The Gizmos (v.2) BETA

Red Snerts (1980 LP)

Red Snerts, 1980

Title: Red Snerts: The Sound of Gulcher
Original year of release: 1981
Label: Gulcher
Product code:
Media Format: 12" LP

Side A Tracks:
Designer Genes, Amoebas in Chaos
The Midwest Can Be Allright, The Gizmos
Drugs Are For Thugs, The Panics
I Bet Not, The Jetsons
Mr Science, Mr. Science
Peer Pressure, The Defekts
Banging Your Head, A-xax
Indianapolis, E-in Brino

Side B Tracks:
30 Second Affair, Phil Hundley
New Generation, The Zero Boys
Ladies With Appliances, Dow Jones and the Industrials
Pink Lincoln, Last Four (4) Digits
Diddy Wah Diddy, The Post Raisin Band
Right & Wrong, Freddy and the Fruitloops
Out & Down, Bay-root
Broken Windows, The Dancing Cigarettes

Web versions of the original inserts.

Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Gizmos (1978)

The Gizmos v.2 EP IV, "Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Gizmos"

Title: Never mind the Sex Pistols Here's The Gizmos
Original year of release: 1978
Label: Gulcher
Product code:
Media Format: 6-Track 7-inch EP

Side A Tracks:
Jumpin' on the Bandwagon
Cry Real Tears
The American Dream

Side B Tracks:
Tie Me Up
1978
Just a Little Insane

Hoosier Hysteria (1979)

Hoosier Hysteria, 1979

Title: Hoosier Hysteria
Original year of release: 1980
Label: Gulcher
Product code
Media Format: 12" LP (split b/t two bands)

Side A Tracks: (Gizmos)
Progressive Rock
Pay
Dead Astronauts
Rock & Roll Don’t Come From New York
Bible Belt Baby
Reggae Song
Take Me to the River

Side B Tracks: (Dow Jones and the Industrials)
What's the Difference?
It Ain't Good Enough
Set Yourself on Fire
Malfunction
Dude in the Direction Field
Rocking Farmers
Hold that Coed
USA

Gizmos World Tour (1978)

The Gizmos v.1 EP III, "Gizmos World Tour"

Title: Gizmos World Tour
Original year of release: 1978
Label: Gulcher
Product code:
Media Format: 4-track 7-inch EP

Side A Tracks:
Gizmos World Tour
We're Gonna Rumble

Side B Tracks:
Gimme Back My Foreskin
Hey Beat Mon!

Amerika First (1976)

The Gizmos v.1 EP II, "Amerika First"

Title: Amerika First
Original year of release: 1977
Label: Gulcher
Product code:
Media Format: 4-track 7-inch EP

Side A Tracks:
Amerika First
Human Garbage Disposal
Ballad of The Gizmos

Side B Tracks:
Kiss of the Rat
Pumpin' to Playboy
Cave Woman
Regular Dude

The Gizmos (1976)

The Gizmos v.1 EP I, "The Gizmos"

Title: The Gizmos
Original year of release:1976
Label: Gulcher
Product code:
Media Format: 4-track 7-inch EP

Side A Tracks:
Muff Divin'
That's Cool

Side B Tracks:
Mean Screen
Chicken Queen

About The Gizmos Web Site

This website is currently under development. It's an attempt to provide an informal home for information pertaining to the Indiana-based proto-punk band, The Gizmos.

The Gizmos have a very complex backstory. Suffice, for now, to note that in effect there were two different bands that share the same name, logo, and record label. This site is primarily about the second version of the band, who were very influential at the regional level. They had a playing career from roughly 1978 to 1981 in Indiana and briefly in Hoboken, New Jersey and the metropolitan New York area.

The first version of the band is ably documented by founding member (and original logo designer) Eddie Flowers on his web site, Slippy Town.

We'll try to include info on the projects and members of the first version of the band, but their influence was both wider scale and more diffuse, as they effectively broke up before the players we'll be focusing on here picked up the name.

While we hope that the various people this web site is about help out and contribute their own stories, this is not an official website and although various Gizmos and record label owners (I'm looking at you, Bob) have been very supportive of my attempts to figure out the history, the site has no commercial affiliation with either Gulcher Records or the Gizmos.

Mike Whybark - April 13, 2004

Eddie Flowers

Current proprietor of Slippy Town and the Gizmos v.1 web site, Eddie designed the lightning bolt logo and is a founding member of the original version of the band.

Crash

Crash drummed with the band briefly, between Shadow Meyers and Robbie Wise. He appears in the brief video shot in 1980.

Robbie Wise

Robbie Wise replaced original late-period drummer Shadow Meyers when the Gizmos relocated to Hoboken New Jersey in 1980. He appears on the long-delayed 1999 Release, "The Midwest can Be Allright."

Tim Carroll

Guitarist (and Hoosier) Tim Carroll went on to a career as a songwriter in Nashville.

Billy Nightshade

Minnesota's Billy Nightshade was the bassist for the 1978-1981 and later incarnation of the band. Currently Boston-based, he went on to play in numerous other bands.

Dale Lawrence

Hoosier legend Dale Lawrence began his career in the late period Gizmos and went on to lead the legendary Vulgar Boatmen.

Bob Gulcher

Bob Gulcher owns Gulcher records, which released all the original Gizmos material (except one song on a compilation).

Mike Whybark

Mike Whybark is the technical resource behind this site. He long treasured a third-generation dub of 'the Gizmos Story.'

Steve Bouton

Former Bloomington resident Bouton has volunteered to be the discographer for this project and has been promised free reign for his most obsessive nitpickery.