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13,024,045 Views - 2005 Youtube Video - "America The Beautiful" comes from February 1991's "Going Legit" album from Greenhouse Effect. This album of course today is an 8 song classic that has now become more like a difficult to find still in print relic of a cassette as well as the limited 'Black and white" Cd's that were printed up in March of 91'. "This is the album where we found drummer Martin Silva from San Pedro,..." says Clark Higgins. "I think it was either in the Recycler or 'Music Connection' or maybe Bam Magazine,..'can't remember",..but we jammed with him in like March 91'...to June... The 'Going Legit' album would contain some instantly recognizable melodic songs that have become G.e. trademark hallmarks among them 'Ben is dead', Star, Hey Negrita, Wilson Phillips, God's Joke, and Dead End Street. "Its an all star album" quips Higgins "Don't fer'get,..it also has the classic "22nd Street' on it too as well !!" #Nft #MusicNft #Node https://yieldnodes.com?a=z6KpwQRM3jyP2v8
"Going Legit" was an 8 song "condensed" version of a much longer concept album ,... THE ROCK OPERA WHITE SUBURBAN LIARS ,..which Hagins struggled to trim down the very long idea ,..and get the whole project under control,..
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From September of 1990 until March of 91', the band consisted of a two piece,..of course doing a classic interview with The Redondo Beach Hometown news and Easy Reader among others as they tried to explain their bizarre politics and new 'grungey' guitar dominated band's sound which at the time, they struggled for a genre label for,...of course also struggling to 'get' a record label of any kind to sign them and their great music as well.
"Those were tough times" says Hagins "We had just had a nasty parting of ways with Phil Keegan who to me is a soul brother in this business,...but at the time and moment,..way back then,..it just was 'the way it was',..I agonized for years,..I always wanted to jam with Flipper again,.. but it just never happened or materialized..." me and Ted played with drummer Mike Valencia from about Oct of 90 til January 91'...maybe..we wrote MORE songs 'in the garage' at 251 in Torrance in the meantime,.. I'm certain we did ",.
In the South Bay area of Redondo Beach, Torrance , and Lomita Calif,. "Going Legit' was greeted at local record shops with eager sales in a musical time when "80's heavy metal" music dominated but and was beginning to sound boring and new underground bands were creeping up and building followings,...Greenhouse Effect who had purchased ads in places like Flipside Magazine, Ben is Dead and Maximumrocknroll and Bam,..were one of those weird "Indie" garage bands of the under-world,.. they sent their tapes to labels like Sub Pop, Alternative Tenticles, and Sst Records along with trying to land a miracle deal at places like Geffen records and Capital EMI in Hollywood. "It was frustrating times,.. " says Higgins "because we knew we were the greatest band in the world ,..and there was just two of us - bassist Rick Carmody "Ted" and myself ,..I was playing both the drums and guitar in the studio but to play live we knew we needed a professional hard hitting drummer like me - but even better !,..that's when we discovered Marty Silva,..with him, we became L.A's most powerful three piece,..we were like the James Gang meets the Police meets 'A Noise Agency' meets Rush,..we developed awesome dynamics and it all came from Silva's big hitting of the skins AND WITH THOSE BIG ARMS ,. ,..he was so powerful, ..we fed off him,..he made us sound like a professional band that could immediately go play arenas,...we wanted to play the Great Western Forum ,..we were 'that' confident,..and we were 'that' good,...WE WERE INCREDIBLE LIVE - NO OTHER BANDS WANTED US TO OPEN FOR THEM ,..NO WAY !!" https://yieldnodes.com?a=z6KpwQRM3jyP2v8
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Now, today in 2004 - 2008 and 2009, ..I realize that I actually 'like' metal now again....I've discovered that punk people are not 'your friends' or the so called 'open-minded' types that they say they are'....Today,..I actually root for cheesy bands like Airbourne and Dragonforce,...I hope they rise up ...and destroy Kroq
now,..I fucking hate the Foo Fighters and shit like that ..and Coldplay ,... I think I see the Light now.."
..if nobody's gonna give me my chance,..then FUCK THEM !!"
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1992 Would see more recordings and more gigs,..Great Songs,..but the energy for G.e was dying ,..as Bassist Rick Carmody fled to join the South Bay Punk band ONE HANDED READERS as well as other bands ,..away from Hagins; "1992 ,..came and went fast,..it all ended real quick ,..just like that,." Says Hagins. "One day, I was on top of the World, the next thing I knew,.. it was like I was completely forgotten ,..almost like overnight ,.. and by 93',..it was like people forgot we ever existed at all ,.."
In 1993, Hagins attempted to "Join" a few new bands ,.. but the momentum was gone ,.. In 1994, He thought about maybe re putting together the "Early" version of G.e with guitarist Phil Keegan ,.. but it was clearly over,...
Years later,.. 1995 and 96' saw Hagins release 2 G.e Cd's ,..his vision for THE ROCK OPERA WHITE SUBURBAN LIARS ,..HAD come to be ; "The final Product was amazing ,.. I had to trim out like 50 songs but the final 16 all sounded brilliant ,.but by 1996, the whole scene had changed and stuff like Rap rock and really lame shit was emerging,. I tried still ,..but it was over,.. but then ,..this guy named Dave in Torrance CA ,.he told me about the power of the internet ,.." https://yieldnodes.com?a=z6KpwQRM3jyP2v8
Greenhouse Effect - America The Beautiful Lyrics c1990
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