UZI - Sleep Asylum (1986)

UZI (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1983-1987) ◆ pre–Live Skull, Come, Dangerous Birds, 7 or 8 Worm Hearts ◆ Reissue of 1986 release, recorded between Fall 1984 and Fall 1985 ◆ CD reissue 1993, Includes previously unreleased track 'Underneath'.
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- Thalia Zedek - guitar, vocals
- Bob Young - guitar, backing vocals
- Dave Shibler - bass on #1,4
- Randy Barnwell - bass on #2,3,5,6
- Danny Lee - drums, backing vocals
- Phil Milstein - tape
Matador Records / OLE 073-2
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Uzi was a ten-handed combo that burned briefly but brightly in the fertile post-Burma Boston music scene of the mid-1980's. Its founding members were drummer Danny Lee and guitarist/singer/lyricist Thalia Zedek. The basic stylistic conflict between Thalia's garage-based rock 'n' roll background and Danny's more high-tech, modernistic approach gave the group much of its unique edge and led, as well, to its early demise.
Lee and Zedek were joined in late 1983 by bassist Randy Barnwell, guitar-effects whiz Bob Young, and tape specialist Phil Milstein. Barnwell was replaced by Craig Federhen for a brief basement interlude, but returned before Uzi's first show and continued with them for the bulk of the band's duration.