KNICKERS - Drums of Love

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Unplayed stock of 1978 release originally sold only through an ad in the  back of Trouser Press.

"In 1975, just as things were kicking off on the Bowery, a New York band called Knickers came and went. They rehearsed for a year, played exactly one public performance (Mothers, opening for the Fast) and later released this posthumous 45...

..Originally formed by Trouser Press staffer Jim Green (bass) and record store clerk Steve Gallow (vocals), the band eventually came to include Trouser Press publisher Ira Robbins (guitar); a future ex-husband of actress Kathleen Turner, Jay Weiss (bass); painter and memoirist Duncan Hannah (drums); future Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri; rock photographer Linda Danna (backing vocals); and drummer Harry D’Antoni, later of the Sic F*cks. Only some of them are on this single, which was recorded in the Long Island bedroom of Milk ‘n’ Cookies leader Ian North.

Before power pop was really a thing, Knickers were Anglofied dandies, playing melodic songs with rudimentary fuzz power: loud-fast versions of songs like “I Think We’re Alone Now,” the Small Faces' “Sha La La Lee” and the Hollies' “Look Through Any Window.” In March 1979, long after the band ceased to exist, this single of two Gallow/Robbins originals was released on the first Reckless Records (the Chicago and London shops of that name came later)."