PINK EYE



(Damian Interview - ''Lifes a rape" issue 2  - 2006?)


I just read a Pink Eye interview with you and Jonah from the band and you came across as really in touch with a personal and like therapeutic side of your self - how come this doesn't come across in Fucked Up?

Pink Eyes: Fucked Up serves a different purpose for me. The lyrics I write in fucked up address broader themes. Pink Eye is a very selfish thing for me. It's a lot of fantasies and personal ranting set to music. I hope that Fucked Up reaches more people and people can take something away from it. With Pink Eye it is not important that anyone gets anything more then a surface level enjoyment. I read a review of it that alluded to it being some kind of joke band and at first I was hurt that it would be misinterpreted, which is not to say that I didn't have some humor intended in the lyrics but that some one could so easily dismiss it as a comedy thing when there are parts which I am serious as a heart attack about, but I quickly realized that it doesn't matter. With Pink Eye, it is something so personal that I can't expect anyone else to get what I meant.
(from Fucked Up Interview - Heartattack Fanzine 2006)



Fold out sleeve (folded out) - reverse has school shooter game
Regular pressings are on pink and white vinyl with pink being the most common. The gold vinyl is a limited version, usually hand-numbered on the 'B' side label; the labels are otherwise the same for all pressings. The orange is limited to 10, but its not the rarest version...



Stats:
Side A: How To Rob An Indie Rock Star / 1 Pink 2 Blues
Side B:  In Praise Of School Shooters / Behind The Shoe / THC0
Released: 2005
Label: Slasher (MURDER 004)

The gold vinyl were for me Damien and Jonah to use as gifts/traders etc. I certainly sent a bunch to Slasher members, however the white vinyl were the ones made for club members. The mixed colours were just a bit of an added bonus. Kind of surprising they made so many orange ones usually the blends only take two three records. 
(Matt Bickle - Slasher Records)
Pressing Info:
(Thanks to Matt Slasher for info and pics)
Test Pressings  - 8 on black
Pink Vinyl - 1350  (regular version - some are a little darker than others)
White Vinyl - 110 (slasher club version - some have streaks)
Gold Vinyl - 88 (numbered copies retained and used for trades / giveaways - officially 20 were destroyed, though it was actually more like 32. Pieces of the broken records were used in the Pink Eye box-set)
Orange Vinyl - 10
*Puke - 4
White /Pink swirl - 2
Grey /White swirl - 2

*All variants except puke shown in picture above.



Puke vinyl - picture taken of record laying on sleeve - vinyl is translucent



Inserts: 


Inserts are single-sided xerox prints on different coloured paper. The pink vinyl comes with white paper, white vinyl comes with pink. Gold comes with goldenrod paper stamped on the back. 






Variants: 
  • Seven variants (of whole disks)  - different colours as above.
  • Pink Eye Box Set version - as below

Pink Eye portrait on gold encrusted box, containing regular pink vinyl in stamped dust sleeve and a piece of the exclusive gold vinyl. 


The boxes are big, flimsy, difficult to store / transport and were given to punks; some of them look a little squashed these days... 
The rest of the space in the box is filled with a special long-sleeve shirt,  pack of button pins, and the School Shooter Pack comprising plastic (Glock-type) pistol, 3 rounds of ammunition and a target.






12" Version

In 2006 there was a 12" 'repress' which has an additional track and some different song titles...

Pressing Info:
14 test press (These were NOT on square vinyl).
First press 300 on clear vinyl.
2nd press 700 on black vinyl.


Sleeves are the same for both versions of the main pressing



Black and clear vinyl showing 'A' and 'B' side labels


Clear vinyl comes with a yellow insert, black vinyl comes with white. Basically larger versions of the 7" design but, the layout has been updated and there are a few alterations.

Yellow insert has artwork on reverse, white is blank.


Love this decorated dust sleeve - have no idea how it came to be.




Pink Eye CD

Limited to 50 CD with ''Songs from the upcoming Slasher Records 7" as well as other rare grooves" including tracks intended for the first Criminally Insane LP and a couple of interesting Fucked Up numbers...
DIY CD with numbered inlay

School Shooter Game on reverse of inlay



Notes:

Live band had Mark Hurst (Punch In The Face) and a dude who was in Unit Pride (Tim Monroe) Both of them lived in Chicago. I think one show in Toronto and one in Chicago and that was it.
(Matt Bickle - Slasher)

Jonah and Mark Hurst
(Photo courtesy of Matt Bickle)

L-R: Damian, Tim Monroe, Neal Dyrkacz, Mark Hurst, Jonah Falco
(Photo courtesy of Matt from Chicago)


Neal Dyrkacz is credited as bass player on the recordings - Neal and Mark Hurst also played a few shows with Career Suicide