Just Water

Just Drinking water were one among numerous bands within the middle- to past due-’70s NY scene operating beyond the major-label recording contract program and barely documented in vinyl. Their music wasn’t as nonmainstream as many from the bands from the city’s punk/brand-new influx circuit, owing very much to Who-like power pop plus some even more conventional album-oriented rock and roll. It was just a little left from the era’s rock and roll mainstream, nevertheless, though few surely got to listen to it, the group’s result being limited by the 1977 LP The Riff and a somewhat punkish agreement of “Singin’ in the torrential rain” that was released as an individual and also got some airplay on industrial East Coast channels. Another album, Meet up with the Competition, was almost completed however, not released, the group splitting up by the end from the 1970s. The Riff, “Singin’ in the torrential rain,” the materials from Meet up with the Competition, and several studio room outtakes, demos, and live monitors are included on the 2007 three-CD compilation Downtown and Brooklyn: THE ENTIRE Recordings.