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The Last website has moved
to www.laexplosion.com
- please update your bookmarks. This is the old version of our
site and will eventually disappear.
What a great turnout at Brennan's
Pub last month! If you missed it, or want to relive it, I'm happy
to announce that the Last will be playing at Safari Sam's (in Hollywood) on Sunday, Feb
18th!
The lineup will be:
Joe Nolte (lead guitar/vocals)
Mike Nolte (vocals)
Vitus Matare (keyboards)
Steve Andrews (guitar)
John Rosewall (bass)
John Frank (drums)
Check out the gigs
page for details. Hope to see you there!
Work continues on getting the
latest Last album released, which should be followed by a proper
tour. For those who came-in
late, Bill
Stevenson and Karl Alvarez (of Descendents/All fame) joined The Last in
2004, making the current lineup:
Joe Nolte: guitar, vocals
Mike Nolte: keyboards, vocals
Luke Lohnes: guitar
Karl Alvarez: bass
Bill Stevenson: drums
Joe still has copies of the
"Joe and Mike" CD available for purchase. This
acoustic collection of various songs (previously unreleased by
the Last) is not available anywhere else. Songs include Difference,
Someday I'll Have You, Rain Town, Everywhere, Goodbye, The Other
Side, Day Girl, A Part of Your Soul (Pallbearer), Nearly Dead,
You Walk Into a Room, and It All Comes Down.
Joe also has other selected
Last merchandise available, such as Last stickers, but you'll
need to email him directly to find out exactly what he has. See
contact info on the left of this page.
In 2003, the Last re-released
their 1979 debut album "L.A. Explosion" for
the first time on CD, via Bomp
Records. It's been over 20 years, but this "new"
CD got a lot of good reviews in the press! You can check out
some of them in the Reviews Section.
This was followed a couple
of years later by the CD release of the long out-of-print compilation
album Warfrat
Tales. This 1983 compilation features The Last,
plus a lot of other similar underground bands of the time, including
The Rain Parade, The Gun Club, Wednesday Week,
To Damascus, The Leaving Trains, 100 Flowers/The
Urinals, The Question, The Earwigs, Hector
& the Clockwatchers, The Point and The Up &
Out.
This CD features some bands
that were not on the original vinyl release, and loads of bonus
tracks, including The Last's previously unreleased recording
of "Anything That's Out There."
More news when it happens.
For more up-to-date info on the progress of things, keep your
eyes on our Forum, where you'll also find excerpts from
Joe and Mike's personal journals from the 70s and
80s, plus Joe's daily entries of what went on during the recording
of their latest record in Colorado and great pictures and recollections
from Vitus Matare! Joe, Mike, Vitus and other former Last members
regularly post, and are usually there to answer your every question.
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