I don't know much about this band, but I do know its a god-damned miracle that I didn't wear this tape out after playing it 1000 times in my Toyota van (RIP). A perfect fucking AC/DC + Sabbath + region rock combination, with absolutely killer guitar, bass, and drum riffs. Un-fucking-touchable.
The Best Friends S/T tape (.zip file)
These guys were from Tulsa, and if memory serves I saw them twice in 2003: once with Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads at Krispy Pickles' warehouse on San Leandro in the Fruitvale, and once at Mission Records with Fleshies, Sexy, and Tommy Lasorda (thanks again to Smitty's excellent Bay Area Punk Database for helping me confirm this!).
Some weirdness on the track listing: the tape lists 10 songs, but there are at least 16 songs on here from the same band (including some dicking around synth sex jam shit at the end). But after that there are another eight tracks from a mystery band. I have no idea if these tracks are from some other, Best Friends affiliated Tulsa band --- maybe an early incarnation of Sunset Beach? --- or if they just dubbed over some random tape that happened to be lying around, and which has no connection at all to these dudes.
Anyway, this is one of my all time favorite tapes, definitely to be enjoyed at high volume.
