Sanity is a Distinctly Over-Rated Attribute

Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards

2009-12-31T14:28:00.000-08:00

Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards were created by some very talented and well known underground artists at the now defunct Scairy Hairy Toys in San Fransisco, Ca. in the early/mid 1990s.

These very crazy game boards were hand silk-screened and were probably pretty limited (maybe a hundred of each?).

There were only ten (?) different games created, of which I now am lucky to have all of now.

There is absolutely no information on this interweb thingy about these really cute and creative handmade games.... so I figured I'd post some images of the games and see if there are any other collectors of this "art".

Here's the list of the ten known games with links to the games and artists:

1. Land o' Sugar by David Fremont

2. Skidrow A-Go-Go by Mats. O (Mats O. Stromberg)

3. Bughouse by Steve Lafler (creator of the Bugjuice comix books)

4. Brew-HaHa by Wayno

5. Boredom by Daniel Clowes (creator of the Ghost World and Eightball comix)

6. Death 'n' Taxe$ by JR Williams

7. Kids These Days by Sperry

8. RoadsKill by R. L. Crabb

9. Heavenly Ham House by Lloyd Dangle

10. Paníque by Richard Sala

Flower Frankenstein, along with Bruce Hilvitz, published the extremely wonderful board games and can be found by clicking on their names!

And Don't Forget to Click on the Images for Jumbo Pictures of the Game!

Death 'N' Taxes!! (1993)

2009-12-31T14:13:00.000-08:00

Front cover

Death 'N' Taxes!! by JR Williams

The One & Only Inevitable Game!

With Your TORMENTED SOULS Game Pieces Included!

Yikes! Each Year It's The Same Old Game. You Finally Get A Step Up The Ladder, When... Whoopsie, Down The Slide You Go!

Click on the images for enlarged goodness!!!

Back cover

Silk screen game board

Rules with silk screen game pieces

Artist information

Remember Mr. Satan (of the IRS) says -- No Cheatin'!! The Ol' Devil's Got His Eye On You!!

Kids These Days (1994)

2009-12-31T13:03:00.000-08:00

Front cover
A Game For The Juvenile Delinquent Raging In All Of Us!!!

For The Wild Wanton Youngster Ramblin' For A Kick!!!

by Chuck Sperry

Object of the Game: To be the first player to reach the "Dead End" (at the end of the "Life of Crime - Downward Spiral"). May The Baddest Win!

From the back:

Remember playing boardgames like Candyland? You were an innocent kid with a dumb hair cut wishing so "bad" you were playing something else like "Super Colossal Master of All Elementary Schools or Ruler of All the Fudgesicles in the Freezer!" Your super strength allowing you to flick your opponent across the orange shag carpet? Well... Your wishes have come true. With The Wild Wigout Comix Gameboards!

Kids These Days was one of seven crazy art boardgames produced by Scairy Hairy Toys, San Fransisco in the early to mid-1990s. Each was created by a local underground artist and each was handmade, silk-screened and extremely limited (around 100 each).

Back cover

Silk screen game board

Rules and silk screen game pieces

Artist information

Whoops!

2009-12-30T22:12:00.000-08:00

I forgot that I haven't posted the images for the Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards Kids These Days by Sperry and Death 'n' Taxe$ by JR Williams... I'll have to get to that in the next day or two!

Scairy Hairy Toys Hand-Made Mask (circa 1994)

2009-12-30T21:35:00.000-08:00

hand silk screen mask

back side of mask info

Finally Robert Speray was kind enough to pass on an unopened hand-made silk screen mask made by the Scairy Hairy Toy Co. in San Francisco, California which was really awfully cool of him.

Click on the above images for blow-ups.

Here's a bit of an email he sent me that gives a tad more information on the store and the people who worked there.

All the stuff they made was playful, fun, and visually
interesting. Going into the store was always a treat. 
The store's open space and display window had monthly
themes.  Each month the store was turned into
a walk-in game space.

Flower (Frankenstein) worked in the back making
the stuff.  It was her ideas and designs and
manufacturing work that created the output. 
They sold other things too, interesting
alternative items from standard distribution
channels such as limited edition prints. 
Bruce managed the place.  They
seemed to be a fun couple that got along
ok and were doing something together that
was fulfilling and carried them ok.  Later I
heard they had broke up and the store was gone. 
I lost track of them, and the stuff I had
bought was put into my room of stuff and got
buried and forgotten.

