Ya know, with a goofy ass name like Channel 3, you’d think we’d have a nice corner on the market.

But no.

Go ahead and Google Channel 3, and you’re gonna get 5 pages of stupid local news anchors before you get to your heroes. Fuck, we should’ve just named the band Meagan Fox or Free Viagra for all the good it does us on the ol search engines. But when you narrow down to the music acts, it’s come to our attention that there are several ways to do CH3! Let’s take a look at just a few of our current favorites, shall we?

Here we have the mighty CH3, but wha… wha? Oh, it’s the French rap group CH3, silly! These guys look like they mean business (or bidness), so we’ll not have our lawyer Saul get on em with the usual cease and desist. Besides, we’re hoping to meet up with these b boys in Paris this Summer to share a cassoulet and trade Tshirts!!
CH3

This guy I like. He apparently makes music with his Nintendo DS–why the hell didn’t we think of that? Lugging Marshall half stacks around the country these last 25 years!!
This mystery man from Virginia doesn’t make his face known, he only seems to rule his empire from behind a Pokeman character facade. Again, why didn’t we think of it first?!
Channel 3

These seem like good kids. But I can just imagine the hell they’re gonna run into when they start touring and all the drunken punk rockers come out and demand to hear Manzanar, goddamnit!! I see they are available to play graduation parties too. I assume they’ll work cheaper than we do, but hey– give us a call and we’ll crunch some numbers!Channel 3

Here’s my personal favorite, the CH3 compound—-alright, don’t start writing in to remind us that there is no actual compound CH3. Duh! This is the methyl group in organic chemistry. For instance you would say : CH3Cl is methyl chloride
or chloromethane.

But you knew that already! Cheers-M

So our good pals at TKO decided the time is right to release all of the old demos on vinyl. The demand for this type of product escapes me personally, but I guess there are some record geeks out there that will not rest until they have the original ska version of I Got A Gun from the 1980 sessions.

What we need is an album cover that conveys the innocence and energy of the time. I liked this shot, but we thought better of using it. Seems as though half of the guys in the photo are Huntington Beach cops now, so we don’t really want to go there…..

Here’s a nice photo. We used to practice at the old Vent-a-Hood warehouse on Valley View, and you can see the boxes of model # Sm-891 R SS behind us in the photo. Oh man, if I only had one of those babies now, I’d be complete! Anyway, this is no good either, as it shows Larry Kelley and Mike Burton, the original rhythm section. They might get the wrong idea and do something silly like expect payment!!

Now, this is great. This photo was actually taken at the old Strabaj studio in Norwalk, an actual photo from our first ever recording session. Can you feel the giddy excitement? Oh, you kids sit in your bedrooms now with your Apple G4’s and whip out take after take of your whiny little emo tunes, but back then the recording studio was a fuckin cathedral!!! The tape is rolling boys, money is burning, get to work!!!! We were quite pleased with this pic until someone noticed how completely ghey we look here. Heh. That’s not very punk rock, now is it?

OK, enough. We’ll be sitting here all week looking for the right pic, so let’s just close our eyes and pick one out of the ol box o memories that Kimm brought down from the attic. Goddamn good thing Kimm had the presence of mind to hold on to all this old stuff. Me, I only have one flyer from Ichabods and one cassette from the Enigma days. And it’s Tex and the Horseheads.

But hey—-not bad, eh? What we got here is a nice punky shot from the Eastern Front festival in the Bay area, I wanna say 1982? It’s good and snotty, we look young and thin enough, nobody is going to sue anybody over this one. (Unless the drummer Jack gets froggy–but that’s what photo shop is for!) The CH3 demo album to be released by