From the blurb in the Big Gold Dreams box set, where, once again, today’s offering can be found.
mp3: The Dragsters – I’m Not An American (1987)
“The Dragsters formed in Greenock with a line-up of, ahem, Vince Van Yak on vocals, guitarists Roky Mountain and Lestat, bass player Fabian McDonald and drummer Marvyn Rammpp. Their power-punk guitar pop was honed in live sets featuring covers of Boys by The Shirelles and Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones, and fitted perfectly in with an Edinburgh scene of DIY bands who had more line-up changes than a football team. In keeping with this, The Dragsters’ first single, Albino, was co-produced by Shop Assistants guitarist David Keegan, with backing vocals provided by Margarita Vasquez Ponte of Jesse Garon and The Desperadoes/Fizzbombs fame. For this third effort, Van Yak and Co. did it themselves, but they still sounded as if they’d been transplanted from a 1960’s cellar bar.”
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
I do like me a bit of The Dragsters. I only have two singles 1 and 3 – why didn’t I buy single 2? I dunno!?
I always thought they were part of the Greenock scene? Or is that ‘they where from Greenock’ but fitted into the Edinburgh scene.
Flimflamfan
Cheers fff.
I think the inference from the Big Gold Dreams booklet is very much a Greenock-band who were a perfect fit for all that was going on in Edinburgh at that particular time…..and judging by this particular song, it’s a reasonable position to take!
I still have this 7″ which has a cool fold out sleeve full of top notch unlicensed photos. Classic mid-80s indie vibe. Saw them once in Edinburgh at the Hoochie Coochie Club. This track and Albino were good tunes. Greenock’s finest.