Great British Heroes Eric Miller / Don’t Give a Damn 7″ reissue
The other GBH who came before G.B.H. made a quick appearance on one of the Bored Teenagers comps and then faded into the background…except for the true freaks who sought after the Lightning Records 45 that was pressed and pulled and never released. Early UK punk businessmen and managers all scrambling for the money-grab were truly motherfuckers, and the band slogged about for years without a proper release even though they started gigging in 1977. There was a boot a few years ago, and now a new generation of rockers can drop the needle on some first wave punk by way of proto-pub rock gold. “Don’t Give a Damn” is a burner featuring guitars that land like an amateurish On Through the Night outtake, and the A-side is…well, there’s a reason it was booted, and there’s a reason the Bored Teenagers curator pulled it out of mountains of underappreciated English punk singles. I’m sure this one will disappear fast, but I’m just as sure that someone else is going to give it a(nother) rebirth in a decade or so. As they should, of course.