The Normals

I saw these NOLA punks in Austin when I briefly lived there during the fall of 1979. At the time, I wondered how the kid on bass was going to avoid getting whiplash from banging his head so hard on every song. Their one released 7-inch is rarer than hen's teeth, but they had a CD compilation (Your Punk Heritage 1977-84) out in '98, and a 12-track '79 session they taped in Memphis is apparently due for a vinyl release this spring.