VOLCANO SUNS

“Jak”

(Boston 1985)

The endless problem: musicians are unemployable, yet punk rock seldom pays the bills.

Every town needs its own patron of the arts who’ll let the rock bands work for a living wage even if they constantly take time off to go play $50 shows in the next town.

Atlanta always had Fellini’s Pizza, where today’s lunch was often served by the guy who you saw rock the bar last night.

After Mission of Burma broke up, Peter Prescott joined legions of other musicians at the Copy Cop on Boylston Street in Boston. Musicians with restaurant jobs fed their bandmates when they could get away with it. Copy Cop was better; millions of show fliers were illicitly printed by generations of musicians who took advantage of Xerox downtime. Noisy machines weren’t really a problem: a copy shop wasn’t any louder than a rehearsal room and you could run the copiers no matter how hung over you were.

Peter was both the drummer and the front man in Volcano Suns. The lineup changed, but Peter managed to make five more albums after this one, moving from Homestead to SST to Touch & Go.

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