"Like White Cross, Youth Korps have that extra umph that thrash bands need to stand out in this day and age. Most of the tracks here are really intense thrashers, but there's one anguished metallic cut that sounds a lot like Black Flag's "Damaged" ("Need a Fix"). This is real strong, so I hope they release it on vinyl."
-Jeff Bale (from Maximum Rock'n'Roll #6, May/June 1983)
Youth Korps were a hardcore band from New London, Connecticut. It consisted of: Fletch on Guitar, Hurley on Bass, Pin on Drums, and Bauer on Vocals. On September 18th, 1982 they went into Radiobeat Studio and recorded a demo titled "The Quick and The Dead". It was engineered by Lou Giordano (who had produced and engineered such bands as: DYS, Negative FX, Siege, SS Decontrol, Hüsker Dü and many others) The demo was released later that year. They broke up shortly after. Eight years later a copy of the demo made its way to Germany into the hands of Peter Hoeren, owner of Crucial Response Records. Hoeren wanted to make a vinyl re-issue of the demo and wrote to the address on the tape. Luckily, it made it to someone in the band who approved the re-issue. In 1991 it was released as the " Youth Korps '82 EP". Songs from the demo also appeared on the "Birth Defect" compilation tape (released in 1983) as well as the "Brain of Stone" compilation tape (released in 1984). You can contact the guitarist at: Ed Feltch, P.O. Box 506, New London, CT. 06320, U.S.A.
If you have any pictures, stories or anything of that sort, they would be gladly excepted.
For all who are asking about merchandise and discs; there is nothing. We were dirt poor. To this day I don't know where the money came from for the recording. The only t-shirts we ever saw were homemade. So if you have a white t-shirt and a sharpee,you've got yourself an officially licensed Youth Korp t-shirt.
Didn't know we had so many fans. I was the vocalist in the band. If anyone has any questions about Youth Korps contact me and I will try to answer them for you. Don't expect a reunion.
