Testors featuring Sonny Vincent - Complete Recordings 1976-1979

How the Christ could it have taken so long for the world to get on board with the Testors?

I've listened to the 2003 Swami release of "Complete Recordings 1976-1979" so much over the past 17 years, and I don't get it. I don't get how someone, anyone, couldn't have heard the demo from 1979, heard them live, and thought, "Yeah, I could sell this to Alice Cooper fans." Or Thin Lizzy fans. Or KISS fans. I just don't get it.

Now, I love the Dead Boys and Ramones and Dictators and Cramps and all the various bands that made up that early New York City scene. But I keep coming back to these recordings. It's not that the others are overplayed to me; it's just the mystery of a band this good, this tight, only getting one self-released record out during their life span. I could see it for any number of bands that weren't from a big rock town. Yet the Testors arguably played in the big rock town during their lifespan, and the classic "Together b/w Time Is Mine" single was all that came out until Incognito released a pair of 10"s in 1995.

I've purposely downgraded the bitrate on this to 128kbps as encouragement to buy this from Sonny's Bandcamp page. Hell, feel free to wait until Friday, when all the $$$ goes directly to him. If I hadn't owned this for so long, I'd almost certainly drop the $14 to snag this.

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