Washington DC's Crippled Pilgrims released an LP and mini-LP in the mid-80s
that will be re-issued as a 2-on-1 CD on Reaction Recordings in early 2004.


Their brand of neo-psychedelia conjures influences of the era (like
Television, Wire, Rain Parade, Dumptruck, Green On Red, Meat Puppets, The
Dream Syndicate, etc.), but sounds like it could have been written and
recorded yesterday.


Parasol General manager Bill Johnson comments, "I
initially taped the records from my college roommate Jeff Dimpsey of Hum
and subsequently made an ongoing offer to purchase them from him for $50.
He never budged - he's no dummy - and it took about 10 years of hunting,
but I finally found copies to call my own in a secondhand record bin in
Chicago."



The records found a stronghold at Parasol, as copies made their way into
Johnson's collection, as well as the collection of Parasol owner Geoff
Merritt. Parasol colleague Jim Kelly claimed to not have ever heard of the
band, but when Johnson played a copy of the band's LP at Parasol, Kelly
surprisingly exclaimed, "These are the Crippled Pilgrims? My first band
[from Charleston, Illinois] used to play that song!"



The record is being mastered from vinyl copies provided by the band using
an ELP Laser Turntable.