Lexicon Devil

The EP has three tracks: "Lexicon Devil" (Crash and Smear, 2:06), "Circle One" (Crash, 1:48) and "No God" (Crash and Smear, 1:54). Geza X produced and engineered it, his debut and Slash's, in a studio under a bank building on Hollywood Boulevard, and it cost Slash $600. Smear had no amp, because Geza X forgot to lend one, so he plugged his guitar through effects pedals into the mixing board, which shaped the sound. Nicky Beat played drums, uncredited on the sleeve, since Bolles had auditioned but had not learned the songs; Bolles and Pat Delaney added backing vocals and handclaps on "No God". About 1,000 copies were pressed, mostly sold by mail order through the Slash fanzine, in four sleeve colors: pink, yellow, red and gold. The front uses Hubert Lanzinger's painting The Standard Bearer and the back a 1942 anti-fascist cartoon by Arthur Szyk; Slash refused to print a band-proposed ad using Nazi imagery. It was reissued on the 1981 EP What We Do Is Secret, the 1993 (MIA) anthology and a Record Store Day edition in 2017.