Laurie Jones, TV Toy, Ian Parker, Puzzle Monkey, Bob "Big Bud" Solberg, UXB(usa), Richard Bone, Shoot The Messenger and a variety of artists on our compilation albums.
Influences
Our staff enjoy most everything, however house favorites include: Oscar Wilde, To Kill A Mockingbird (book and movie), Andy Warhol, Jet, Sloan, Rolling Stones, Joel Plaskett Emergency, X, first Led Zep album, Garbage, salt water sailing, Dr. Martens, John Peel, the beach, London, Montreal, The Office (UK), Blur and Oasis, Abba, Stone Temple Pilots, Hollywood, gossip magazines, everything lo-fi, fresh vegtables, hiking, second hand clothes, clean, vintage guitars and amps, red wine, live radio DJ's, Warped Tour, 45rpm records and conspiracy theories.
Sounds Like
la-de-da"...drum roll..."can't you hear me knockin' "...guitar riff...bing,bang, boom
Reversing Recordings is located in Ellsworth, Maine with two closet size satellite offices in Seattle and London. Founder, Steve Peer is always seeking hip new talent from around the globe. Peer is an ally of the undervalued, and a card carrying member of the rock'n'roll underground.
The first single he purchased was "Bus Stop" by The Hollies and his Mom took him to his first rock concert.... Paul Revere and The Raiders. He was trained to be a marching band drummer, who was soon playing in a jazz quartet at the age of 10, only to abandoned that immediately upon seeing Mitch Mitchell with Hendrix and Keith Moon of The Who.
It was rock band after rock band, as Peer mimicked psychedelic rock, hard rock, Brit rock, glam rock, and prog rock. Once he started TV Toy with Rob Barth and Dreux Bassoul, the trio was pioneering original "new rock music", with elements of what the press called "punk" and "new wave" rock. Four (4) singles were released on Permanent Records and Peer also had been releasing 7" singles featuring Fast Car and The Tourists on his other label, Vacation Records.
During this period, Peer help construct the second and larger stage at CBGB's and got to be friends with members of Tuff Darts, Talking Heads,The Fleshtones, Orchestra Luna, The Feelies, Mod Fun, Blackfoot, The Bongos, WKGB, The Royals, Television, Ramones and Fingerprintz. He also had the opportunity to share the stage with Chuck Berry, John Cale, Dirty Looks, Jan Hammer, Southside Johnny and Bill Bruford.
In an effort to sign TV Toy to British management or an English record label, Peer inadvertently sold himself to Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe, who was putting together his new band, Red Noise. It would be a year of UK touring and recording before he returned to his band mates in New Jersey and released three more singles over the next two years. A worsening national economy, the state of popular music and the lingering of disco convinced the lads to break up the band.
Peer responded to the break-up by purchasing a four-track home recording studio and continued to record a variety of "second genertion" punk bands in his bedroom. This fresh batch of punk rockers were inspired by Black Flag, The Minutemen, and The Smiths. Peer was also staying busy by playing in a wedding band and other pick-up bands.
As Peer continued drumming, he was also becoming more committed to his day job, picking up graduate classes and transforming into a young adult. In a state of frustration, Peer moved to the coast of Maine and was instantly recruited by Custom Made Country. Urban legend has it that Peer was one of the architects of punk rock, due to his being in both New York City and London during the seminals days of this musical revolution, however this is not the case. Peer was dressing like a girl at the time, and has never had a piercing and only recently discovered the value of black clothing. Although he may not have hung out with The Clash or The Stranglers, Peer did combine his punk and new wave sensibilities with the very traditional country and western sound of his new band, Custom Made Country, and did spawn one of the first "cow punk" bands in America. Since the late '80's Peer's country punk has been sold down the road as "Americana", which currently appeals to a larger and less descrimating audience.
While in Lubec, Peer continued to record with his country band, and invited the forgotten punk bands of New Jersey to vacation and work in his new oceanfront recording studio, aptly called "The Observatory". With no light pollution, the night sky was filled with stars, meteorites and flying saucers.
Living on the Canadian border allowed Peer to listen to late night Canadian(CBC) radio. After 11pm, bands like Skinny Puppy, Tragically Hip, Sloan, Pursuit of Happiness and Stompin' Tom Connors took over the airways. Even this level of radio excellence could not keep Peer in this charming fishing village. He moved a hundred miles west and rediscovered rock'n'roll, hard driving blues, rough pop, and retro-rock. As a drummer, he was also enjoying the machine music of techno, electronica, trance and the more powerful rap and dance recordings. It was all good. The international scene was awake again. Stuff was happening. Britain was alive and well with Guitar, Miasma, Feedback and grimy Grebo bands. Other subgenres such as Art, Industrial and Goth bands were also finding an audience. The whole "alt-indie" scene, 10 years in the making, was finally here. It was in 1993 when Peer decided to go "corporate" and start the anti-coporation, "Reversing Recordings".....inspired incidentally by the mighty Reversing Falls in the city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
The label started out as a means to promote Maine artists, and the first two compilations did just that. Since then Peer has gone global. The label may be a Maine-based label, however it has no exclusive fondness for "local" talent. Again if your sound is new and hip and you are kind and hard-working, Peer is willing to broker your soul to the devil in exchange for your success on Earth.
Please send all music submissions to: Reversing Recordings, PO Box 5134, Ellsworth, Maine 04605. Attention: Peer and Jones.
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