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Oct 12, 2011 · Before there was punk, the Pistols or Pere Ubu, there was Rocket From The Tombs. Fronted by Ubu’s David Thomas and also featuring the late, great Peter Laughner on guitar, the group formed in 1974, played a few gigs and recorded some demos, which were later collected into the album The Day The Earth Met Rocket From The Tombs, concurrently reissued by Fire.
Rocket from the Tombs (or RFTT) is an American rock band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The band featured David Thomas and was reconstituted several times with various line-ups starting in 2003. Heralded as an important protopunk group, they were little known during the band's original lifetime ...
Aug 17, 2011 · 4.0 out of 5 stars Proto-Punk From Cleveland: Rocket From The Tombs' "I Sell Soul" from Barfly Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2011 So 1974-1975's Rocket From the Tombs released their first studio album in 2011.
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Oct 11, 2011 · Barfly by Rocket from the Tombs released in 2011. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Sep 12, 2011 · The legendary Rocket From The Tombs, born in 1974, flamed out in 1975, have finally recorded a studio album, delivering “Barfly,” and closing the circle on an incredible journey. The received wisdom (at least in America) goes that punk rock was invented in New York by the Ramones, who reconfigured Midwestern hard groove rock and 60s garage ...
Sep 12, 2011 · Rocket from the Tombs became a legend among scholars of punk history (especially after Laughner died in 1977), though hardly anyone knew what they actually sounded like until an archival collection of live recordings and rehearsal tapes, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from The Tombs, was released in 2002. Full Review >>
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Oct 11, 2011 · Barfly. In 2003, the epochal proto-punk band Rocket From The Tombs reformed and laid down Rocket Redux, an album comprising proper studio versions of the group’s widely bootlegged 1974-75 ...
