Artist description Introduction: Sifting through punk rock in the mid to late 1980’s is like listening to a desperate last scream against growing old itself. With that, it is also the final shout before the non-conformist was invariably sold out by Moloch-marketing. It’s about before the internet. It’s about before MTV programmed popular music. It’s just before culture became the “marketing”. The majority of these recordings were found on an old tape called “All You Kids Do is Destroy” which replicated itself around upstate New York’s college campuses in the 1990’s. Not much is known about who made the tape, except that they gave 150 percent and required nothing in return. Alamogordo is believed to hail from Madison NJ, in 1984 or 1986. It seems to be an amalgamation of various people who stopped by the basement of someone documented on the tape as “Johnny Spitfire”, who functioned as the guitarist as well as house producer. It is true NJ Basement Punk Rock in the finest sense. It is unclear if the people in the band ever continued onto college or even graduated high school. Next to nothing is known about their live performances. There is no visual documentation. They are rumored to have played with stolen equipment only. Various vocalists would sit in on sessions which only supported their prime campaign of anti-rockstardom. The only thing that remained consistent was the level of frustration and angst embedded in all the songs. These are not stupid teen-agers, but teen-agers in a stupid world. Alamogordo reminds us that there will always be angst, and there will always be a remedy for that angst in spontaneous song. Peace, X.F. Pine

Group Members Alamogordo Line-up (1985-1987) Johnny Spitfire – Guitar – Producing Tom Black – Drums Jimmy Rocket – Drums – Vocals Andrew Spider – Bass Guest Vocalists: Tom Brown, Marc Blade, Robert Spellman, Eric Chaos, Edward Bomb

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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