Vitamin Recordings 1981 Pink and Green Ecomix Vinyl Vinyl Finneas O'Connell

Finneas O'Connell

Confronted with the massive success of their first album

Since those heady beginnings

produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace (a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum) was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines

Vitamin Recordings 1981 Pink and Green Ecomix Vinyl Vinyl Finneas O'ConnellIt was 1979 when Boston teenagers Jason Shapiro and Mike McGlinchey saw the wide open door of punk as it turned to art punk and no wave, and scurried straight in. Shapiro was 14. McGlinchey was only a few years older. Neither had played an instrument for long when Vitamin formed. Eventually, violinist Margie Politzer and drummer Chris Gill joined to complete the line up. Inspired by the no wave impulse to tear rock apart and build something new from