Four years ago I ran across a few games and
wondered what had happened to Flower and Bruce. 
I googled their names and found that Flower was
doing some other things now, and Bruce seemed
to be around doing his thing.  I never got
in contact with them.  Recently I googled them
again, and Flower has a strong web presence with
a blog and a book. Before, there was zero references
to the store or the games.  Then on a recent search,
it was your blog that showed up as the definitive search
result for the name, and the games. 
Thanks for putting it up.  I hope you'll continue.

Skidrow A Go-Go (1994)

2009-12-30T20:56:00.000-08:00

Front Cover

Take Out Your Aggressions Along With Your Opponents As You Stumble Head First Into The Glamorous Life-Styles Of Crackheads, Thieves and Alcoholics!!!

Ah, my holy grail of Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards and it's by Mats O. Stromberg!

Only around 100 of these beautiful hand silk-screen babies exist! How much are they worth? Absolutely nothing monetarily! But to me the Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards are classic works of underground art!

Just click on the pictures and see!

This one I had been searching for since I first discovered the games way back in the early 1990's while working at indie record store Sound Exchange in Austin, Texas. I missed out on a copy on eBay about four years ago but kept looking and searching.

Finally I got lucky and Robert Speray posted a listing on eBay for the game... a big thanks to Robert because he also turned me on to three other Wild Wigout games that I didn't know existed!

back cover

silk-screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

artist information

Paníque - The Spooky Frightmare Game! (1994)

2009-12-30T20:28:00.000-08:00

Front cover

The third of the great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys that I didn't know existed! Only around 100 of each Wild Wigout game was made!

Once again I must give a great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

This one's a scairy one by the great gothic cartoonist Richard Sala!!! Make sure you check out his crazy website for info on his art and his Evil Eye comix book!

back cover

silk screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

artist information

Heavenly Ham House - The Safe-Sex Virtual-Reality Role-Playing Game!! (1994)

2009-12-30T20:04:00.000-08:00

Front cover of box

Another of the great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys that I didn't know existed!

Again a great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

This nasty little one's by Lloyd Dangle and it's a hoot! Don't forget to click on the images for the gory mega-detailed blow-ups!

back cover

silk screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

Disturbing artist info

RoadSkill - Survival on Life's Great Highway (1994)

2009-12-30T19:41:00.000-08:00

Another great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys and one of three I didn't know existed!

A great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

So it's ten games that Scairy Hairy Toys has put out not seven as I was told by one of the owners (Flower Frankenstein).

And now I have all ten... but will more surface in the near future?

This one's by R. L. Crabb. Click on the images to see blow-ups of the art and to see how crazy this game really is.

As with all the Wild Wigout games, there's probably around 100 of this silk-screened games floating around out there!

Pay your Respects to the Vultures for they are your Future

2009-11-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

5th Anniversary of the Death of Jhonn Balance (Coil)
16 February 1962 - 13 November 2004

Daniel Clowes' Boredom - The Dismal Anti-Game for 1 to 3 Players (1994)

2009-04-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here is a game that explores the mind-numbing sameness of daily existence in Modern Urban America.

Players spin the "spinner" and move clockwise around the board and may Only leave the game when:

A. The pointer lands on SUICIDE,
B. You land on either of the squares in which SUICIDE CONTEMPLATION is featured.

At these time Only may you place your player in the center, you May Not stop unless rules 2A or 2B apply.

The last player left after the others have committed suicide Wins or Loses, depending on your perspective.

Fun for the whole disfunctional family!

Tentacles and Gates (or Cthulhu's Snakes and Ladders)

2009-04-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

Rough draft of a silly little silk-screen game I'm fiddling around making....

Bughouse - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

2009-01-16T17:28:00.000-08:00

The Third Wild Wigout Game in the Series!

Bughouse - Be-Bop Game (1993)

A Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

by Steve Lafler - creator of the Bugjuice comix books

http://www.stevelafler.net/

Become a master Jazz Musician like Charlie Parker and Coltrane before getting hooked on Bug Juice and ending up stone-cold dead in the gutter... fun for the whole family!

Click on the Pictures for Jumbo Images!!!

Don't Be A Doinks, Daddy-O!!!

One More Brew-HaHa Image

2009-01-16T17:18:00.000-08:00

Brew-HaHa - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

2009-01-16T16:25:00.000-08:00

Here's the second of the six Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards that I have. It's called:

Brew-HaHa - The Official Beer Nutz Comix Game (1993)

It was created by underground comic artist Wayno (http://www.wayno.com/) in the mid 1990s for the now extinct Scairy Hairy Toys which was previously located in San Fransisco, Ca.

To play the game you need a case or three of cheap, cheap beer, shot glasses, and the song Rubber Biscuit by The Chips....

