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Where's The Phone?

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Classic EP. Only surviving recording from the “lost albums” era. Remastered and reissued on Blanks '84 CD.

Release Info
Cover Art
Band Memoirs

Release Info

Tracks

Where's The Phone?
Where's The Phone? II
Phone The Dead

The Blanks: Kar, Ran, and Spike
Guest: Abercrombie

Recorded live to two-track at Old House Studios, Houston, TX. Produced by The Blanks.
©1984 The Blanks.

1984: First issue, cassette EP, Blanks Enterprises
2008: Remastered and reissued on Blanks '84 CD.

Cover Art

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Blanks '84 CD cover

Blanks '84 CD liner notes

Blanks '84 CD label

Band Memoirs

By 1984, Ran, Spike, and I had officially settled in as the go-forward line-up of The Blanks. Where's the Phone? is unique in that it's the only surviving album of the first “Tri Plug Theory” era recordings. This was recorded after the now famous lost recordings American Dream and Doom's Day Celebration. In fact, this album was also lost for a time. We later found the master, though it was in need of serious repair. But thankfully we found it and restored it.

I remember thinking the title track's lyrics were pretty rebellious. Also, “Phone the Dead” holds up as a rockin' tune.

– Kar