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Always Comes Back: The Authorized Recordings

by SVT

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    21 track career retrospective with an 8 page booklet that features rare band paraphernalia with remembrances from band members Jack Casady, Paul Zahl and Nick Buck along with managers Chris Coyle, Steve Countryman and 415 owner Howie Klein

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    9 track video collection of various promotion and live show clips. Includes covers of "I Walk The Line" and 'C'mon Everybody".

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    24-track double LP set featuring 3 tracks from the Jack Casady Band

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No Regrets 03:25
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Money Street 05:27
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Love Blind 02:55
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North Beach 03:09
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Secret 02:51
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Too Late 05:09
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Price Of Sex 02:31
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I Can See 03:02
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On The Beach 02:49
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New Year 03:01
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about

"The late 1970s and early 1980s were an explosive and exciting period for music and the San Francisco scene was no exception," recalls Casady in the liner notes for Always Comes Back. "I had been playing constantly from 1965-'72 as Jefferson Airplane, continuing on as Hot Tuna through 1977. Hot Tuna took a bit of a break and SVT was born of this period."

Originally gigging in 1978 as the Jack Casady Band, Casady alongside guitarist/vocalist Brian Marnell, keyboardist Nick Buck (also of Hot Tuna), and drummer Bill Gibson rebranded themselves as SVT the following year. The name came from Casady's bass rig, the Ampeg Super Vaccum Tube. A self-released debut single, "New Year"/"Wanna See You Cry," arrived on red vinyl in January 1979.

Additional studio time was booked to record more material. A demo cassette featuring the group's "Heart of Stone" caught the attention of a pair of radio deejays on local station KSAN-FM. "When I was in college," recalls Howie Klein, "I booked the Jefferson Airplane to play a concert at Stony Brook and got to know Jack way back then. Fast forward a dozen years or so and Chris Knab brought this cassette with the song 'Heart of Stone' to our late-night radio show. I remember that we played it three times in one night."

It was during this period that SVT earned its reputation as a tight, urgent, and LOUD rock 'n' roll unit. In October 1979, "Heart of Stone"/"The Last Word" would become one of the first singles released by 415 Records, the label launched by Klein and Knab. "Heart of Stone" signaled the departure of Gibson and the arrival in 1980 of new drummer Paul Zahl.

With Zahl on board, SVT released the seven-song Extended Play EP on 415 Records and successfully toured both the west and east coasts and the UK. The following year's No Regrets, the group's debut album for short-lived label Mutiny Shadow International, featured eleven originals by Marnell and found SVT slimmed down to a power trio of Marnell, Casady and Zahl. In his review for All Music Guide, writer Richard Foss called No Regrets "an appealing blast of West Coast new wave, with good songs played with blistering intensity." Despite the quality of the material, the group would split shortly after its release. Any hopes for a reunion were dashed in 1983 when Marnell died of long-term health complications.

Always Comes Back: The Authorized Recordings now compiles all the band's original run of recordings in one place. The double-vinyl LP, available June 3, 2022, also includes a trio of previously unreleased recordings by the Jack Casady Band that were not included on the CD release of Always Comes Back, including "Sex Attraction," a live show favorite, and "Snow Gorilla," an instrumental tour de force featuring Casady's innovative melodic bass playing.

"SVT was a special place and time," said Buck. "We came together quickly, we had camaraderie and a singular vision. We wanted to ROCK."

credits

released November 6, 2020

Brian Marnell--Guitars, Vocals
Nick Buck-Keyboards, Synthesizers, Vocals
Jack Casady-Bass
Bill Gibson-Drums, Vocals

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SVT San Francisco, California

SVT were a San Francisco based power pop/new wave band from the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. They are perhaps best remembered for their bassist Jack Casady, who had played in both Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Other members were singer Brian Marnell, drummer Bill Gibson (later of Huey Lewis and the News, replaced by Paul Zahl), and Nick Buck, also a Hot Tuna veteran on keyboards ... more

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