The object of the game is to out-drink your opponents while staying conscious yourself. The winner of the game is the last one standing and/or resisting the urge to throw-up especially while dancing and singing along to the great hit song "Rubber Biscuit" performed by The Chips circa 1956. Yes, anytime a player lands on the Rubber Biscuit space everyone has to jump up and shout Rubber Biscuit, Rubber Biscuit!!! while dancing to the song. Any player returning their cheap beer rental via the porcelain god is immediately disqualified and is banished to pass out in the bathtub.

Here's the song:

http://rapidshare.com/files/184610309/Chips_-_Rubber_Biscuit.rar

A here's the second coming of the Blues Brothers performing Rubber Biscuit live if you're not familiar with the song... now image drinking a crap load of cheap beer and having to drunkenly dance to this song a dozen times while playing the game.... pure genius on Wayno's part.

Click on the images to make them jumbo!!!

Remember to drink responsibly.

Land o' Sugar - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

2009-01-13T19:48:00.000-08:00

Front Cover of Box

Land O' Sugar is a smorgasbord of wiry mutants and undulating creeps resulting in nothing less than sweet molten insanity... mark my works, the fell good board game of the millennium!

David Fremont's Fun Action Game!

A 1 lbs. o' hard round candies not included!

Click on the images for jumbo versions!

Back Cover of Box (one pound of hard candy not included!)

Silk Screen Game Board

Rules and Silk Screen game pieces

Artist information

Crime & the City Solution - I Have The Gun (12")

2008-12-31T13:00:00.000-08:00

Question:
Do you love Nick Cave?
How about The Birthday Party?
Or Einstürzende Neubauten?
How about the film Wings of Desire?
You do?
Well, how about Crime and The City Solution?
Who?
Well, check out this EP and then head over to Young Moss Tongue to experience more of this great and over-looked band...

...you won't be disappointed:

http://youngmosstongue.blogspot.com/search/label/Crime%20%2B%20The%20City%20Solution

burned from the 12" on Mute Records, 1990.. the bass sounds a bit distorted but it could be the $9 speakers I have attached to my laptop...

from Wiki.:

Crime and The City Solution were a rock music band formed by Australian singer and songwriter Simon Bonney.

They had four distinct line-ups: Sydney in 1977-78, Melbourne in 1979, and two groupings in Berlin from 1985-1990. The only common member in all four line-ups was Bonney.

Other members included: former members of The Birthday Party (Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard); former Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks; and Alexander Hacke from Einstürzende Neubauten.

Crime and the City Solution completed four studio albums and a number of E.Ps during its existence, and a live album has since been released. Further early recordings have resurfaced on the internet. Parallels have been drawn between Crime and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Crime were famed for their live performances, where Bonney's delicate physical appearance contrasted sharply with his deep, dark voice. He has since gone on to record solo material.

http://rapidshare.com/files/178566992/I_Have_The_Gun_EP.rar

Avengers EP (1979) on White Noise Records

2008-12-31T11:08:00.000-08:00

Classic Early American Punk

four-song EP produced by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols (who the Avengers opened for at the Winterland in San Francisco at the Sex Pistols final show)....

...was released on White Noise Records in 1979 a couple months after the band broke up. Tracks The American In Me and Uh Oh are different than the versions on Pink Album release...

Produced by Geza X who produced a lot of early California punk releases including the Dead Kennedys , the Germs, and Black Flag...

James Wilsey later went on to play lead guitar with Chris Isaak....

Brad Kent was influential in the early Canadian punk scene and played in early versions of DOA and the Subhumans before joining the Avengers...

burned from the original black vinyl..

images stolen from Discog.com as my photos looked shitty...

http://rapidshare.com/files/178540857/Avengers_EP__1979_.rar

The Wedding Present - Live, Leicester Poly, 5th May 1987

2008-12-30T12:50:00.000-08:00

Burned from the cassette.... very good sound quality from this early show at a nearly empty university gig....

http://rapidshare.com/files/178306492/Live__Leicester_Poly__5th_May_1987.rar

Robert Anton Wilson - The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon

2008-12-29T23:10:00.000-08:00

Here's the second of the two R.A.W. tapes I have... this one was professionally recorded unlike the first one I posted which was an audience recording....

the recording takes place the next day, this time in Denver...

Sounds True seems to have been/is a convention recording company so the sound is very good... unfortunately, they did not mike the audience so their questions at the end are hard to hear or not recorded...

Robert Anton Wilson - The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon February 29, 1986 Denver, Colorado

...loads of wonderful conspiracy looniness and deep thinking...

http://rapidshare.com/files/178269758/Jumping_Jesus_Phenomenon.rar

Robert Anton Wilson - Live Feb. 28, 1986 Boulder, CO.

