Friday, December 2, 2011

Active Dog: Rat Race (1979)



Early Vancouver punk bands, Active Dog had quite the pedigree, Bill Shirt (later of Los Popularos), Buck Cherry (later of The Modernettes and Lost Durangos - see HERE) as well as Gord Nicholls and Robert Bruce (later of the Pointed Sticks) and Ross Carpenter (later of...well, see here).




Both sides of the single are pretty rockin', with "Rat Race" being a little closer to lo-budget New Wave and "Good, Filthy Fun" being the more straight-up guitar-punk tune.









Let us know what you think of Active Dog in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the Rat Race 7" link)

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    http://www.mediafire.com/?ltuntqvxx43bzzo

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  2. always dug the active dog.... they always fall in my mind right next to the Animal Slaves... just the way my memories sound sometimes...

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  3. Hey Jeffen

    Thanks for this great series of Vancouver posts!Much appreciated.Did I say I was looking forward to ...?

    Doug

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  4. Hey Jeffen great post, I have been enjoying your Canadina Punk oriented posts lately, and thanks for posting a link to the interview that I did with Ross Carpenter of Active Dog.

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  5. Cool tunes. BIG THANKS for ALL of your GREAT posts!! - Garry

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  6. Thanks for the post. Love this old Vancouver stuff.

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  7. JC/Doug/Dave/Garry DaveGeek/Anon
    Tahnks for the words

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    Dave
    No problem glad you did that great interview!

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