Black Sheep Squadron

Black Sheep Squadron is a highly underrated band from Syracuse. At least it's my impression that they fly a little bit under the radar of the hardcore public. Anyway, the first songs I ever heard by BSS were the ones on the Foreign Object LP and I was hooked immediately. Despite the name, which I think is a little weird, considering the history of the country I'm from. I am aware that this band name doesn't have anything to do with Nazism, still it has this weird ring to me. But I digress... Raw, angry, right in your face music - that's what you get from the Black Sheep Squadron. One of my favourite and most played LPs from the 2000s for sure.

I got most of the pressings of their only LP quite easily, including the test pressing, but the white pressing out of 100 had eluded me for too many years. I finally got it from a guy I also got some other goodies from. But i'm gonna delve into that story with another post. 

Here's a picture of the whole squad:

Black SS - Foreign Object - test pressing - /45
Black SS - Foreign Object - grey - /100
Black SS - Foreign Object - orange/green splatter - 2nd press - /1025
Black SS - Foreign Object - clear/pink splatter - /100
Black SS - Foreign Object - red - 700
Black SS - Foreign Object - white - /100

I also got another sweet record by Black SS from the same seller. This is a test press for the Black SS / How We Are split, released by Specimen 32 and Stop Whining Start Winning. Pretty neat that I got #20/20. I like both sides of the split, but I'm leaning towards the Black Sheep Squadron here. Actually, I thought I was done with this release once I got a test press, but as it turns out I'm apparently missing some versions of the record release sleeve and colour vinyl combinations. Oh well, the fun just never ends.