I don't know much about (the?) Trudie Plungers. I believe they were Sweettooth on guitar and vocals, Buddha on bass, and Ben Ditch on drums (I could be wrong, though). In any case, I never saw the band, and I don't think they ever released anything official, but my understanding is that this tape is the recording of their unreleased, and only LP.
Trudie Plungers "Unreleased LP" (.zip download)
I first heard this tape in Jordan's car, and then bugged Sweettooth for a copy until he finally gave me a dub with some other rad stuff on it. No album title, no art, no track listings, no nada, just a spraypainted green cassette. This record is a fukking killer though, and I still can't believe that this band wasn't huge. The record has a Jawbreaker/Leatherface/Husker Du sort of vibe--catchy riffs with a buzzsaw guitar tone--but definitely has its own voice and feel to it.
I was briefly in a band with 'tooth himself (were we called Troubled Sleep?), and we covered the song which is the clear summer banger on this tape (aka "fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you").
For the curious, the band name is a reference to some pretty inside baseball shit about early LA punk history. It's worth a read!
Is this Naters??? I was looking around the internet for the 976 tape, which is how I got there, but then there's amazing stuff like this with 'Tooth and Ben, that I didn't know existed, and I figured it was someone I must know, then with the "moved to NY in 2003", Naters is my guess. Either way, thank you for posting all this stuff! I haven't thought of the Duckbutters in forever.
ReplyDeleteNo, this is Ryan from the Blottos/Civil Dysentery and various other bands. I know Naters, though.
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