2008-12-29T15:49:00.000-08:00

Another of my collection of oddities. A very funny spoken word performance by Robert Anton Wilson on February 28, 1986 in Boulder, Colorado... probably at the University of Colorado...

I have another of these live recordings floating around, I'll see if I can't get it up in the next week or so....

if you're not familiar with R.A.W., he was a cosmic jokester and conspiracy author who wrote such infamous books as The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea), and the Cosmic Trigger books among others...

he was also a life-long friend Timothy Leary...

some Wiki links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Trigger_I:_The_Final_Secret_of_the_Illuminati

I reread the Cosmic Trigger books and The Illuminatus! Trilogy every couple of years just to stay sane.... fnord.

http://rapidshare.com/files/178034028/Live_Boulder__Colorado_Feb.rar

The Wedding Present Ukrainian Live Middleton 1989

2008-12-29T15:33:00.000-08:00

I still have a load of cassette tapes floating around (maybe 150 or so)... mainly obscure stuff that has not been released on CD or live bootlegs of shows...

....including five or six Wedding Present live cassettes purchased at a garage sale a number of years ago when a friend of mine went minimalist (thanks Karl!).

Here's the first of them.

It's more of their fun Ukrainian style music than their regular punk/pop.

I have no idea what the cassette cover says although the actual cassette says the show took place sometime in Middleton, UK in 1989.... enjoy!

oh, and click on the cassette cover image for a big blow-up if you can read Ukrainian...

http://rapidshare.com/files/177995910/Ukrainian_Live_89.rar

Slow night working the bar on a Saturday Night

2008-12-28T01:46:00.000-08:00

(COIL)Tactile / Rosa Mundi - Grief / The Snowman split 7"single

2008-12-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

Picture Disc 7" limited to 777....

Released in honour of the late Jhonn Balance (aka Geff Rushton) of Coil who died in November 2004.

Side A. Tactile - Grief (featuring John Balance of Coil)(Written By - John Everall / Jhonn Balance, Text Written By William Hope Hodgson)

...just a note, William Hope Hodgson wrote the Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder stories among others, he's one of my favorite short story writers and info. can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson

Side B. Rosa Mundi - The Snowman (Written By - Rose McDowall / Jhonn Balance)

...Rose McDowall has had multiple incarnations including the early 80's pop band Strawberry Switchblade, Current 93, Death in June, NoN, Coil, etc...

http://rapidshare.com/files/176753552/Tactile___Rosa_Mundi_-_Grief___The_Snowman.rar

Cosmonauts Hail Satan - Satan, Yuri And You Pts. I & II

2008-12-25T11:36:00.000-08:00

Here's the first single by Cosmonauts Hail Satan on Shock Records released in 1992.

More noisy goodness...

Limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, burned from my vinyl copy which is #177...

I posted their second single (their cover of Coil's Hellraiser Theme) back on 3/16/08...

http://rapidshare.com/files/176738850/Satan__Yuri_and_You_7__single.rar

Murder double 7" single

2008-12-24T22:24:00.001-08:00

Just in time for the Holidays!!!1

I'm actually a real nice guy but I admit that I have some really strange music in my collection... I was discussing the solved Adam Walsh case with my sister-in-law and she thought Ottis Toole was a partner of John Wayne Gacy but it was actually Henry Lee Lucas... well, that reminded me of this odd little (and disturbing) release in my collection... (I'm probably going to have nightmares tonight listening to this while burning it)....

I swear I really am a nice guy... I like rainbows, and kittens.... and penguins.... and walks in the park...

here's a double 7" single called Murder on blood red vinyl that contains interviews with four convicted serial killers... Henry Lee Lucas, Kenneth Bianchi, Edmund Emil Kemper, Theodore Robert Bundy...

(I notice that Michael Moynihan was involved with this. He was/is the music group Blood Axis, is associated with Boyd Rice (NoN), Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, and wrote the book Lords of Chaos, an account of the early Norwegian Black Metal scene... uh, o.k.)

...burned from my copy and I'm assuming that this double 7" was pretty limited...

from discog.com:

Label: Alamut Records
Catalog#: KILL
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 7"
Country: US
Released:
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Interview
Credits: Artwork By [Design / Layout] - Michael Moynihan
Notes: "The first installment in this special interest series deals with the brutal reality of man's murderous capabilities. This release contains portions of interviews with four convicted killers."
(Note: no further installments in this "series" were ever released.)

