During the 1970s, Greg worked for Sire Records, and was instrumental in the signing of The Flamin' Groovies, a band that he also managed for a couple of years.
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In addition, Greg was known as a record collector, archivist, and historian, and started the "Pebbles" series in the early-1980s, a project inspired by Lenny Kaye's 1972 Nuggets reissue.
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Bomp! Records was a LA record store for a couple of years, as well as one of the first independent distributors in the U.S.
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Bomp featured many writers who would later become prominent, including Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Richard Meltzer, and Ken Barnes.
With Greg Shaw he was instrumental in launching the influential music fanzine Who Put The Bomp.
Perhaps the most influential of the fanzines to cross over from science fiction fandom to rock and, later, punk rock and new wave music was Greg Shaw's Who Put the Bomp, founded in 1970.
Following the demise of the Dead Boys in 1979, Bators began a tumultuous relationship with Bomp! Records and its president, Greg Shaw.
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Their final comment – "The Miles Ends from Phoenix are a personal favorite" – is evidently an opinion held by Greg Shaw himself.