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Wino Wednesday: Lost Breed Covers “Iron Horse (Born to Lose)” on Wino Daze Demo, 1989

Fact: This post is late because I wanted to wait until I got home because I wanted to look in the liner notes to confirm what I thought the timeline on recording the demo was. Sad, but true.Aside from what seems to be a genre-exclusive perpetuation of the “daze/days” play on words (see also Trouble and Pentagram), the Wino Daze demo from Los Angeles-based doom rockers Lost Breed fascinates because it both rocks and has an interesting place in the career timeline of Scott “Wino” Weinrich. The demo was recorded in 1989, and though it wouldn’t be released until it was compiled with non-Wino live tracks by Helltown Records in 2007, it managed to capture Wino right at the cusp of leaving Saint Vitus following the release and touring for V in 1990 and reviving The Obsessed for their ’90s run.

According to the liner notes for the Wino Daze reissue, the tracks on that demo were recorded in a break before Vitus picked back up for recording V, and it was understood in the band that, unless they got signed and really took off (a pretty popular caveat, as I hear it), the situation was temporary. And although Lost Breed put out two full-lengths on Hellhound Records — those being The Evil in You and Me (1993) and Save Yourself (1995) — before morphing into the band Vengeance Brothers, plagued by an inability to hold a stable lineup, they went through six singers and never were able to have the kind of impact they perhaps otherwise might have. Wino Daze wound up as their most enduringly relevant material.

The cover of Motörhead‘s “Iron Horse (Born to Lose)” was left off the 2007 version of Wino Daze, but Weinrich made it a highlight of his 2010 acoustic album, Adrift, so it’s pretty clear the song has stuck with him over the years. Easy to hear why in listening.

Happy Wino Wednesday:

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One Response to “Wino Wednesday: Lost Breed Covers “Iron Horse (Born to Lose)” on Wino Daze Demo, 1989”

  1. Spyder says:

    Lost Breed was Awesome!!

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