Pressed on red vinyl. Comes in a clear sleeve with a folded cover sheet.
Vinyl etchings:
A: Isolate...
B: Dominate...
C: Enslave...
D: ...Exterminate.
Design/Layout by Storm (Michael Moynihan)

Tracklisting:
A. Edmund Emil Kemper - (Sexual Murderer, Necrophiliac, "Co-Ed Killer'): "I Had Thought Of Annihilating The Entire Block That I Lived On."

B. Henry Lee Lucas - (Murderer, Rapist, Arsonist, White Trash): "I Was Death On Women."

C. Theodore Robert Bundy - (Serial Murderer, "Phantom Prince"): "I'm The Most Cold-Blooded Son Of A Bitch That You'll Ever Meet."

D. Kenneth Bianchi - (Rapist, Murderer, "Hillside Strangler"): "I Didn't See Anything Wrong With It - It Was Just There."

http://rapidshare.com/files/176588017/Murder.rar

Braiiinnnnnssss.....

2008-12-24T22:10:00.000-08:00

Here's a load of B-Horror film radio trailers I've collected off the intraweb and other locations... they're really great for splicing in between tracks on home-made music compilations. People still make those, right? Or have we all become too lazy because of the web to even do that...

http://rapidshare.com/files/102913696/Radio_Promos.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/102922321/Radio_Promos.part2.rar

John Trubee - A Blind Man's Penis

2008-12-24T21:45:00.000-08:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/176577331/John_Trubee___the_Ugly_Janitors_of_Ameri.rar

where to begin with this?

John Trubee & the Ugly Janitors of America... 1992... on the German label Musical Tragedies, track one is a classic weird country & western recording while the other two tracks are throw aways (sorry John)....

burned from my black wax copy, limited to ???

from John Trubee himself (

http://www.songpoemmusic.com/trubee.htm):

You Too Can Be A Recording Star!
Article by John Trubee

Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind. This ludicrous line was invented out of sheer boredom and homicidal frustration as I labored as a cashier in a convenience store in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1975. I'd scribble some poems and weird phrases on a legal pad to vent my seething anguish. Writing on the job was a kind of self-invented therapy to prevent the onset of mental illness due to occupational stress and severe teenage alienation.

In late spring of 1976, I bought one of those horrible sleazy tabloids you find in supermarkets by the check-out stand. I had to keep up on my UFO sightings and mass hatchet murders.

In the back pages of the Midnight Globe (not the National Enquirer, as erroneously reported elsewhere -- was it Time?), I scanned the geeky little ads and saw: "Cowrite on a 50-50 basis, earn $20,000 royalties, send your song poems to ..." some outfit in Nashville, Tennessee. I thought to myself: wouldn't it be fun to send these people the most ridiculous, stupid, vile, obscene, retarded Iyrics to see their response?

In five minutes of stream of consciousness (or unconsciousness), I hammered out the following:

Peace & Love

I got high last night on LSD
My mind was beautiful, and I was free
Warts loved my nipples because they are pink
Vomit on me, baby
Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind
It's erect because he's blind, it's erect because he's blind
Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind
It's erect because he is blind

Let's make love under the stars and watch for UFOs
And if little baby Martians come out of the UFOs
You can fuck them
Yeah Yeah Yeah.

The zebra spilled its plastinia on bemis
And the gelatin fingers oozed electric marbles
Ramona's titties died in hell
And the Nazis want to kill everyone.

Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind ... etc.

I wanted to get an emotional letter from the jerks in Nashville. I wanted them to tell me I was crazy. I wanted there to curse me out in writing so I could show all my friends.

Several weeks later I received a letter from Nashville Co-Writers which began:

Dear John,
We have just received your lyrics and think they are very worthy of being recorded with the full Nashville Sound Production. ... I am enclosing a contract of acceptance. Please sign and return along with $79.95 to cover the cost for each song to be completed ...

Aha! They wanted my money. I knew it! But if I send them the money, they would send me a tape and a record of my lyrics set to music. Although $79.95 was a lot to a minimum wage teenager, I signed the "contract of acceptance" and returned it with a check. Several weeks later I received a 7-inch, 45 RPM record that had a label and grooves only on one side. Typed on the white label was "Peace & Love" (John Trubee-Will Gentry). I immediately rushed upstairs and put this little gem on the turntable for a listen. Over the lamest, most minimal country track was some country hack singing the lyrics I wrote. I was stunned.

They did change one line, though -- they excised all mention of Stevie Wonder and had the singer croon repeatedly "A blind man" instead.

