Mama Was A Schitzo, Daddy Was A Vegetable Man (1975)

by Mike Rep and the Quotas

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If you’ve been diligently picking up all the sacred pieces of the massive midwestern archeological dig that is the area surrounding the Columbus/Harrisburg, Ohio, then there’s no doubt you’ve become not just familiar with, but totally enamored with Mike Rep and the Quotas. One of just a handful of the legendary home-recorded icons of midwestern proto punk, Rep and company (Tommy Jay, Nudge Squidfish) burst onto the scene with their monster debut 7″ for the incredible “Rocket To Nowhere” on Moxie Records in 1978, yet this important piece of the puzzle was recorded back even a few years before punk’s “first historical figures” had released their maiden touchstones, in the year of infinite possibilities, 1975. Clearly something was afoot in early 70s Ohio. Was it all those VU shows at La Cave finally taking root? Or is it just more evident that the realization that the Midwest, (and namely OH) was the Mesopotamia of US punk, as evidenced by it’s pre-historic punk credentials that seem to be constantly unfolding?

Any way you slice it, Mike Rep was there, and this Archival 7″ featuring two tracks that fit into the earliest era of Rep’s canon, came to the surface a few years back on a quickly out-of-print import single, to which we are remedying this month, and making available for your agonizing ear holes once again. As far as midwest punk legends go, Rep is one of the most often overlooked, but one whose influence and involvement span across decades of underground classics, so don’t be content with an existence unfulfilled and delve into the sickening and refreshing world of the Columbus/Harrisburg underground, and the brilliant savagery screaming out of these grooves. -VictimofTime.com

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released June 1, 2014

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