Spiffy: Secret
Tony Lombardo was in the Descendents for six years, ‘leaving after I Don’t Want to Grow Up’ was recorded. Fellow ex-Descendents member Ray Cooper joined Tony and Joel Bratton from All Day to create Spiffy. Spiffy released only 7″s to my knowledge. This 7″ ‘Secret’ is the other half of their discography. It has three catchy songs and is my favorite release of their short lived career. I believe this only had about two hundred and fifty releases on Elastic Records but I still see it pop up from time to time in record store. Do yourself a favor and pick it up if you like catchy Descendents, ALL, and Chemical People type stuff.
1. Secret
2. In The Mail
3. Make It
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Spiffy: Don’t Know
Tony Lombardo was in the Descendents for six years, ‘leaving after I Don’t Want to Grow Up’ was recorded. Fellow ex-Descendents member Ray Cooper joined Tony and Joel Bratton from All Day to create Spiffy. Spiffy released only 7″s to my knowledge. ‘Don’t Know’ is 50% of the bands discography, released in 1996 this contains two poppy upbeat tunes in the same vain as the Descendents. Spiffy is a band that has been slept on all these years, very underrated, I wish they would have put out more records. This was released on Junk Records and you can still find a copy floating around if you look, spend a couple bucks if you see it, you might be surprised at how much you enjoy this hidden gem.
1. Didn’t Know
2. Intensive Care Unit
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hey unclecritic – thanks for the pulling us out of the heap! I was the drummer in spiffy, and its nice to see that someone out there is still listening. Pick up these singles everybody!! (yeah, like I get royalties …)
Yeah Spiffy rules, should have been more stuff from the band.
Yeah, we kind of fell apart when Ray Cooper moved to Chicago
this sounds amazing, tony lombardo and ray cooper!, how can i get hold of any, is this the only release?
cheers
jimbo
I believe those are their only 2 records, wish they’d have done more.
Hey Jimbo –
Yes, those are the only two records that we did. You can get the secret release from Elastic records – they have a website, I think. The other one was released on Junk Records – they may still be around, I am not sure. I have also seen these on eBay
thanks
Joe
For the sake of complete disclosure, we did record another song during the same session that we never released – we felt as though it didn’t come out that great. I don’ think I even have a copy of it – I used to have an mp3 somewhere, but I don’t know where it is any more.
Oh man I would LOVE to get my hands on that. I’m sure even a not “great” Spiffy song is still pretty damn good.