Flashback: The 33 & 1/3 Anniversary of “Hello, My Name Is Blotto! What’s Yours?”
Time flies…
Yes, today marks the 33 & 1/3 anniversary of Blotto’s debut recording, the 33 & 1/3RPM EP, “Hello, My Name Is Blotto! What’s Yours?” The four-song slab o’ vinyl was released on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1980, featuring such now-golden oldies as “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard” and “We Are the Nowtones.”
Here’s a link to an interview in Metroland that Brian Stevens attempted to conduct with the original Blotto family – Cheese, Bowtie, Broadway, Lee Harvey, Sarge and Blanche – at the time of the release: (Part 1); (Part 2 – which also contains a review of the record by Peter Iselin).
OMG–this makes me feel so bloody OLD!!! Seems like yesterday we closed down The Grinch w/Donnybrook Fair & Bogies w/Blotto. Long live Blotto! You guys ROCK!!! You always did, you always will, grey hairs or not!
How many people still have their vinyl copy? I do.
Still have all vinyl copies
I have one I picked up at a garage sale years ago.
Still have mine – all my copies ! Including an autographed Combo Akimbo ! Long live Blotto, love Miss Y-Von Blotto
Hmm – Did I buy mine at FantaCo or next door at Worlds Records?
I have all vinyl/DVD/45’s/VHS/Sweatshirts/T-Shirts…OMG, my favorite band ever. I still love and always will love BLOTTO. Always at the Live shows every year!
Best album cover art ever. Yeah Sarge did that.
Thanks, Nippertown for remembering. And thanks to all of you who still make being Blotto big fun! That includes you Rip, Chip, Trip & Kip….