RPA - “Shoot The Pope” 7”
(Self released - RPA-0001)
1982
• I love a good mystery. Especially one as distorted as this guitar tone. Not sure how they achieved it but I’m sure glad they did. Seemed like some kind of heavy metal amp on 11 with a fully engaged wah pedal mixed in maybe? Some real Jimi shit. I would have written the band and asked them but finding any info besides the member names on the back cover was impossible. I didn't have a Seattle phone book, nor was I savvy enough to try that route at the time when I found this record. Seattle was pretty isolated scene too and I didn’t know anyone there so I couldn’t even “ask a punk” as they say.
• For a long time, the big question mark on this record was the release date. We all knew it was somewhere between ’81 and ’84. The sleeve offers no hope of info. Not even carbon dating this grimy color xerox could pinpoint a year. So we lived in darkness until around 2009 when, and bless them for this, the KBDRecords blog posted RPA up for the world to debate over only to have 80’s Seattle frat row resident Peter Davis pipe in with this: “This came out in the summer of 1982–late summer. Band played my going away party September of that year at a sorority house right next door to the one where Ted Bundy did some of his damage.” [More on Teddy Bundy soon] And then a couple years later Solger’s Kyle Nixon chimed in with some back up. “Solger was my band, and Doug Rockness was our bass player before starting RPA. I spent a lot of time with Doug before he died in 2006. And from what I recall – 1982 would have been the most likely year for this record to be recorded or released. I was still hanging out with Doug through most of 1981 and I know RPA wasn’t really that active yet.” I’m calling it officially 1982 as the release year. Thanks to all involved for shedding some light for this very novice gumshoe.
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Bad Attitude
D: Bill Cummings
1993
• A narcotics officer with a tragically itchy trigger finger accidentally shoots an innocent bystander and gets himself demoted. Hoping to redeem himself, he embarks upon a one-man crusade to bring drug kingpin to justice aided by a ghetto preacher and a street-smart mystery woman.
#moviesareoktoo #badattitude #billcummings #RPA #shootthepope #bonecrusher
