Gynecologists HOOSIER PSYCHOPATHS 1981-94 (Gulcher 432)

1 Sex Orgy With The Bradee Bunch
2 Dog Face
3 Jimmy Jones
4 John Wayne Gacy

Kinder, Gentler Nation 7" EP

5 Ron And Nancy
6 Leper Colony
7 Infant Doe
8 Mary Lou
9 Shape Of Things To Come
10 Ride Captain Ride

A Goat...You Geek cassette

11 Duk Ku Kim
12 Slit Your Wrists
13 Animal Farm
14 Gym Gerard
15 Democrats Suck Donkey D*cks
16 Juanita Ring
17 Kent State
18 Young Ron

Auto-Erotica Asphyxia & Various Moldy Turds cassette

19 Aunt Bee
20 Licorice Baby
21 Love And Haight
22 Persian Gulf P*ssy
23 We're An American Band
24 Bloody Kotex

B-Side: Unreleased Rarities

25 How High's The Water?/Contra A-Go-Go
26 McMartin Preschool
27 Gotta P*ss/Enema Of The People
28 Peanut Butter Prophylactic
29 Quaaludes And Beer
30 Fart Speak/F*cking Wench

Of all the sick and sordid sagas to come floating out of the punk rock scene in isolated Indiana, none are more twisted than the ravings of Tommy Afterbirth and the band he founded in the late 1970s, the legendary Gynecologists. Tommy learned to love the seedy underbelly of pop culture at his father's drive-in movie theater, in the small redneck town south of Indianapolis where he grew up. He had an entrepreneurial spirit and opened a record store as a high school student. Already passionate about rock and roll, Tommy naturally gravitated towards the Iggy Pop & The Stooges brand of musical mayhem. He befriended a cheesy heavy metal band called Stone Edge that played mostly covers, but did have one original, a cruel putdown song called "Dog Face."

Tommy came up with the idea of recording and pressing the vilest gross-out novelty record EVER and corralled the members of Stone Edge to participate. He scribbled out some perverted lyrics about the Brady Bunch, and the band quickly threw their musical weight behind them. "Dog Face" was already written, and Tommy targeted Hoosier native Jim Jones and child killer John Wayne Gacy for additional subject matter. Voila! we have Feces & Psycopaths, the debut Gynecologists EP.

The next item in our carnival of sounds is the Gynecologists second 7-inch EP, Kinder, Gentler Nation. The vinyl was released in 1989, but half the tracks were recorded much earlier, in early 1983, as part of an eleven track demo released in 1984 on a cassette titled A Goat...You Geek. The lead-off track, "Ron And Nancy," combines two of Tommy's great obsessions, kinky copulation and Republican politics. Tommy's vocals were spot on; listen to him gleefully sing "Even Ed Meese got a piece!" Kinder, Gentler Nation's three tracks from AGYG, including "The Shape Of Things To Come" from the 1968 exploitation flick Wild In The Streets, alternated with three songs recorded sometime after 1984 including another cover, "Ride Captain Ride" by Blues Image.

Backtracking chronologically, we now have the remaining eight tracks from A Goat...You Geek. As with later recordings, most of the songs were impromptu compositions, and cover the gamut of subject matter near and dear to Tommy's elephantine heart, including abortion, bestiality, TV personalities ("Gym Gerard"), and left-wingers; listen to him wail "Those traitors don't even deserve a decent burial" on "Kent State." Oddly, with his love of Ronald Reagan, Tommy had no problem pasting Nancy's head on a picture of a woman being screwed by a dog for the cover of AGYG.

The dozen remaining tracks on our CD first saw the light of day on the Gynecologists second cassette-only release, 1994's Auto-Erotica Asphyxia & Various Moldy Turds. Once again the themes of scatology and weird sex which run throughout the Gynecologists career were highlighted. Another classic rock cover, Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band," makes an appearance; how Tommy loved pop music of all colors.

After 1995, Tommy's focus turned to booking bands at local nightclubs, but he couldn't shake the Gynecologists. Working with guitar legend Frankie Camaro, they recorded Sharon Tate's Baby in 1998. The album remains unreleased. In 2002, Tommy suffered a stroke and moved out of state shortly thereafter, but his mighty punk rock heart continues to beat and inspire. Fortunately we now have this compact disc to document one of the most notorious punk rock singers in history, Tommy Afterbirth of the Gynecologists!

John Barge
Panics, Walking Ruins
(from CD liner notes)