Orange County 1981 The Lost Debut Album - LP - Red with Black Splatter
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09/05/2025
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Color: Red / Black Splatter.
Michael Ubaldini's teenage band The Earwigs recorded an album and single in 1981. A lone 45 RPM single was released from those sessions in January 1982. "She's So Naive'/'Here Come The Earwigs'. The album never was released as the label who was to release it closed shop. This most sought after & mysterious album of it's era has been collecting dust on reel to reels - until now!
It was mastered and pressed at the legendary Gold Star recording Studios in Hollywood. Home of Eddie Cochran -The Beach Boys & Phil Spector's 'Wall of sound 'which was right up The Earwigs alley. The single was played all over Southern Cal Radio by cutting edge punk rock and new music record spinners on Rodney Bingenheimers 'Rodney On The Roq' show & Sue Minks KNAC 'New music show'. Sue and Rodney worked The Earwigs into the rotation on their shows by playing cassette tapes of the bands unreleased album and single. That is how a rock n roll band with no album pressed became one of the most influential bands on the Orange County & LA county and the first ones mixing a harder raw garage rock n roll w/power pop playing the same circuit as The Pandoras & Social Distortion. Strangely The Earwigs have a modern young cult following to this day- the debut album that never saw the light of day & sat on 'analogue reels' for 45 years. Sixteen blistering tracks that pre-dated Wild Billy Childish's The Milkshakes and also preceded later on bands The Strokes, Vines, and The Strypes by decades .