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    Visit the Certain General MySpace page. View photos from October '08 performances in Philadelphia and New York. New "Will You" CD Single available for purchase through  Contains one song "Will You" from the Invisible New York 2CD plus "Susie's Waiting" and "Sympathy". Purchase Certain General CDs online. Take the Certain General Quiz and learn more about this New York band's history. Read the article about Certain General "The Invisible Band of NY" from trakmarx.com. Check back soon...  Parker Dulany - Philadelphia 
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 Parker and Lauren photo: geoff hall | myspace.com/geoffotos  Parker and Anthony photo: geoff hall | myspace.com/geoffotos View more photos from October '08 performances in Philadelphia and New York. 
All My Movies Promotional video. More Certain General videos on the audio/video page. OUT NOW - New 2CD Compilation of Recordings 1981-2004 Invisible New York  Available this September on Easy Action (U.K.) records. Contains music from the band's career as well as previously unreleased material. Booklet notes by Kris Needs and Parker Dulany. The 2-CD set features over 40 tracks charting the group's career from their earliest 1981 demos and 82's Holiday Of Love EP, through album tracks including live and alternative versions plus live material from the original lineup when it reunited in 2003 to play a gig at NY's Public Theatre. There's also some toxic collaborations with David Lynch chanteuse Julee Cruise, including a defiant post-9/11 version of 'New York New York' with Patti Smith's guitarist Lenny Kaye. Click here for more info...
Review of Invisible New York from September 2007 Mojo 2-CD set of cult New York post-punkers from 1981 demos to 2004 reunionReview of Invisible New York from December 2007 Sound Judgement Between 1980 and 86, Danceteria on 21st Street was a focal point and embodiment of the vibrant musical cross-pollination going on in New York City at that time. While hiphop, electro and disco boomed out on the upper three floors, East Village group Certain General were almost house band in the ground level live room, a heady blend of sex-charged atmospherics, skeletal art-funk and beautiful pop songs which, by '83-'84 had made them leading figures on the downtown music scene, a tone point recording for Hilly Kristal's CBGB's label. For some reason, whenever NY's post-punk scenes gets written about, it's always the same groups who get mentioned, like ESG, the Contortions and Konk. Certain General have been like the invisible band, hence the title of this double CD aimed at redressing the balance as it ropes together some of their finest moments from the early 80s through to their 21st century reunion. The combination of Parker Dulany's evocative vocals and Phil Gammage's psychedelic surf guitar onslaughts still sounds intoxicating, gripping and often magnificent on songs like 'Voodoo Taxi' and 'Maximum G'. Exclusive! Previously Unvailable New Songs. 
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"Formed in the East Village in 1980 by Georgia-born/New Orleans-raised painter-turned-singer Parker DuLany with Texan guitarist Phil Gammage and rhythm section Russell Berke and Marcy Saddy, the early Certain General aimed at being 'a pop version of the Contortions'. James Chance clearly influences the jerky punk-funk of 1981's "Touch" but 1982's "Hello My God" owes more to the Doors and the Velvet Underground, and by the mid-80s with new bassist Joe Lupo they were dealing in thumping psychedelia ["Voodoo Taxi"].