We stopped in Record Archive over the weekend where they were celebrating their “Almost Fortieth Year Anniversary” with live performances by bands, food trucks of every stripe and 20 percent off everything in the store. We caught Anonymous Willpower and we came home with a few used singles. We were talking to Dick Storms in the far corner of their huge space and he pointed to some boxes of Archive Records 45s up on the top shelf. Hi-Techs‘ “Screamin’ You Head” was among them.
We were laughing about the old times and co-owner Alayna joined the conversation. They cooked up an idea to get the bands from those days back together in some form or another to celebrate the long defunct, in-house label. That would be a hoot. I found this old photo I took of Dick as we signed the contract for the second and last Hi-Techs single, “Screamin’ You Head.” Bob Martin is in the picture because we had already formed a new band, Personal Effects. Dwight Glodell produced this single.
I think we can all agree the shark at left is what makes this pic… until
holy crap, look at at all those lonesome cowboy 45s
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Handwritten contract!