try 2nd ave.

ebay has a few right now

i really like the wipers.

You might also check out the Myspace page to Reunite The Wipers.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=260047810

"kicks the shit out of Nirvana, any day of the week."

wrong. wrong. wrong.

what the hell is wrong with you?

I got "Nirvana Forever" tattooed on my ass.

May Kurt's ghost eat your soul.

Alien Boy (1980) based on Chasse? How'd you make that up?
The Wipers even broke up LONG before he died.

Good job, Matt. There's hope for you yet.
A good place to look for Wipers' stuff is Zeno Oddities on E. Burnside between 6th and 7th. The guy who runs the place, Steve, played in the Wipers from roughly 1986 on, and is still partners with Greg in the Zeno Record label.

And yes, the footage in NW Passage of "Over the Edge" sent a chill up my spine. In my opinion The Wipers are the best band to come out of PDX, along with Poison Idea and Dead Moon, of course.

Greg Sage and Mr. Chasse were very close way back and Steve confirmed that Greg wrote "Alien Boy" about Chasse all those years ago. It's kinda spooky actually.

Cheeers!

'Greg Sage and Mr. Chasse were very close way back'

I did not know that and stand corrected. Interesting

DK-Greg Sage wrote on his website that he wrote Alien Boy about Jim shortly after Chasse died. Here's the link:

http://www.zenorecords.com/jimjim/jim.htm

Here's what Sage wrote:

I first met Jim Jim in late 1977 when he was 14. He was amazingly intelligent and creative.

It is so rare to meet someone his age that has such a depth of spirit and insight that age has no boundaries or equations but gives you a sense of timelessness. It is hard to put into words without sounding metaphysical, but in my mind I felt as if I was in the presence of someone who had lived several very intense lifetimes.

We quickly became good friends and I introduced him to many friends in PDX's music flock, where he took root and quickly became a part of many peoples lives. He was loved by many and will be missed.

Chasse had always had the premonition, for some reason, that he'd be killed by police. And the lyrics of Alien Boy include such lines as "They hurt what they don't understand."

Go and grab your gun
Got him on the run
Cause he's an alien
They hurt what they don't understand

http://jameschasse.blogspot.com/

When we get to 1000 friends on myspace we're going to ask Greg Sage to do a reunion tour. Hopefully he'll want to do it after he sees how many people really care about the Wipers. There are a ton of people who are too young to have ever seen the Wipers play out in a club, I know it would make thousands of people's day if they could see the Wipers live. I'm crossing my fingers.

Alright, Matt. I grudgingly admit that you have really good taste.

Nearly a decade ago, after a really nasty breakup, I drove my cab around Austin for weeks with a boom-box plugged into the cigarette lighter. Guess what tape was on endless repeat ?

...you're-you're-you're such a tragedy...

Two minutes and five seconds of perfection, and I've grown to really hate punk rock after all these years, too. But the Wipers transcended all that. Maybe money from a reunion could go towards trying to prosecute the murderers of the inspiration of many of those songs.

That's a great story. I can totally imagine you driving round Texas with the Wipers on full blast.

I agree, they transcended punk rock. They transcended pretty much everything, as far as I've heard so far. They're the best band I think I've ever listened to. It's extraordinary that they should have emerged from Portland. Extraordinary.

What have we lost since then? What's indie rock compared to this stuff? There's not the same level of intention. That's what I feel. Or, at least, that intention is rarer. There are some bands who seem to have it. But the industry doesn't encourage it. Nor did it ever, I suppose.

The Wipers were a rare, rare coming-together of talents.

The Wipers had a fully formed sound by the time punk rock happened. But as it happened, we were more than ready to listen to them. And it is true... Jim Jim and Greg were good friends.
Why aren't you looking for the records on Greg's site? I think he has pretty much everything.

http://www.zenorecords.com/

I remember when I first listened to Nirvana. I thought that sound was VERY familiar...

Find the original Trap Records pressing. It's the tubes, man. Far ahead of Steve Albini, Greg Sage was an engineer who extolled the virtues of building and using analog - vacuum tube - amps.

It's hard - possibly impossible - for the average ears, like mine, to hear the subtle difference in warmth and resonance between tubes and digital amp and recording equipment, but the net result - like "Is This Real" is overwhelming proof of that state of technology somehow attaching itself to a teenage soul.

Great under-appreciated album by a great under-appreciated artist.

Oh yeah. Vacuum Tubes, all the way. You can really hear the psychedelic influence in the "Over the Edge" LP, too. What did he use to get that sound, like an Ampeg or something, right ?

I once rescued an old "Earth G-2000," which is basically a Kustomesque naugahyde-covered industrial strength copy of an early 70's Fender 6L6gc powered 100W tube head, with vibrato and reverb, but much louder. Wound up getting a Hafler T2, and retrofitting a broken Kustom cabinet with a salvaged 18" bass bin speaker and a PA horn, to really wake it up. I love me some tubes.