anyone know if they've recorded anything?

not crap...esp after the show on saturday, they were really amazing

the records are good to great...the lp White and the Complex ep are my favorites, tho their recorded catalog isn't very deep:
Voice of Reason
Complex
White
Live At the Entry/Dead At The Exit
Primo

and a couple singles, tho zom-zom could elaborate better on their discog then I could

This stuff is getting hard-to-find in even in mpls...hopefully someone will reissue this stuff someday

not crap, although there are a few easily overlooked duds in the bunch. i liked Breaking Circus a little bit better, i think.

Finding a Rifle Sport record is getting easier to do in Chicago than Mpls.

I have a cd that has both White & Primo on it.
I've never seen it around in stores.
Zom Zom gave me their three lps for my birthday.

I am biased.

Viva le Rifle Sport!

i found a copy of complex this weekend for five bucks. i looked it over because the name sounded familiar. flipped it over, noticed it was released on homestead records. so i bought it. it's the first rifle sport i've ever listened to, and i liked. a lot.


not crap.

the Classical wrote:Live At the Entry/Dead At The Exit

that's a great album title for a band from mpls.

never heard them, but i know cheapo in uptown has had at least two or three cassettes for ages.

Live at the Entry was recorded in the Entry, the Dead at the Exit was recorded at The Exit in Chicago. And it was quite dead. Steve assisted with recording "Complex" at the Chicago Recording Company, except for the very drunken live cut "Box of Dirt".

We may release the first album, "Voice of Reason" on CD sometime soon, possibly with bonus tracks from an unreleased album that was recorded a year after VOR.

There's a "Plan 39" 45, as well as a "Little Drummer Boy" single. That's about it.

Rifle Sport also recorded an album with guitarist Joe White while I was on a year "hiatus" in 1984. The Plan 39 single came from this session.

I've got White, Live at the Entry/Dead at the Exit and Complex. Pulled out White today for a listen. The song "Certain Situations" is probably my favorite on that album, along with "King of Trash" of course.

NOT CRAP.

I theenk thees guyz is A-OK, Joe!

White is my favorite, Primo a close second, VOR third, all others roundly enjoyable.

But "Box of Dirt," man that song is unique. They really captured the who-gives-a-fuck of the last 20 minutes of their stage show. I saw Rifle Sport about 1200 times, and the last 20 minutes of every set had a teetering, literally rocking near-bus-plunge quality that I have never seen duplicated. Except at the after-bash immediately following the show. That was just as teetering and bus-plunge-y.

Great, unique band with surprisingly many attractive and promiscuous female fans. Exactly what you want out of a rock band.