid) on drums, Mike Illes on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Paul Juestrich on lead guitar and Larry Leifheit on bass. Besides the Demo Tape I have included their first album Adios Dude and the 7 inch Built-In Pain.
Their 2nd album Built in Pain LP is still available to buy.
I’ve also included a couple of videos I put up on YouTube from Lenny Crunch (RIP) & flyers.

Thanks for the tape files Brett Noise Addiction II

Demo Tape

01 – Another Day
02 – Deadspot
03 – Friday Night in Hell
04 – Powertool
05 – Suicide City
06 – Tonite
07 – Here and Now
08 – Hollywood
09 – Paris is Burning

Adios Dude LP

A1 – Addiction
A2 – Right Through You
A3 – Inside
A4 – Deadspot
A5 – Friday Night in Hell
B1 – This Means War
B2 – Powertool
B3 – Another Day
B4 – My Death
B5 – Jesus is My Best Friend

Built-In Pain 7″

A1 – Razors
A2 – T.V. Eye
B1 – Built in Pain

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Video

Deadspot from JC Dobbs

Deadspot @ Grendel’s Lair 10/20/85

Anthrophobia Early Demos and Founding Fathers (Reunion CD)

Anthrophobia has been around a long time with many lineup and a few location changes the one constant member is singer Frank Phobia. These demos and rehearsal represent the beginnings of that band in Reading Pennsylvania through the Philly years. The Rehearsal  and  first Demo were recorded during 1985 in Reading. Soon after that Frank moved to Philadelphia and put together a new line up and recorded a few more demos and a track on Discpan Hands / A Philadelphia Compilation The 1988 demo is still generally Punk based but has a definite metal edge to it. The 1992 demo was recorded when Grunge was king and that style is reflected there. There is the added benefit of Suzi Gardner from L7 on backing vocals.  A couple of these songs were released on a 7″ single. In 2014 the original members of the band reformed as The Anthrophobia Founding Fathers. They played a few reunion shows and released a cd Endgame, I also included pictures at the bottom of this post form the Founding Fathers  show I went to at Young Ones Records in Kutztown. In between and since Anthrophobia has released a lot of great albums you can listen or better yet buy them at their bandcamp page. They have a new EP called Altered States coming out August 14th 2020.

Thanks for sending me the demos Brett Noise Addiction II

1985 Rehearsal

01 Anthrophobia
02 Rude Awakening
03 Don’t Misunderstand Me
04 title unknown
05 I’m Bored
06 The Wall
07 Hurry Up and Wait
08 title unknown
09 Black & Blue Innocence
10 Flashbacks
11 Dazed and Confused
12 Endangered Minorities
13 title unknown
14 Good For Nothing
15 Look Away
16 Backward Ass Country Fuck
17 Endangered Minorities
18 Dionysion (Ruin)

November 1985 Demo

01 Rude Awakening
02 Dazed And Confused
03 Backward Ass Country Fuck
04 Good For Nothing
05 Flashbacks
06 Look Away
07 Anthrophobia

1987? Demo

01-RudeAwakening
02-EndangerTheMinorities
03-TheWall

1988 Demo

01. Crack In The Ceiling
02. Objects In Mirrors
03. Time
04. War At Home
05. Too Much Of A Good Thing

1992 Secret Sauce Demo

01. Glue
02. Candy Coated Voodoo
03. Static
04. Medusa
05. Auf Wiedersehen [Cheap Trick]
06. Resist & Change

The Anthrophobia Founding Fathers – Endgame CD

01 Subtle Collapse
02 Right This Minute
03 Bully
04 Silent Treatment
05 High Strung
06 Third Time Around
07 Skin And Bones
08 Father’s Theme
09 Endgame
10 Back-Up Plan
11 Slow Motion
12 Crash And Burn
13 Baby, Let’s Go Fress

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Video of The Anthrophobia Founding Fathers from Young Ones Records in Kutztown

Here are some Flyers and Pictures from the Young Ones show.

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