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Binky Philips & The Planets To Release Debut Record After 47 Years
By: Kaitlin Milligan Mar. 25, 2019
As amazing as it sounds, NYC rock legends Binky Philips & The Planets after 47 years will be releasing their debut album "Established 1972 NYC" on April 26th! David Fricke of Rolling Stone once described the band as "the best rock & roll band I never saw or heard."
The history of The Planets:
May 7th, 1972: Binky Philips names his just-formed band The Planets...
December 19th, 1972: The Planets debut opening for The New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center...
July 13th, 1973: The Planets share the bill with KISS at the Hotel Diplomat...
May 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1975: The Planets open for The Ramones at CBGB...
November 16th, 1977: The impending deal with Warner Brothers Records falls apart after six months of negotiations. Thus bestowing on The Planets in the heyday of the CBGB/Max's Kansas City explosion of talent as... The Only Band That Didn't Get Signed. In fact, The Planets, to this day, are minor legends for just that reason.
For all these years, Binky has kept The Planets together. Yes, there have been plenty of personnel changes over the decades, but, there has always been a band called The Planets playing somewhere in New York City since December, 1972.
After decades as The Planets, the band has had to change its name to Binky Philips & The Planets. Why? Well, there are over 25 other bands on the internet called The Planets nowadays. Binky's band had to make sure everyone found the REAL Planets when searching for their music.
Nowadays, Binky Philips & The Planets have a residency at the club, Arlene's Grocery, on the Lower East Side. The band has been playing there at least once a month for over three years and counting.
In August, 2017, The Planets started working with producer JZ Barrell on what improbably is their debut album after more than 45 years in the game. The ten tracks on the album are all written by Binky Philips between 2014 and 2017.
Says Binky, "Over many years, I have written about ten albums worth of songs. None of them ever got past the demo stage. Perhaps, rightly so. It's fitting that The Planets' first ever true full-blown-production album, 'Established 1972 NYC', is comprised of the best songs I have ever written. The brand of music we play could be called Unhyphenated Rock. It's straight up. It's hard. It's real. We are not Pop. We are not Metal. We are not Punk. We are not Retro. We are Rock & Roll."
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