Live on Australian Radio - 7" (Hook or Crook)

According to Goner: "John Schooley and his One Man Band captured live on Australian radio, the righteous wall of slide-guitar noise, drums, and voice sounding amazing."

Thanks A Lot, Shithead - 7" (Dropkick)

The Hard Feelings back up Spike Penetrator of the legendary Syracuse, New York Penetrators on a DOUBLE seven-inch. Four new songs penned by Spike that capture that “Kings of Basement Rock” sound and feel. Funny, rockin’, angry, and stupid. With probably the funniest, ugliest, stupidest cover art you’ve ever seen, in pure “Kings of Basement Rock” fashion. After recording this, the Hard Feelings went on to back up Spike and Jack Lipton and perform as the Penetrators at the Horizontal Action Chicago Blackout 2003. Rich Stanley of Dropkick was diagnosed with kidney cancer right when he was pressing it up, so only 150 copies were ever made. This makes it the rarest of all Penetrators releases! Rich is feeling much better now, by the way.

Anytime I Want - 7" (Dropkick)

An earlier, sloppier version of a tune to later appear on the “You Won’t Like It…” LP. Trey fucks up quite nicely in the breakdown part in the middle. Recorded at Kingsnake Studio, AKA Dave Roybal’s basement, for minimum fidelity. B-side is a version of the Flamin’ Groovies tune “High Flyin’ Baby”.

Soul Party - 7" (Gearhead)

Glossy, silly, retro-inspired cover with band member’s goofy looking disembodied heads (ala 60’s R&B revue letter-pressed posters) contains gritty, nasty-assed covers of soul classics inside. Also recorded at Kingsnake for shit-sound supreme. Nathanial Mayer’s “Leave Me Alone” gets sped up and undone in superb fashion. Ultra-trashy take on Soloman Burke’s “Home In Your Heart” on the flip.

Smash Up Derby - CD (Gearhead)

Includes “Leave Me Alone” from the Gearhead single, along with a bunch of other bands who have stuff on Gearhead like the Hellecopters, New Bomb Turks, Donnas, etc.

Gas, Food, and Lodging - CD (1+2 Records, Japan)

We gave these guys a track from the sessions for the first LP, “Mad Dog”, back when we recorded it THREE YEARS (and three bass players) ago, and now it’s finally out. This cut is actually pretty good, it features Walter Daniels on sax, and it isn’t available anywhere else. Also includes songs by Das Boot, Frigg A Go Go, and a bunch of other bands.

Serve the Man - 7” (Crypt)

Schooley’s second release ever, with an incredibly nasty four-track sludge sound that will never be replicated. Using their parents old reel-to-reel recorders that hadn’t been cleaned in about 20 years, recorded in a record store basement. Schooley’s guitar sound was achieved by sitting his amp atop the toilet in the record store bathroom, and overdriving it with another, smaller, practice amp via the headphone jack. Eventually, the main amp blew up, but not before recording this mess. A classic.

We Told You Not to Cross Us” - LP/CD (Crypt)

Somehow this record has developed a cult following that just won’t die, to the point where, seven years after the fact, putting “ex-Revelators” after Schooley’s name is still common on Hard Feelings posters and reviews. Dr. Filth of the website whizzkid1.com sums up the enduring appeal of this record with the extremely ugly cover, even by Crypt standards:

Probably the finest white rock and roll album ever released out of Missouri. This garage trio had all the necessary components to be successful, but their timing was off. In the current garage rock revival climate, they would be positively huge - their catchy songs and completely committed attack are well beyond most current bands, and their sense of melody and roots gives the listener more to chew on than the average recycled 60s bands back from the grave. Blues roots and guitar skills as deep as Jack White, good looking singer and cutie pie drummer, and a guitarist who managed to sound like a whole band and wore an expression that looked like he was ready to hit the people in the first row over the head with his guitar at any moment. Hilarious, intense, well sequenced great songs played, sung, and drummed (or howled, wailed, and pounded, if you believe the Crypt label promo staff) by three college age lunatics with too many Headcoats and Linky Wray records, drunk on the promises of rock and roll liberation some foolish local record store owner fed them to sell a couple more copies of "Tapping the Source". From the opening assault on Sonny Burgess to the closing commercial for this very website, they rip off everyone from Elvis Costello to Billy Boy Arnold, scream about pinball, unemployment, farmin', and gentrification, and make grotesque feedback noises with and without slide guitar. And in "Don't Look At Me When I'm Looking At You" they created one of the all time great head scratcher rock and roll anthems, a post modern "Surfin' Bird" for a deeply misanthropic society -- the monster hit the White Stripes just can't seem to write. If you buy only one release from whizzkid1...

The Revelators with Walter Daniels -7” (Sympathy For the Record Industry)

Schooley’s long and fruitful association with Walter and Mariconda began with this single, recorded in Austin while the Revelators were on tour. Billy Boy Arnold tune “Rockinitis” on the a-side, Johnny Horton tune “Ol’ Slew Foot” on the flip. Sloppy, outta control, nasty. I remember at the time the numb-nut reviewer at Maximum Rock n’ Roll said it sounded like Sonic Youth. A blueprint of what was to come.

Let A Poor Boy Ride” - LP (Never released)

The “lost album”, recorded in Austin at Sweatbox with Bill Randt, then of the New Bomb Turks, in the drummer’s seat. Band imploded scant weeks after the recordings were completed. Pretty fucking good, never heard by anybody, Tim Warren is still sitting on the tapes. Email Crypt and tell ‘em to put it out!

Various Artists, “Landlocked and Loaded” CD (Trouble in River City)

This comp of St. Louis-area garage rock features two unreleased Revelators tracks from the sessions for the first LP. “Pot Smokin’ Pussy” Tim Warren didn’t wanna release for fear of offending pot-head garage rock record buyers. “Baby Doll” is a cover from the Sin Alley rockabilly comp, which Tim felt had been “covered too much” by other bands, even tho’ I can’t think of any other bands that have done it and this version would smoke their ass anyway. Both cuts are up to par with the stuff on “We Told You Not To Cross Us”. 27 tracks total, with some other decent cuts and some cuts by bands best forgotten as soon as possible. And in a career filled with bad cover art, this cd has perhaps the worst cover art of anything in Schooley’s catalog. True Revelators fans must own one. Copies still available from Kopper at www.garagepunk.com

South Filthy - "You Can Name It Yo Mammy If You Wanna..." CD (Sympathy For the Record Industry)

For a switch, Schooley plays guitar on one of Walter's records. This "all star" session, with Walter Daniels, Jack Oblivian, Jeff Evans, and Mike Buck, features Schooley laying down some acoustic slide (mixed way down low) on the Jefferey Lee Pierce tune "L.A. County Jail".