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A Turn... And A Halt (Complete Edition) (CD)

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click for larger image		 Comprehensive collection of A Turn... And A Halt tracks from the 1st and 2nd Editions, remastered on CD.
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Tracks
  1. Intro (Turn/Halt, 1st Ed.)
  2. New House
  3. Marta Rules
  4. Interlude (New House)
  5. Phuong Nam's
  6. I Am A Fireman
  7. Let's Vomit
  8. Lump O' Luv
  9. Chicken Pox Blues (Live)
  10. Brett Has The Chicken Pox (Live)
  11. Baseball Hotdogs (New Wave Version)
  12. Dead Tomato (1986)
  13. Intro (Turn/Halt, 2nd Ed.)
The Blanks: Kar, Ran, and Spike
Guests: Abercrombie, Mrs. Cecil, Christopher Araha Arohadej, Kone, and Mr. Ed

Tracks 1-10 released on A Turn... And A Halt (1st Edition) (1985). Tracks 2-8, 11-13 released on A Turn... And A Halt (2nd Edition) (1986).

Tracks 1 & 13 recorded at Original Studios, Houston, Texas. Additional production on track 13 at Wolfgang-Sly Studios, Houston, Texas. Tracks 2-6 released on New House (EP) (1985). Tracks 2-7, & 12 recorded at Drum Room Studios, Houston, Texas. Track 8 from 10 Minute Tape at Chris's (1984), recorded at Chris's, Houston, Texas. Tracks 9 & 10 from Live At Bibby's Show Palace (1984), recorded at Bibby's Show Palace, Houston, Texas. Track 11 from Blanks IV – Trashrock Christmas With The Blanks (1983), recorded at Old House Studios, Houston, Texas.

Produced by The Blanks. All songs written by The Blanks. Reissue mastered by Kar at Lopwood Studios, Cypress, Texas. Reissue package design by Kar, leveraging original A Turn... And A Halt (1st Edition) art and packaging by Kar.
©1983-1986 The Blanks. Compilation ©2008 The Blanks.

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This release combines all The Blanks tracks from the two original, cassette editions of A Turn... And A Halt. In the mid-1980's, these were some of our most popular tracks. A Turn... And A Halt was originally designed to give fans a nice collection as we rode off into the musical sunset. We were continually breaking up around that time and had no plans to continue.

With this collection, fans have the full New House EP as it was released (tracks 2-6 on this CD) – by far, our most popular release up to that point. And you get “Let's Vomit”, our break-through punk-inspired single – and our first Blanks collaboration with Mr. Ed.

Some hardcore fans will notice a couple of missing tracks. The original 2nd Edition had a couple of songs from other Blanks Enterprise efforts – a Ran solo song and a Revelations song. Each of us was involved in a variety of related music activity around the time; for some reason, I put a couple of these songs on the 2nd Edition cassette. It really made no sense then and it definitely makes no sense now.

I hope you enjoy this release. It's been long fabled and long hailed. Thank goodness we didn't “halt” as a band... but kept rockin' the world.

– Kar

©1998-2008 The Blanks