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Quick Fix No. 1 EP

by Quick Fix

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1.
Goodbye to the Dinosaurs 03:03
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2.
Transmission from Jack 00:31
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3.
Sacrilege Sister 03:31
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4.
Underground 02:16
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This first Quick Fix EP was made in something like 1997 or 98. It was never really "released", much like the 6-song EP that followed it that had different recordings of these songs and also three new songs. It was used as a demo to get gigs and perhaps label interest. It was only duplicated on cassette which seems so crazy to me now. At the time it was perfectly normal and routine to have your demo on cassette and MAIL that cassette to clubs like TT the Bears and the Middle East and then CALL those places during specified hours to try and get gigs. ON THE TELEPHONE. Can you imagine? It was only a few years later that people thankfully started using email to conduct that type of business. I can't stand talking on the phone.

Speaking of cassettes, this EP was recorded on a cassette four track, I think it was a Fostex, one of those with the orange window, the X-15. It was recorded by our brilliant friend John Dragonetti, then of Jack Drag, which was one of our favorite bands, and of course he then went on to form the Submarines with the amazing Blake Hazard, another friend of ours, and they got pretty huge there for a while, and it wasn't hard to see why.

Anyway John was one of the very people in existence that could record an EP of this quality on a 4-track cassette recorder. I'm still not sure how he managed it. I think we might have paid him 100 bucks. I don't even know for sure that we paid him at all. John is a great guy.

A few years after we made this, Rivers Cuomo called John asking if he'd play guitar for a show with Weezer, or a version of Weezer that wasn't exactly Weezer, just so Rivers could test out some new material, and John had some sort of conflict and recommended me instead, and so Rivers called me and I did the show, which was pretty amazing, thinking back on it. I don't think I even really thought much of it at the time, knowing me I probably just thought "this is the sort of thing that will be happening all the time from now on" and of course nothing like that ever happened again.

Anyway we were really proud of this back then, and I still am now. It's the same lineup as the 6-song, Shayne Phillips on drums and Drew Parsons on bass, and then that little interlude with us talking about the one-hitter was all John's creation.

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released March 22, 2021

Bass - Drew Parsons
Drums - Shayne Phillips
Guitar/Vocals - Jake Zavracky

Produced by John Dragonetti.

Written by Jake Zavracky and Quick Fix.

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