Also enclosed with the disc (actually an acetate) was a photograph of Ramsey Kearney, the guy who sang the damned thing. Wearing a butterfly-print polyester shirt, Ramsey looked like the perfect man to sing these demented lyrics.

Ramsey Kearney, singer of "Blind Man's Penis"

Several weeks later, Nashville sent a teeny 3-inch reel tape of the song in extreme stereo -- one channel had only the prerecorded rhythm track while the other channel featured Ramsey singing those idiot lyrics with a little slap-back echo thrown in.

For years I had recorded hours of tapes of my teenage band, prank phone calls, studio demo tapes, synthesizer blurbles, and various recordings of an unusual nature. I wanted all this hard work to be heard, and I loved distributing my tapes simply to annoy people and sometimes even to enlighten or entertain them. I am a music fanatic, a recording fanatic, and I needed to get this material out. It was my response to a world that seems always to have told me that I am small and worthless. Putting out music for the hell of it was my way of giving the finger to a universe indifferent to my existence.

In December 1982, I received a call at work from Ron Stringer, guitarist for the Fibonaccis, an L.A. art band. Earlier that year at a gig at Al's Bar, I had given him a John Trubee sampler cassette, which contained my Nashville prank song, "Peace & Love." Ron evidently played the tape for record producer Craig Leon, who was helping the Fibonaccis release their song "Tumors" on vinyl. Craig liked "Peace & Love" so much that he wanted to release it as a 45.

Craig managed to have the record pressed by Enigma, whom I had never even heard of. I got 50 free promo copies of the record. We didn't discuss any specific deal. Any sort of greed, bitchery, money hassles, or small-minded haggling might have discouraged Enigma from marketing my record. I felt that they were doing me a favor by bothering to press it and give me some free copies. In retrospect, this attitude is one of profound naiveté borne of youthful inexperience.

When I drove to Torrance one night after work to pick up the 50 copies of my beautiful record, some guy from Greenworld came up to me and, referring to the 250 copies they had pressed, said, "We already invested $20 in this record, and we don't want to have anything more to do with it." Great. I spend years of my life playing music, studying music, using all my spare moments working on my music to agonizingly drag it into the world to give to people, and I still get the callous snub from the typical idiot in the music business.

The records were in plain white sleeves and had blank white labels. For $16 I had four rubber stamps made at a stationery store so I could stamp each record with the pertinent information. I also bought several hundred plastic record sleeves from a local Licorice Pizza and designed and photocopied my own little cover to insert along with the record.

With my original 50 copies, I did a promotional mailing to Dr. Demento and various radio stations, not expecting any response whatsoever.

I sent a copy to Los Angeles TV vampiress Elvira, a.k.a. Cassandra Peterson, who at the time hosted a show at progressive radio station KROQ-FM in Pasadena. She sent a postcard explaining that she'd attempt to play the record on her show, but she wasn't sure she would be able to due to the offensive lyric content. I basically shrugged it off, put her postcard in my files, and forgot about it.

That Sunday, Zoogz Rift, in whose band I played bass, called and told me to quickly turn on KROQ. I did, and sure enough, they were playing my song. The enlightened and godlike DJs at KROQ thereafter regularly played it.

Enigma re-pressed the record, adding it to their catalogue and christening it with the new moniker "A Blind Man's Penis," even designing a groovy little label for it. Matt Groening devoted his entire Sound Mix column in the Reader, a weekly Los Angeles tabloid, to the convoluted story of how "A Blind Man's Penis" came into existence.

Doc Wör Mirran - Quickly Skitzo

2008-12-24T21:07:00.000-08:00

Don't really know anything about this fun noise group, picked this up at a discounted price in 1992.... I might have one or two more singles by them.

The single came out on Forced Exposure in 1991 and was limited to 600 copies...

burned from my black vinyl 7" single... I swear the back cover has a photo of one of the girls from the new wave band We've Got A Fuzzbox...

discogs.com says:

The actual name "Doc Wör Mirran" was thought up by Bernard H. Worrick while he and Joseph B. Raimond lived together in San Francisco in 1982. But the real history of DWM begins when Bernard H. Worrick and Joseph B. Raimond both moved to Nürnberg Germany in 1985, where Joseph B. Raimond bought an analog 8-track recording studio and began to record what has since become a huge body of recorded work. The concept of DWM though from the very beginning was to combine music, graphic art, painting, sculpture, poetry and just about every other medium of art into one project. The open-membership policy of DWM is an important part of the DWM philosophy.In the early 1990's, Bernard H. Worrick moved to Florida, taking with him an important part of the group's identity. But DWM has continued onwards without Bernard. Bringing Bernard back to Germany and returning him to the DWM fold has become one of the goals of the group. Although rarely playing live, DWM is not averse to live concerts, although playing live is not one of the priorities of the group. Since the departure of Bernard, DWM has become especially interested in collaborative efforts with other artists, both recorded and live. Recent developments with DWM include the formation of a new label within MT Undertainment devoted exclusively to the recordings, literature and artwork by DWM and its various members.

