The Gizmos -- Dale Lawrence, Billy Nightshade, Tim Carroll, and Shadow Myers -- will be rocking the frozen midwest this weekend.  New Year's Eve at Second Story in Bloomington, Indiana, and Sunday Jan 2 at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago.  Hope to see lots of you at one or the other.

• Second Story
• The Beat Kitchen

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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