Government War Plans is a collection of Negative FX demos recording at pratices and a few house party shows in 1982. Its really raw and the recording on some tracks is not that great. Theres actually a spot in one song where someone must have recorded over the original tape because another song cuts in for a few seconds. All that being said… its worth checking out.
The LP version was released by Distortion Records which I think is/was run by Dave Brown who played drums for NFX. Then I believe it was licensed out to Moulty Records who put out the CD version.
Usually I prefer to get the LP version of something (unless I’m going to get both), but with this if you’re only getting one I recomend getting the CD. It has an extra track on it thats 6 minutes of assorted clips of Choke from his radio show on Emerson College radio. Some live comercials, song talk ups and concert anouncements including ‘the official debut of Negative FX’ and an anouncement about the break up of Negative FX.
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I did the artwork for these :)
Also – Dave Brown runs Moulty Records as well as Distortions. There’s a 7″ version where one of the songs cuts into a couple seconds of SSD, which was sort of fixed on the LP version (which is that drop out that’s mentioned above) but is totally hilarious… one second you’re listening to NFX and then a second later you get a short “sampling” of How Much Art off the SSD demo.
I didnt know that Dave ran both, thanks for the info. Cool that you did the artwork (I did the artwork for the Slapshot ‘Tear it Down’ record, but they changed it a little). I like the CD with Regan better than the LP, but they are both really nice and great to listen to!