Rittenhouse squared

By request, here’s an update on a post I did a while back.

Rittenhouse Square was a short lived band that featured Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple and Bobby Locke. The band formed sometime in 1971, played a few shows, recorded some songs and then broke up in 1972.

Without the other members knowledge, Locke pressed up 100 copies of an EP containing 6 Rittenhouse Square songs on his R-Squared Records in 1972. The record was packaged in a paper sleeve. Peter Holsapple says the record is a “considered a collector’s item by people that have obviously never heard it”. I think it’s pretty good.

Related: Holsapple’s next band was called Little Diesel. Future dB Will Rigby was the drummer in the band. They really were a much better band than Rittenhouse Square. Chris Stamey recorded some songs and the band released an 8-track tape. There were only twenty tapes made at the time but Telstar Records just released a CD. I like it too.