LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The GTO's began as a bunch of wildly outrageous girls who frequented the Sunset Strip in LA and hung out with the bands that performed in the area during the late 1960s, f.i. the Magic Band and Mothers Of Invention. They first became the Cherry Sisters and then a spontaneous performance-art collective known as the Laurel Canyon Ballet Company. Two members were also babysitters in the Zappa household This may explain why Zappa, in 1969, produced the group, as one of his side projects. By then they had dchanged its name to GTO's, an acronym for Girls Together Outrageously. 'Permanent Damage' co-features a number of renowned musicians who happened to hang around in the LA 'freak scene' during the time.

Track listing:

• The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady
• Miss Pamela And Miss Sparky Discuss Stuffed Bras And Some Of Their Gym Class Experiences
• Who's Jim Sox?
• Kansas And The BTO's
• The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes
• Wouldn't It Be Sad If There Were No Cones?
• Do Me In Once And I'll Be Sad, Do Me In Twice And I'll Know Better (Circular Circulation)
• The Moche Monster Review
• TV Lives
• Rodney
• I Have A Paintbrush In My Hand To Color A Triangle (Mercy's Tune)
• Miss Christine's First Conversation With The Plaster Casters Of Chicago
• The Original GTO's
• The Ghost Chained To The Past, Present, And Future (Shock Treatment)
• Love On An Eleven Year Old Level
• Miss Pamela's First Conversation With The Plaster Casters Of Chicago
• I'm In Love With The Ooo-Ooo Man