Drive Like Jehu

Drive Like Jehu

Bullet Train To Vegas

Merge

***DRIVE LIKE JEHU's sole 7-inch “Bullet Train to Vegas” b/w “Hand Over Fist” back in print. Originally released in 1992, its songs display a harnessing of powers first introduced on their self-titled record from the previous year and later fully realized on their final album, 1994’s Yank Crime. While recording “Bullet Train to Vegas” on the UCSD campus (drummer/producer MARK TROMBINO “borrowed” mics and cables from the theatre department next door), guitarist JOHN REIS felt the urge to pick up a trash can and chuck it across the room. It’s the crash that you hear just as Trombino and bassist MIKE KENNEDY engage, and you may feel a similar urge to do the same while listening to its unrelenting rhythms. “Hand Over Fist” slows things down slightly but by no means muffles the quartet’s ferocity or RICK FROBERG's trademark howl.

Drive Like Jehu

Yank Crime

Swami

***A reissue of the fan-favorite Yank Crime album originally released in 1994 on Interscope from San Diego rock-action heroes DRIVE LIKE JEHU. Includes all the tracks from the original release, along with three bonus tracks—"Bullet Train to Vegas" and "Hand Over Fist" from the out-of-print Merge single, and the original version of "Sinews" from the Head Start to Purgatory compilation.