The Guilty Pleasures "Summer Strange"
Featuring Members of the Ponys, Hot Machines and Baseball Furies!
After a successful jump from their native Bloomington-Normal to Chicago, the Guilty Pleasures became hometown heroes of a burgeoning Windy City scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, centered around Horizontal Action Magazine, the annual Blackout Festivals, countless weekends hosting touring garage and punk bands from around the world, and one notorious hot tub hidden somewhere deep within Cook County. The band folded not long after their elusive full length album was finally completed in 2001, when they trekked to Detroit to commit twelve songs to tape with Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders. The finished recordings were passed around on burned cds throughout the underground over ensuing years, as the band’s members went on to play in such notables as The Ponys, Hot Machines, France Has The Bomb, and Baseball Furies, among other pursuits… This vinyl release of “SUMMER STRANGE” was mastered from Jim Diamond’s original analog tapes by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering, and put to wax for the first time at Archer Record Pressing in Detroit, just down the road from Ghetto Recorders, the former chicken processing plant at which they laid these sounds down so many years ago.
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