Liquid Diamonds

Liquid Diamonds

Aw Maw / Long Ago

Hozac

***As time passes, the legitimacy of SONNY VINCENT’s repertoire just grows stronger and more impressive with each new unearthed segment of his seminal years. As you will undoubtedly recall, the issue of the debut 7" from FURY as the first release in the HoZac Archival series in late 2012 was just the starting point, as here we have uncovered an even lesser-known band during those uncategorizable early/mid ‘70s years when so many styles of "underground rock" were interweaving. Sonny's incredible recollection of these early years in his career are mind blowing, and the fact that he's been able to hold onto so many scraps of completely unknown and sorely unexposed NYC punk history in the luggage trunks he's moved back & forth across the Atlantic several times since the 1970s, is even more staggering. If you remember from the FURY release, Sonny Vincent's first band in NYC was DISTANCE in 1971, the band that played shows with Suicide's earliest incarnation, and during the era when that band coined the term "punk" in relation to a style of music for the first time anywhere. So as were the ways of those times, Vincent formed band after band trying to find something that worked, and repeatedly took stabs at recording and performing live in the pre-CBGB/Ramones era, but sadly it seemed, no one was listening. Flash forward to 1973 and Sonny's latest active band on the town is known as LIQUID DIAMONDS, an even rawer 3-piece than FURY, this band wasn't as...