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Now unfortunately relegated to footnote position, England’s Fingerprintz were mostly of the bands that lent trustworthiness towards the marketing-inspired expression “fresh wave.” Produced by Scottish-born vocalist/guitarist Jimmie O’Neill in 1978, the ‘Printz slowed up punk’s careening electric guitar rock, adding smart, rhythmic twists and transforms, and providing up deftly created …

The principle engineer at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit, Jim Gemstone has played an instrumental role in the evolution from the city’s R&B. Although he’s performed bass in the Dirtbombs, baritone 12-string electric guitar using the Witches, and body organ with his very own music group, Jim Diamond’s Pop Monsoon, he’s …

Scottish singer/songwriter and producer Jimmie O’Neal 1st appeared in the past due ’70s with Fingerprintz, an eclectic band that documented for Virgin from 1979 to 1981 and in addition released an album for Stiff. O’Neal created and co-wrote a lot of Jacqui Brookes’ 1984 LP Sob Tales, and then shaped …