http://rapidshare.com/files/176573450/Doc_Woer_Mirran.rar

Missing Foundation - Assault on Your Life

2008-12-24T20:50:00.000-08:00

More lovely noise this time from German/NYC industrial folks Missing Foundation. This is from their only 7" single that I know about. On Lungcast Records.

Released in 1992 on crappy red wax. They did release a couple of full lengths of which I might have one somewhere....

from the Missing Foundation Discography at Discogs.com:

Their logo shows a martini-cocktail glass turned upside down meaning "the party's over!". Missing Foundation made a point of fighting gentrification in New York's Lower East Side and other metropolitan areas. They left their logo painted on walls whereever they travelled. Walking around in major European cities in the late 80's/early 90's you would find this all over the place.

and from the Missing Foundation website (http://www.petermissing.com/MF.html):

THE PROJECT WAS FOUNDED BY PETE MISSING IN HAMBURG IN 1984. TWO MEMBERS OF KMFDM AND FLORIAN LANGMAACK WERE THE LINE UP. THREE DRUMMERS WERE ADDED AND ONE PERFORMANCE AT THE KIR WHICH ENDED IN DAMAGE TO THE SPEAKER SYSTEM. SOON THE BAND DISBANDED AND PETE MOVED BACK TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE. THE BAND WAS REFORMED WITH CHRIS EGAN, P. MISSING, MARK ASHWILL AND VKP.

http://rapidshare.com/files/176566907/Missing_Foundation.rar

Drunks with Guns - Drug Problem

2008-12-24T19:38:00.000-08:00

Happy/mad music from St. Louis, Missouri alcoholics Drunks with Guns. This was their fourth single on the Noiseville label and the last to contain all the original members... burned from my orange colored 7"... this was limited to 500 copies and was released in 1989.

This is considered one of the four important recordings by DWG according to Tom Noerper who played on the single.

No scan of the cover because that requires me to hook up the scanner so tough luck!

But I did find a post of their first self-titled single here:

http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/?p=248

so that cover will have to do.

http://rapidshare.com/files/176561985/Drunks_with_Guns.rar

Faith & Power - An ESP Disc Sampler (JAZZ) (Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, etc.)

2008-12-03T21:35:00.000-08:00

This is something I forgot I had... it's a promotional CD included for subscribers of Wire Magazine (UK) issue from July 2002...

Wire Magazine tends to focus on modern music... avant-garde jazz, experimental, electronica, etc.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/

don't have a link for the ESP Disc label...

Tracklisting:

1 Albert Ayler Trio Ghosts: First Variation (5:01)
2 Ornette Coleman Trio, The Sadness (4:00)
3 Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra Cosmic Chaos (Edit) (9:04)
4 Bob James Trio Wolfman (6:13)
Featuring - Robert Ashley
5 Sea Ensemble, The Snake Creeps Down (3:47)
6 Sonny Simmons Interplanetary Travelers (Edit) (4:42)
7 Charles Tyler Ensemble Black Mysticism (Edit) (4:09)
8 Marzette Watts Backdrop For Urban Revolution (Edit) (6:22)
9 Frank Wright Your Prayer (Edit) (5:40)
10 Frank Lowe Brother Joseph (4:35)
11 Patty Waters Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair (13:58)
12 Velvet Underground, The Noise (Edit) (1:40)

http://rapidshare.com/files/102429388/Faith___Power_-_ESP_comp..rar

Loopflesh / Fleshloop - Like Rats / Straight To Your Heart

2008-03-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

Out-of-print split 7" between Justin's Broadrick's Godflesh (credited as Fleshloop) and Robert Hampson's Loop (Loopflesh). The bands cover each other's songs and the release was limited to 1400 copies. The words "RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR" are incised on the run-off groove of side A with side B having these words written backwards.

A	Loopflesh*	Like Rats (6:30)
AA	Fleshloop*	Straight To Your Heart (7:43)

Label:	Clawfist
Catalog#:	XPIG 07
Format:	Vinyl, 7"
Country:	UK
Released:	May 1991
Genre:	Electronic, Rock
Style:	Noise, Experimental, Industrial
Notes:	Each band's contribution is a cover of a song originally by the other. (Hence the alternate artist names listed on the sleeve.) http://rapidshare.com/files/101080440/Loopflesh-Fleshloop.rar

Henry Bison - Family Values EP

2008-03-20T14:39:00.000-07:00

I used to work with this guy - Daniel - years ago (mid 1990s) at a record store in Austin, TX and his band "Henry Bison" - which was really just him - put out this EP which I still find hysterical today...

he recorded this himself on four-track...

