We first released "Pontification" in
the summer of the year 2000. Can't remember exactly what keep's the ball
rolling back then. Maybe it was Peter who was going in contact with Martin
King of the band a couple of years earlier. What i remember is that i met
with Guy Lovelady of Ugly Man Records on an rather cold spring day in the
year 2000. We had some great conversations in a bar nearby the Kurfürstendamm.
Beside the master CD he passed me over the first recordings by the Vermont
Sugar House. What a lovely day it was !
“Pontification“ became a big fan-favourite, 1500 copies of the album
were pressed, another 500 vinyl copies were done exclusively for Vinyl
Japan. Most of the cds were sold abroad. In the early days of Firestation
Records we worked shortime with an german distribution company which name i
have forgotten a long time ago. We passed them over 200 copies of the album
with the result that we never ever received any payment from them. The
company broke down a year later, so somewhere in germany there still should
be some boxes of the original “Pontification“ release, as we never
received the cds back from them. We run out of copies of the album in 2001.
Over the years many new fans came by and asked for it. Gladly a couple of
years ago Martin and his mates found some unreleased songs. So what to do
which such brilliant material ? On the first there was the plan to release a
two track 7“ single with both unreleased songs. After a longtime
discussion at Firestation head quarter we decided to make some kind of
“Deluxe Edition“ of an long out of stock album. Without a doubt, it's
more than worth to do !
Now we have “Pontification Plus“ an new edition of this classic album
with an brand new artwork and four bonustracks, three of them unreleased
elsewhere !
“Skin Deep“ would have made a classic third single for the band, so
we're more than proud to present it to you here on this special release !
