Amulet

Founded in Evansville, IN, in the autumn of 1978, Amulet had been a hard rock and roll four-piece made up of singer Cliff Hill, guitarist Bob Becker, bassist Paul Skelton, and drummer John Becker, whose brief existence proceeded to go largely unchronicled beyond Midwestern edges, and underground ones at that. After trimming their tooth in local night clubs as a addresses band, Amulet started composing their personal materials, and by middle-1980 had created a repertoire they experienced was worth documenting for what would become their eponymous, self-produced debut recording. This included some amazing blue-collar Midwestern hard rock and roll (and a few much less astute detours into latent psychedelia and clumsy white-boy funk), and were able to drum up some curiosity from record brands — specifically hard rock-friendly Atlantic Information. However the bandmembers had been already around the outs with one another at that time, and ultimately verified their not-ready-for-prime-time condition by splitting up just like their effort was beginning to carry fruit. However, Amulet’s increasingly uncommon vinyl LP steadily grew in story among severe hard rock enthusiasts, prompting its eventual reissue twenty years later on by Texas-based Monster Information.