Sold Date: June 4, 2020
Start Date: December 2, 2019
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This listing is for a new, autographed Mau Maus "Scorched Earth Policies: Then & Now" LP (with a full color insert sleeve with the band's bio), CD (with a 20 page full color booklet detailing the lurid history of the most notorious punk band to come out of Los Angeles in the 1970's) and 3 gig fliers from the band's heyday (the fliers are reproductions from the collection of lead vocalist Rick Wilder). This album features both vintage recordings from 1981 (produced by The Doors' Robby Krieger) and new recordings (produced by Geza X) of their vintage songs by the 1981 line up: Rick Wilder (Berlin Brats), Scott "Chopper" Franklin (The Cramps, Heathen Apostles), Mike Livingston (The Livingstons) and Paul "Mars" Black (The Joneses, LA Guns).
Here's the Mau Maus bio from themaumaus.com: Everybody knows the Mau Maus. Whether it's some story of a chaotic back-alley Hollywood show, or dark tales of crimes real or imagined, the Los Angeles punk scene wouldn't have been the same without Rick Wilder and the nefarious group. Reveled and reviled, taking the raw energy of Iggy and the Stooges and infusing an unhealthy dose of James Brown jive, the original Mau Maus (Wilder, Greg Salva, Rod Donahue & Earl Washington) was forged at the original punk rock haven the Masque and sprang upon the emerging Hollywood scene in 1978. The 1981 line up was Wilder, Michael Livingston, Scott "Chopper" Franklin and Paul "Black" Mars, and the Mau Maus proceeded to record the incendiary Robby Krieger-produced Mad Dog Studio sessions and 2 songs for Hell Comes To Your House Vol. 2. A scene-stealing performance in the OJ Simpson detective movie "Cocaine and Blue Eyes" accented this "Joyride to the End of the World"?
The violence, the women, and yes, the drugs, might have seemed to get in the way of commercial success, but talent is talent and songs are songs, and upon listening to this record one realizes that with punk rock still in its infancy, here was a band that was already mixing a current fresh sound with elements of American roots music, something the Kinks, the Stones and the Animals managed to do in the 1960's.
As the 20th century wound down, Wilder moved to New York City, Franklin joined The Cramps, Mars toured the world as a front man for LA Guns and Livingston formed... the Livingstons. But now the quartet has recorded 8 more songs from their scorching set (with production help from Geza X, a punk rock legend in his own right) to add to the 6 Robbie Krieger-produced tunes from 1983, and have toured with some more of those infamous performances (no one called the cops). Love 'em or hate 'em, they wouldn't have it any other way.