Neil Gust and Elliott Smith arrived in Portland, OR together in the summer of 1991 to start a new band with drummer/producer Tony Lash. Within a year of adding bassist Brandt Peterson on bass, they were playing across the West Coast and demoing dozens of songs for their first LP. Six of these tracks were self-released on the cassette titled “The Music of Heatmiser” which was sold at shows, local record shops, and handed out to record labels. The sound of the band changed a lot over 3 LP’s, but this is Heatmiser right out of the gate. New, energetic, excited, moving quickly through styles, totally broke and making it work in whatever way possible. It’s guitar rock, full-blast, through 100 watt Marshall half stacks, when grunge was ascendant in the Pacific Northwest and the Portland scene was exploding. Fast, tight, loud, fun.
Side A : Lowlife ('92 cassette) / Bottle Rocket ('92 cassette) / Buick ('92 cassette) / Just A Little Prick ('92 cassette) / Dirt ('92 cassette) / Mightier Than You ('92 cassette) / Can't Be Touched (Cavity Search single) / Wake (Cavity Search single) / Stray (Cavity Search single)
Side B : Dead Air (Demo) / Sands Hotel (Demo) / Mock Up (Demo) / Cannibal (Demo) / Candyland (Demo) / Still (Demo)
Side C : Man Camp / Laying Low / Bloody Knuckles / Father Song / Glamourine / Meatline / Revolution
Side D : Blackout (Live on KBOO) / Bottle Rocket (Live on KBOO) / Dirt (Live on KBOO) / Still (Live on KBOO) / Candyland (Live on KBOO) / Don't Look Down (Live on KBOO) / Lowlife (Live on KBOO)
