I'm fairly certain I saw Servotron once, although the particulars escape me somewhat. I know this because the timeline for seeing them play Reptilian Records on a Sunday afternoon lines up. Any AmRep band on tour in the late 90s at least stopped in to say hi to Chris X. And if you were in or around town on Sunday, you probably played a free gig at 5pm in the back of the store, after Chris and Johnny Riggs and Gene had moved the videos and iguana out of the way. This was the first time I'd seen anything we'd now describe as synth-punk, although I'm sure my only frame of reference was Devo.
A bunch of college aged kids, leaning into kayfabe, dressed up like cyborgs, making punk rock about robot revolution is about as peak 90s as it can get. Throw in some cover art by Shag, and how pissed off the audience would get over a pro-robot message, and you have a package that's is sadly lacking these days. How stoked would you be where you can afford to get angry over such a silly thing? It'd mean life was pretty good, right? Bring back something like this as the soundtrack to freeing yourself from organic tyranny.
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Wow. Thanks! i have the 'no room for humans' disc - always curious what their other output was like.
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