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February 26th,1994
(previously unreleased, produced by Tony French at Social Services Studios, Baltimore, Md.)

The most important early 90's band from the Glen Arm underground was Spastic Cracker. Its two founders were artist/poet Tricia Lane and bassist/writer Lisa Starace. The pair met while attending Dulaney High School and shared interests in music, visual art, and literature, as well as leftist political beliefs, feminism, and a great desire to find their own special niche within the world of creative expression. As a duo the group had their first practice on Halloween night 1992 and shortly afterward Dulaney High student Cory Davolos came in on guitar along with drummer Laura Cerulli who Starace had befriended at a band camp at Towson State University in summer'92. Guitarist /Dulaney student Dave Raymond soon came in to replace Davolos who only lasted a few months before quitting in order to concentrate more on The Retarded Dogs, a band that he formed with myself and multi-media artist /Dulaney student Jon Woodstock.

...Spastic Cracker's sound developed quickly from a mesh of typical early 90's and classic rock styles into something transcendent of any era. There was Raymond's inventive fret work informed as much by the fluid playing of Slash and Jerry Garcia as it was by the avant minimalism of Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground. Cerulli's drums were driven by a solid 4/4 beat with occasional detours into more exotic realms of rhythm (she then counted latin pop music as one of her main influences). No matter what though, Lane and Starace were always front and center. With lines like "It's ok to be alone even when you're not", Tricia's trembling vocals and spoken word incantations conjured up a quasi-mystical deliverance from alienation while Lisa's bass work complimented Lane's sentiments with a churning melodic fervor more akin to that of a lead guitarist than a bassist. These elements all shimmer hypnotically here in this 1994 recording of the song 'Thistle'... - Mike Apichella (note: a much longer version of this article is featured in the 40 pg. booklet which accompanies the cassette version of Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts.)

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from Various Artists - Towson​-​Glen Arm Freakouts: 1992​-​1999, released February 28, 2013

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