MR. EPP AND THE CALCULATIONS: Ridiculing the Apocalypse Vinyl LP

Mr. Epp and the Calculations' Ridiculing the Apocalypse on vinyl LP via Bang Records (BANG 190).

Before grunge was a genre, it was an insult Mark Arm wrote about his own band: 'Pure grunge! Pure noise! Pure shit!' That band was Mr. Epp and the Calculations — conceived in a math class at Bellevue Christian High School in 1978 as a completely imaginary group, eventually becoming one of the strangest and most confrontational acts in Seattle's early underground. Steve Turner joined in the final phase; Arm and Turner would soon form Green River and later reunite in Mudhoney. Instead of learning to play, Mr. Epp learned to use distortion, repetition, awkwardness and confrontation as a language. 'Mohawk Man' reached number one on Rodney on the ROQ; their 1982 EP Of Course I'm Happy, Why? was reviewed in the first issue of Maximum Rocknroll. They shared bills with Dead Kennedys and played their final show in 1984 opening for Fang. Originally issued on CD in 1996, Ridiculing the Apocalypse is now on vinyl for the first time.