Noise 'R Us
CBGBs, NYC, NY USA
March 26, 1981

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I think this is a fairly rare recording of Percy Jones and a pretty rockin set too. Noise 'R Us eventually became Paranoise (I think they were threatened with a lawsuit by Toys 'R Us) which released 2 records. They both featured Percy and Anthony Jackson on bass and some well known horn players. Don Cherry played on a couple of tracks on the first CD (Constant Fear). The guitarist of the band was Jim Matus, who now plays a lot of Middle-Eastern/south Asian influenced music with his group Mawaal, they put out a CD recently which features Percy on a couple of tracks, one of them featuring vocals by Nusrat. I'm not sure of the complete lineup on this recording:
guitar - Jim Matus
vocals - Micky Ortiz
drums - Lloyd Fonoroff
fretless bass - Percy Jones
horns - unknown


01 Armageddon (W. Shorter)
02 Carburetor
03 I Gotta Fire
04 Piranha Love
05 Constant Fear
06 The Plague
07 Roll Groover
08 Cut it Out

TT= 42:33

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