BEAKERS, THE: bio

The Beakers were a hack fit of four Seattle art-bashing funk wave arbiters who skronked into action Jan. 1980 and expired in Jan. 1981. In between they toured up and down the west coast, playing shows with Delta 5 and Gang of Four, and recorded several times, releasing a 45 and songs on some compilations. In 2004 K released an anthology of all there recordings. The majority of the 17 songs on Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution [KLP163] have never been released before; the handful that were once available are now long out of print. The four Beakers - George Romansic, drums, Mark H. Smith, guitar and vocals, Jim Anderson, sax and vocals, and Frankie Sundsten, bass - were an abrupt, powerful force on the Seattle musical scene, who through the force of their personalities and charmingly abrasive music made that town quake, dance and smile