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LIGHTS OUT
Lights Out (limited 12" + booklet)
Albina Music Trust US
Cat: AMT 005. Rel: 29 Aug 22
Funk/Rare Groove
| Side 1 - Track 1. Tonight |
| Side 1 - Track 2. Take It |
| Side 2 - Track 1. Surrender Your Love |
| Side 2 - Track 2. Hey Girl |
A recreational offshoot of the band Pleasure, Portland's Lights Out were led by their trumpeter Tonmy Collins as a way of staying musically exercised, pushing the envelope and getting a few local bookings on the side when Pleasure weren't on the road. Their sound started out as jazz fusion but they soon developed into a monstrously funky synth/-led funk rollercoaster. as vocalist Andy Stokes and guitarist Greg "Gee Mack" Dalton fronted the band.
The four tracks here were recorded as a demo for Solar Records in 1982 at Wave Sound Studios - a facility more used to housing punk acts such as The Wipers and The Rats - but the label 'fumbled' it and the band fellow apart soon after. Some 40 years on, the likes of 'Surrender Your Love' and 'Tonight' still sound fresh as the proverbial daisy, and likely to lure feet onto the dancefloor.