Red Christmas – Practice Volume 5 (HDV Records Tape #26)

Red Christmas
Practice Volume 5 (HDV Records Tape #26)
198? Heath Dog Violet Records

Mark Krischak
Paul Honescko
Jim Camp
Jerry Andrews

Side 1:

1. (Silent Night)
2. Close to Me
3. They’ll Never Know
4. Back in the Fight
5. Heal the Girl

Side 2:

1. Take My Life
2. Good Boy
3. (Holy is the Lord)
4. All Because of Love
5. Forgive & Forget
6. Home
7. (So Blind)
8. (track snippet)

This tape actually started off with the missing song from tape #8, and then the rest of the tape is this volume. Because the whole tape is bumped up one song, the last song I have was cut very short. So I have no idea what it is, or if there were any songs after it. As with other Mark Krischak bands, this one is also a catchy power pop alternative rock band. Song titles above were mostly taken from other Red Christmas releases, except for a couple like “All Because of Love” where the band mentions the name. A few I had to guess at – those are in parenthesis above. This is a bootleg recording of a practice, so there is chatter between songs, some songs cut short, some with mistakes, and some like ”Back in the Fight” that have extended jam sessions in them.