Description

2022 re-issue on red vinyl of the bands one and only single with two bonus live tracks. Limited 400 copies

In 1978, inspired by the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols album and Devo’s infamous appearance on Saturday Night Live, De Pere fourteen-year-olds Ed Guerriero and the late Bret Starr set out to form a punk band. Guerriero sang, Bret played guitar and the band practiced in the basement of the Bret household on Summer Ridge Road. (Bret, 24, died from complications caused by a drug overdose in 1988.) Punk rock in Green Bay at that time was considered the music of scoundrels. By 1980 hreen Bay punk originators The Tyrants recorded their first and only record at Horizon Recording Studios in Ripon in April, 1981. As the only two punk groups in town (for a while), The Tyrants and Minors played together, hung out together and shared a manager together. Unsurprisingly, both bands recorded their lone records together. Bankrolled by manager/promoter/svengali Jeff Miller, The Tyrants and Minors set sail for tiny Horizon Recording Studios in Ripon in April, 1981. Blending pop hooks with punk energy akin to the Buzzcocks, Generation X and Undertones, Hard To Get is an irresistible pop-punk crooner. Attitude soon became Green Bay’s first legitimate punk anthem. The Tyrants and Minors can be heard together screaming Attitude and Gratitude which put the song over the top. By the end of 1981 The Tyrants was over and the original vinyl single was ignored by everyone farther than an hour drive from Green Bay, Wisconsin. It would take another ten year before the word about The Tyrants started to spread amongst collectors and the original single started to sell for prices over $200 for even worn copies. Like vocalist Ed Guerriero said when he heard about this, Life is weird.

Track list:
1. Attitude
2. Hard To Get
3. I Like Drugs-live 1979
4. Attitude-live 1981