0007 - 3D Picnic

3D Picnic (also known as 3-D Picnic and Three D. Picnic) aren't the first band I've written about that I didn't know anything about beforehand, but they are the first about whom there seems to be very little information readily available.  What I believe I know is this:

They were active in LA in the late 80s and early 90s and released 3 albums, Dirt, Sunshine & Cockroaches and covers collection New Wave Party;

They were fronted by Dallas Don Burnet, who at some point was also a member of the rather better known (albeit still obscure) Thelonius Monster.

At first, I was actually unsure whether New Wave Party was an album by the same band, so far removed does it appear to be from the dark, at times almost goth, rocking sounds of the three songs I have by the band.

My uncertainty was only overcome when I found an LA Times review of a November 1991 live show by the band where they played a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls, track 2 from the album.

While I have nothing from New Wave Party, I do have one song each from first album Dirt - Dizzy, which sounds like I'd like to imagine a fairground carousel run by Anthrax would - and follow-up Sunshine & Cockroaches - Murdermaid, which is kind of reminiscent of the Afghan Whigs in a meets-the-Addams-Family kind of way.

I think that had I known 3D Picnic back in the day, I would have really liked them. As it is, I'm intrigued enough that I've ordered a second-hand copy of Dirt from Amazon, which is currently winging its way to me from New York.

The one other song I have pre-dates Dirt and is from an (I think...) LA rock compilation called Ultraviolet. In Their Eyes is also the only thing I can find by the band online:

While it's not a bad song, I do think it's the weakest of the three I have.  Ah well.