The Smoking Section
The Smoking Section produced a series of demo recordings between 1988 and 1991. Smooth & Nasty (recorded swiftly at Dancing Dog in Emeryville CA in 1988) was the first, and got us off to a decent start with local Bay Area bookings. Finer Than Blue was recorded in 1989 at Alpha and Omega in San Francisco over a series of late night spec sessions, largely fueled by inspiration and ginseng.
These are audio-in cassette-to-digital transfers.
Smooth & Nasty
[128kb MP3]
Finer Than Blue
[128kb MP3]
*Not included on original “release”.
Live @ Slim’s
Exact date unknown at this time, but likely late 1990. Lineup includes v.2 of the Knee Deep Horns, featuring Scott Jensen and Adam Beach.
Got a link to this site, and it brought me right back to 1990 – good times at the Omni!!! you HAVE to post more of those songs! – Jim
Wow! I bought a cassette at the I-Beam in 1990 and played “Big Fish” until it broke. Thank you Thank you Thank you for posting this music. “Driving” is amazing as well.
Hopefully, we’ll see a reunion tour at some point??
thanks again.
Holy crap!!!!! A friend sent me the link, I downloaded Big Fish, haven’t heard it in 15 plus years and I still remembered every word. you guys were the sh$# back in the day. Thanks for posting the stuff, it is great to hear it again.
where r th horns?
These demos were recorded before we had the horns on board. I’ll try to get the last demo up sometime, that session had them.
Nice, thanks for posting. A lot of what was called “Bay Area thrash-funk” at the time had very little true funk in it, but you guys always laid it down heavy and real (what a rhythm section!) It stands up well.