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Here is something really nutty. I’m trying to remember more about this recording. There was a time in the early 1970s that I became interested in Jimi Hendrix, but not for long. That’s probably why this tape is unmarked. Anything that I create that has some resemblance to music, I’m usually somewhat embarrassed to present.
First of all It’s probably an insult to Jimi Hendrix. Secondly, I don’t read music and I am not a musician. The sound quality is similar to “Bicycle Horn Under Water,” and I think an early version of The Booper, modified to amplify and produce heavy distortion is involved. Also a dynamic microphone was placed inside or on the strings of my grandfather’s acoustic guitar. The guitar strings were struck or plucked with my fingers and I made noises and said words with my mouth.
I am quite sure this was recorded using my Norelco 1530 monaural cassette recorder. In addition, I don’t recall presenting this to Negativland or playing it on Over The Edge, so if a certain individual who may be holding his head and laughing by the name of Mark, feel free to correct me.
The tape with this recording
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGeez! Where you ahead of your time, or what?!
Sounds like some kind of lo-fi metal that you would hear nowadays. It kind of reminds me of Sunn0))) or some similar band.
I think if you handed this tape to your bandmates back then, it would’ve fundamentally changed Negativland as we came to knew it.
you know, in the middle of the recording, it sort of sounded like someone was being tortured. Also sounds like a NEU song….hmmm.
Some of those sounds remind me of sounds found on the earliest recordings of The Residents – which is a good thing!
Sounds like your screaming into the speaker freakishly loud enough, and forcing it to work in reverse, causing the microphone fill the room with sound.
Did someone catch you in the act?
another perfect cut, whoknows jimi might have been impressed. i sure was. there is a part in the middle that sounds like you attached a booper to an airboat propeller and drove through a locust swarm.
i think cynthia plaster caster should get right on over to seward park and give you the honors.
Somewhat embarrassed to present this kind of stuff? Too bad, it probably beat Lou Reed and Boyd Rice by a couple of years. Each time you do present some I become a little more disappointed you haven’t released a solo album.
I can tell you right now there is more stuff where this came from and I will eventually put it up. I just need a little more time to think about it.
Has Cynthia Plaster-Caster knocked on your door yet? I’ll bet she trades you straight across for a Booper demonstration.
I obviously missed this the first time round. Man that is far out there. I remember doing similar stuff with my cheap old electric ROCKTEK guitar with Judge Dredd screaming ‘Kick Ass’ painted on it…. Would have been in the late 80’s I was doing it though.