Man, the things you find in the boxes of old dead stock from The Beat. This band has a young(er) Brian Guido on guitar (sporting an awesome Iron Maiden shirt), who is from Sacramento and has been in a number of bands here. I can’t tell if this band was based here- I checked a couple of members on FB and they don’t live here. The inner booklet has a photo of Frankfurt American High School, so maybe this was a band with Brian and some expats. Maybe Brian can give more context.
Anyway, the band was categorized as Metal on CDDB but that 2nd song sounds like it belongs on a later era Adolescents album.
Track List: American Man/Bipolar/Bitter End/Self Defense/Baghdad Bop/Ghostrider/Plagued Innocence
Here is some additional context from Brian Guido: “We were teenagers that formed during high school in Frankfurt Germany in 1987. Since then all of us moved back to the States and after years decided that we should get together to hang out, rehearse and record some material. Sacramento was picked because I lived here and was that only member of the band still playing fairly regularly. The recording were made at Matt Erich’s studio. Since two of us have created another project called the Ralph Schlemmer Orchestral.”
Recorded by: Matt Erich (Erich Musical Enterprise)
Transfer off CD by Shayne, Using good ol’ Windows Media Player (lossless rip), Sony Sound Forge 10 to put the tracks together, Vegas Pro 15 to make the mp4.