A1. Buzzsaw - Die Rote Luft
A2. The Bux - Dumb Holiday
A3. Satnam Puppets - 2
A4. Nothing Painted Blue - Caprice Cadillac
A5. Paste - Exercise 21
A6. Shoeface - Rollin' In the Dough
A7. Wckr Spgt - A Thousand Hail Mary's
B1. Franklin Bruno - Clean Needle
B2. Welfare - Welfare
B3. Halo - Around + Around
B4. Girlhole - Real Song
B5. Fip Placard - Song for Farah
B6. Jim Bishop - Part of, Not All of 2
What Does This Tape Sound Like?
Welcome to this, the first catalog number at Shrimper and a phenomenally fun introduction to all involved.
We start off Side A with a Buzzsaw track. If you're not familiar with Buzzsaw, expect strange noise and loud spoken parts. Both this and the Bux track listed next were compiled to CD comp-of-comps Abridged Perversion.
"Dumb Holiday" is The Bux, the pre-Refrigerator band of Allen and Dennis Callaci. On Abridged Perversion it's titled just "Holiday".
The Satnam Puppets song here is a muffled recording, enough to make out that there's a voice, guitar, drums, and some nice piercing feedback. Near the end, you can make out something like, "We're all Mormons up here..." All I know about Satnam Puppets is that Jim Coppola was involved.
The Nothing Painted Blue song opens with an audio recording about Cadillac, then goes into the song. "Caprice Cadillac" hasn't appeared on any other releases that I'm aware of. Since this tape is from 1990, I assume that's Michael Neelon on bass? NPB tracks where Franklin gets to really yell: always fun.
On the Paste track, you can faintly make out an audio recording saying "this is exercise 21" under the guitars & Dennis's trademark Paste singing.
Shoeface's track here "Rollin' In The Dough" also appears on the Waiting 7", but they appear to be two different recordings. I say "appears" because Shoeface were really on their game, and with my ear (nota bene: I do not have a great ear, especially for things that could be attributing to mixing/mastering) Bob's vocals are all I have to go on to pick up differences. When I line up the two recordings and speed-adjust this version, they're together on the intro, de-sync throughout the middle, then perfectly sync up again at the end of this version. So my assumption is, based on little verbal differences from Bob, these are distinct. Also, the 7" version has an extra ~42 seconds with more verses, after a quick pause, where the comp version instead cuts off.
The Wckr Spgt recording here is all-time. A thumping beat on the drum machine, churning guitar, and one of those recordings of Joel where he's coming in through slightly distorted and yelling. Perfect early Spgt stuff. To my knowledge, this recording has never been featured anywhere else, one of few songs not even hosted on Mark Givens' very thorough wckrspgt.com archives. A very different version appeared on The Charles Maison (but that's a Sonic Enemy release, so you know I don't have a physical copy) which you can listen to on the Spgt site's page for the Charles Mansion series. It's closer in spirit to the KSPC 10-06-1990 recording but still has its own appeal.
Side B kicks off with acoustic solo Franklin Bruno. "Clean Needle" is a great song, and was compiled on Abridged Perversion. Franklin would later re-record a jazzier version of the song for Kiss Without Makeup.
Welfare brings in some guitar noise. I'm told this was Nathan Wilson and someone else. Mike Masatsugu, possibly?
You know right away when Halo's drum machine kicks in. The song is listed as "Around + Around" here. "Around and Around" is the phrasing used for the 1991 re-recording on Alloy, where it leads off the album.
Girlhole delivers a fun little song. "I'm lost / I hate my boss". A sentiment that endures, truly...
Fip Placard was a Bunce project, I believe, but it's one I don't know much about. Rick Bunce at least was involved, and would contribute to future Shrimper comps as Goosewind.
The Jim Bishop track at the end here is for all you fans of harsh noise, among whom I count myself.
If anyone could let me know who all was involved in Fip Placard, Girlhole, and Satnam Puppets, and any biographical info, I'd be very appreciative...
Other Jim Bishop releases may have been just Nathan Wilson and Tom Duda?
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