“Much ink has been spilled
debating the meaning of the band's name. John absolutely insists that he was
unaware of a CBS News interview from February 10, 1964, in which John Lennon,
dismissing a similar question about their moniker, quipped, "It means
Beatles, doesn't it? But that's just a name, you know, like 'shoe'." Paul
McCartney immediately chimed in, "The Shoes, you see? We could have been
called the Shoes for all you know." But if the band's name was intended to
be an intentional evocation of that moment, there would certainly have been a
"The," which there isn't. Asked why, John says, "I guess Shoes
just sounded right... like 'look at those cool shoes' or 'where are my shoes?'
... it was like Sparks or Wings or Faces or even Big Star... The first time we
heard the 'the' was from a writer...we winced and corrected him. 'No, no…it's
just Shoes.' ... 'The Shoes' just rubbed us wrong.”
- fra ‘Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes’ af Mary
E. Donnelly og Moira McCormick. 2013.
Rundt omkring på nettet forsøger
ildsjæle at tale Shoes debutplade, ’Black Vinyl Shoes’, fra 1977, op til at have
samme powerpop kvaliteter som Big Stars 3rd, så langt vil jeg ikke strække mig.
Albummet blev indspillet i en dagligstue i Zion i Illinois, bandets hjemby. Det
udkom i 1000 eksemplarer på Shoes eget pladeselskab Black Vinyl Records og blev
solgt i lokale pladeforretninger og via en postordreaftale med magasinet Bomp! Om
jeg tager fejl med hensyn til pladens kvaliteter, kan I selv vurdere herunder.
PVC Records fandt i øvrigt pladen så fremragende, at de genudgav den i november
1978.
Her er hele debutalbummet:
En originaludgave af ’Black Vinyl
Shoes’, står vist i omkring 1200 - 1300 kr. i dag.
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