American Leather Records and TKO Records will be releasing “Young Lords,” an early live recording from hardcore punk band Poison Idea, on May 1. The record was originally recorded on May 5, 1982, and the original tracks were mixed and mastered for this release.
Poison Idea, consisting of vocalist Jerry A. Lang, Tom ‘Pig Champion’ Roberts on guitar, Dean Johnson on drums, and Glen Estes on bass, have release seven studio albums since 1986, with their latest, Confuse and Conquer, in 2015.
“1982. We played for about a year and a half. We booked shows ourselves playing small gigs, open mics, house parties,” Lang says. Setting the scene for what Poison Idea were up to in their early days, he goes on to add, “We were all 18 years old. Except Tom. All fast, short punk-rock songs. We sang about what 18-year-old kids sing about.”
The album is set to be released on May 2. You could order the record on the release date via Bandcamp and BigCartel.
