The Bad Brains vinyl reissue campaign continues, and we’ve got an exclusive new variant of the punk icons’ 1997 EP The Omega Sessions. Our new pressing is on clear with black and white splatter vinyl, and limited to 300 copies. Pre-order yours HERE while they last.
The Omega Sessions features early versions of songs that appeared on later releases, including a reading of “I Against I,” and side B features a custom etching. We spoke to bassist Darryl Jenifer about the EP and more in 2021:
BV: The last reissue for now is The Omega Sessions which was recorded in 1980 but not released until 1997. What was the story with that? Why was that shelved for so long?
DJ: I think what happened with that is we had a manager in DC, one of our first managers, a guy by the name of Mo Sussman. He owned a restaurant on Connecticut Avenue or something, Capitol Hill. It was called Mo and Joe’s, which was high end, like Walter Cronkite and dudes like that were in there a bunch. Through a series of events that happened, he wound up wanting to manage us. So he got us into this studio back in DC, the popular Omega, it was the first recording studio. I don’t even know what’s on the record. I don’t even remember the sessions. I was probably 18 or 19, a teenager, being dragged around by my big brothers in this studio and these other people and the managers and what have you. I do know Omega Studios is a popular studio. I would assume the material on The Omega Sessions is our early stuff, same stuff that’s on the others. I’d say that it’s probably a different recording, I haven’t listened to it, to be honest with you.
Read the full interview HERE and pick up The Omega Sessions EP, along with more Bad Brains records, in the BV store.
