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 CD Presents is a EU-based recording label that specializes in promoting, recording and distributing punk music and alternative music that is now owned by Buried Treasure Inc.[1] The label was founded and has been managed by David Ferguson who established CD Presents as a concert promotion enterprise in 1979.[citation needed] Ferguson had earlier in the 1970s promoted shows for notable theatre performance and pre-punk acts such as The Cockettes, Iggy Pop, and the New York Dolls.[citation needed] As head of CD Presents, Ferguson produced concerts for some of the most influential artists of the punk rock era, including the The Avengers, X, and the the Germs.[citation needed] Most notably, Ferguson and CD Presents produced the West Coast leg of Public Image Ltd's first two American tours, the first of which featured a seismic confrontation over rights to promote PiL's 1980 San Francisco concert pitting Ferguson and PiL against powerhouse promoter Bill Graham.[2][3][not in citation given] In addition to PiL, Ferguson would work with several influential bands of the U.S. punk music movement.[citation needed] CD Presents arranged shows in L.A. and San Francisco for the The Weirdos, The Dils, The Avengers, The Go-Gos and D.O.A.[citation needed] Two bands especially critical to the development of West Coast punk, The Germs and X, gained prominence thanks to Penelope Spheeris's, The Decline of Western Civilization, a groundbreaking concert documentary filmed in part at CD Presents-sponsored shows in Los Angeles.[original research?][citation needed] Ferguson and CD Presents also promoted New Wave 1980, the first ever punk music concert which gathered together West Coast punk and alternative music acts from as far away as Vancouver.[citation needed] Ferguson created the studio part of the CD Presents umbrella in 1981.[citation needed] A number of West Coast punk and hardcore bands would record at the studio throughout the 1980s.[cite this quote] In 1984, CD Presents released The Offs acclaimed First Record album -- an album for which Ferguson commissioned painter Jean Michel Basquiat to design the now-legendary cover.[not in citation given][4]In addition to punk bands, CD Presents embraced a broad range of musical artists throughout the 1980s and '90s: NOFX (White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean), electronic music pioneers, Moev, and Gospel artists affiliated with Emmit Powell, legendary broadcaster and founder of the Gospel Elites. Even songwriters/artists known for having a more standard rock sound gained indispensable early experience at the San Francisco studio; R.E.M. and Chris Isaak, recorded their first demos there.[cite this quote] In the 1980s, CD Presents cemented its legacy as a flagship in the hardcore punk and alternative world by releasing three volumes of singles recorded by groups found on the label's roster. Known as the Rat Music for Rat People compilations, these three seminal recordings would exert a potent influence on a number of contemporary punk and, later, post-punk musicians, including a young Kurt Cobain: “In 1984 a friend of mine named Buzz Osborne (Melvins’ singer/guitarist) gave me a couple of compilation tapes (Rat Music for Rat People Vol. I & II) with Black Flag and Flipper, everything, all the most popular punk rock bands, and I was completely blown away," remembered Cobain, in a 1993 interview published posthumously.[not in citation given] "I’d finally found my calling. That very same day, I cut my hair short. I would lip sync to those tapes—I played them every day—and it was the greatest thing.”
The CD Presents label also signed and promoted Billy Bragg's first two records, Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy and Brewing Up with Billy Bragg.[cite this quote] In 1983, the label released a compilation of The Avengers' material popularly known as The Pink Album.[6] In the late 1980s, Ferguson turned his focus more toward distribution. The distribution division of CD Presents, Buried Treasure Inc., eventually distributed the catalogs for nearly 100 independent record labels, creating a record distribution system that operated independent from that of major record labels.[citation needed] Either through the label or through its distribution system, CD presents recorded or distributed the music of nearly 3,300 artists, including The Avengers, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag w/Henry Rollins, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Flipper, D.O.A., Butthole Surfers, NOFX, T.S.O.L., Minutemen, and Mojo Nixon.[not in citation given][7] Starting in 2004, Ferguson began restoring CD Presents' extensive recording archives at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch with the help of Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Leslie Ann Jones and her assistant, Dann Thompson. The restoration was completed in early 2008.[7][not in citation given]
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