EBENEZER AND THE BLUDGEONS -

EBENEZER AND THE BLUDGEONS - “Peer Pressure” 7”
(Primal Stomp - BLUDG.001)
1978

• "Ebenezer And The Bludgeons led a short but interesting career that included playing local film director John Water’s birthday party, to having Washington DC punk legends Bad Brains (in their first ever show) opening for them. “They weren’t very good," explains Bludgeons guitarist Paul Landsman. “They got better.”" -Tim Scott
• “There was a very small local “scene” but we felt like outsiders. Some of these people STILL hate us! There we guys 10-years older than us coming from a kind of metal background, and the art school intellectuals as well as the John Waters contingent mixed with assorted commies, leftover hippies and freaks. There was one venue, The Marble Bar, that was our CBGB’s (it was a hellhole, the way all good rock clubs should be!) Every weirdo band played a show there at some point. People liked us, we had a following, but we never seemed to be the cool kids. We were always “the other” for some reason. I always thought we were the only true “punk” band because we got together from nothing just to do this kind of music. We didn’t jump on the bandwagon or morph from something else.” -Paul Landsman
• “I did everything backwards. I formed my first band in 1977 without knowing how to play a musical instrument or sing. I was inspired by punk and I responded to a musicians wanted ad in the local newspaper. They were looking for a punk band to back Edith Massey (of John Waters’ films). I told the guy that I had a band, but I wasn’t interested in backing anyone. The next day I placed an ad seeking musicians. Within a few weeks my first band, Ebenezer and the Bludgeons was born and the guy who placed the ad came to one of our rehearsals and wound up managing us. We played our first show in January 1978 at The Marble Bar in Baltimore. I gradually figured out how to play some guitar and write songs.” -Dennis Davison

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Desperate Living
D. John Waters
1977

• A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.
• In Italy, the film was heavily dubbed, censored, and retitled "Punk Story."

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