From Sub Pop #2, 1986
“Like the Modern Lovers and the late Marine Girls, Beat Happening is a positive force; sincere and willing to take risks, they show that it’s just as radical to openly like someone as it is to brutalize and degrade through cheap sensationalism. Great record!”
And speaking of beards, come to the screening of the “Have You Ever Had A Beard?” (Has Calvin ever had a beard?)
“Youth” originally appeared on Beat Happening’s second cassette release Three Tea Breakfast, which was recorded in an abandoned apartment building in the Nakameguro neighborhood in Tokyo where the band stayed during a two-month sojourn in 1984. In an interview for Love Rock Revolution, Bret Lunsford remembers that “We brought Calvin’s little Fender Amp, just a tiny one, and one or two guitars; probably an acoustic and then the Silvertone. And we bought a match pair of recording devices that could serve as guitar amps, or vocal amps. They were double decks, so we could record on them and that’s how we recorded Three Tea Breakfast over there. They were basically boomboxes with inputs and double decks.”
| — | The first mention of Beat Happening in Seattle music monthly The Rocket, found in an uncredited column titled “Eight Hot Ones.” |
