THE SHEEP RECORDS STORY #19: LOMBEGO SURFERS "THIRD STAGE / TEMPTATION" (2001)

Sheep Records was a Swiss underground label specialized in Garage-Rock, Surf, Lounge and other Rock'n'Roll oddities. Run by Christian Müller from Zürich, along with friends Andi Frick and Andreas Egi, it was active from 1996 to 2004 and published about 30 releases, mostly on 7" vinyl singles.



In october 2006, after about two years of hiatus, all the contents of the now defunct Sheep Records website were deleted from the Internet, and replaced with a blank page announcing that "Der Kebab ist gegessen" ("The kebab is eaten"), a last goodbye and a reference to the label's cataloguing system that included the prefix "kebab" for vinyl releases and "gigot" for CD releases.



The nineteenth Sheep Records release marked the return to the label of Swiss Garage-Rock stars Lombego Surfers, after about five years since their split 7" single with The Feebles that we have documented here long ago.

"Third Stage / Temptation" was released in April 2001 as a 7" single limited to 300 copies on blue vinyl and 700 copies on black vinyl, for a total of 1,000 copies.

On Side A we find "Third Stage", a short and fast instrumental whose simple structure doesn't allow more than a brief guitar solo which is repeated during the three sections that the song is made up.

Side B offers "Temptation", a much slower and evocative piece that suggests distorted images of a bar in Tijuana where hopes sink in rattlesnake Tequila as generous and conspiring señoritas invite customers upstairs... Sort of...





Here's the track list and credits for this 7" single:

01. Third Stage (2:11)
02. Temptation (3:41)

Recorded by T. Bruderer at TT-Recs, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Both tracks were remastered from the original vinyl release in December 2016 and are available in FLAC lossless format, along with scans of the complete original artwork.

As usual, please have a look at the comments for the download link.

Here'a short bio of Lombego Surfers sourced from the Internet...

"The Lombego Surfers are not some tanned sunny boys from California but rather the hardest working Voodoo rock punkers with the coolest guitar riffs since the Stooges. The three rock’n’roll pagans from Boston and Basel don’t give a hoot about trends: the rock’n’roll road is straight on, the clubs on the way are old pals where a cold beer is always waiting and the last man standing puts the bones away. That’s the Lombego Surfers’s way. Right now they are on the road with their highly recommended new album Ticket Out of Town in their duffel bag."

The following clips offer a complete preview of the remastered single, enjoy "Third Stage" and "Temptation"!

More information about Sheep Records and Lombego Surfers is available here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140810033155/http://www.surfnroll.de/interviews/sheep/sheep.html

http://www.lombegosurfers.ch/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/134916-Lombego-Surfers

http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=1558

https://web.archive.org/web/20131209013559/http://www.surfnroll.de/interviews/lombego/lombego.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20131209020714/http://www.surfnroll.de/interviews/lombego/lombego2.html

The Sheep Records story series will continue during the next months. Your input is more than welcome: if you want to get in touch please write to stereocandies [at] hotmail [dot] com or leave a comment in the box below, thank you!