Gee, Our First Album

Gee, Our First Album is the first studio album by the American pop and rock band The Rock-afire Explosion. It was originally released in August 1982 on Creative Records, a Polymer Records imprint.

Production and recording
The album was recorded in 12 weeks in 1981 in Auckland, New Zealand at Stebbing Studios. The album was produced by Polymer Records Midwest promotions representative Artie Fufkin, since the band had no money to hire a professional producer. Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk engineered the album, but had Polymer put the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym in place of his after having to berate Beach Bear for "using a stupid voice." Three tracks, "Sal's Birthday", "Baseball", and "Satisfaction Medley" were recorded at the Auckland Civic Theatre using the Polymer Mobile Machine mobile recording studio, and were engineered by Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, who also used the Alan Smithee pseudonym. "Beatles Medley" was recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sir Denis Eton-Hogg, Polymer president at the time, as producer and recorder. Since the Rock-afire was "just a bunch of kids with cheap parents and musical instruments and equipment found in pawn shop dumpsters", Nigel and the other two leading members of Spinal Tap paid for the flights and studio cost for the Rock-afire, confident that the band would become famous.

The recording sessions were a source of frustration for everyone involved. Florian found the band unwilling to experiment or deviate from their early demonstrations of recorded songs. Beach Bear stated in 1996 that "we were overtly resistant to that German weirdo's ideas. His band Kraftwerk made up synth parts and really cool sounds for almost every part of the album, but we refused to use most of them, since we wanted '50's standards, not '50's standards being raped by Kraftwerk's standards while we watched from the sidelines and took photos."

Promotional music videos
Four music videos were produced for this album. "Little Sister" was mainly filmed at the Auckland Town Hall and showed Dook playing a 1979 Yamaha 9000 drumset while Beach Bear plays his red 1966 La Baye 2x4 "Six" electric guitar. Beach is seen singing into a Ronco Mr. Microphone wireless microphone, while Dook and Fatz use Vega microphones. An early version of the Tune Machine synthesizer is seen in this video, this one having 4 legs.

"Baseball" was filmed at a Little League ballpark in Alaska, and shows Beach Bear and Mitzi Mozzarella playing baseball.

"Light My Fire" shows Dook singing the song as he walks through De Wallen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. According to Dook, some prostitutes gave him odd looks as they filmed the video.

A video clip of the Rock-afire at Nigel Tufnel's daughter's birthday party was filmed to accompany "Sal's Birthday" and was used in performances of the song late in the band's era of performing at Showbiz dinner theaters.