It was originally released by the Texas label Rise Records (Frank Kozik & Craig Koon); limited edition of 100 with hand-screened vinyl covers.... which I don't have a scan of so here's a substitution cover thrown together instead...

http://rapidshare.com/files/101075201/Henry_Bison.rar

Drop-O - Green Eggs and Sam the Man (one-sided ep) (Beat Jazz)

2008-03-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

One-sided vinyl EP by guy I knew who works/worked at Waterloo Records in Austin... the single probably came out in 1995 or 1996 and I believe pressed by the Rise Records guys (Frank Kozik and Craig Koon) although it wasn't on that label... it's a Beat Jazz version of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.... I think they pressed maybe 30 to 50 copies. The cover is my own creation.

http://rapidshare.com/files/101065911/Drop-O.rar

The Unbecoming: An International Compilation

2008-03-17T18:38:00.000-07:00

Label:	Freedom In A Vacuum
Catalog#:	VACCD.01
Format:	CD, Compilation
Country:	Canada
Released:	1993
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Industrial, Experimental

Tracklisting:

1	Dead Masochistic Gut	Detuning
2	Crawl/Child	Unbecome / Unborn / Unformed
3	Allegory Chapel Ltd.	Brutality Of Love
4	Plecid	Sssexy
5	Randy Greif	Garden Of The Lights
6	Pierre-André Arcand	Au-Dela Des Machines
7	PGR	Microbes
8	W.A. Davison	Shed 26
9	Empirical Sleeping Consort	We Are Sitting In A Room (With Apologies To Alvin)
10	John Duncan	Stress Chamber

http://rapidshare.com/files/100368170/Unbecoming_Freedom_in_a_Vacuum_1.rar

The Memorial Elvis Project (neither a tribute nor a celebration)

2008-03-17T18:26:00.000-07:00

Label:	Odd Size
Catalog#:	CD OS 03
Format:	CD
Country:	France
Released:	1990 or 1992
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Experimental
Notes:	Packaged in 7" folder sleeve.

my copy unfortunately has lost its sleeve along the way... not the best of compilations but you might find a track or two you like... features noise/experimental sounds from:

1	Élève Modèle	You Take My Heart Forever (0:16)
2	H.N.A.S.	Ku-U-I-Po (3:19)
3	Asmus Tietchens	Charisma Perdu (3:38)
4	La Sonorité Jaune	Fatarnt (3:36)
		Effects [Treatments], Edited By, Mixed By - Z/H Tape, Edited By - Jean-Marie Omni*
5	Psyclones	Hound Dog (4:05)
		Performer - Brian Ladd , Julie Frith
6	Bene Gesserit	Love Me Tender (0:32)
7	Duck And Cover In A Psylobottle	N'Attends Personne Acceuille Qui Vient (2:41)
		Featuring - Pacific 231 (2)
8	Laurent Pernice	Le Lys Se Prive (3:00)

http://rapidshare.com/files/100361357/The_Memorial_Elvis_Project.rar

NoN - Sick Tour (Live in Staalplaat 8-3-'85)

2008-03-17T18:02:00.000-07:00

Label:	Staalplaat
Catalog#:	none
Format:	CD, Limited Edition, Cardboard Sleeve
Country:	Netherlands
Released:
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Noise
Notes:	Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered CD copies.

Grinding distorted industrial noise from Boyd Rice

http://rapidshare.com/files/100358130/NoN_Sick_Tour.rar

Coil - Duplais Balance box

2008-03-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

Label:	Absinthevertrieb Lion
Catalog#:	HOA237862
Format:	CD, Limited Edition Box Set, Limited Edition, Wood
Country:	Germany
Released:	Dec 2006
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Leftfield, Glitch, Industrial, Ambient
Credits:	Composed By, Artwork By [Cover & Bottle Label] - Peter Christopherson
Notes:	Signed and numbered edition of 250 copies. A wooden box set consisting one small bottle of fine absinthe (label designed and signed by Peter Christopherson, two smashed absinthe glasses (damn you UPS!), two spoons and a CD containing the track Animal Are You? (11:38) specially recorded track by Peter Christopherson / Coil. The absinthe, Duplais Balance, was created to commemorate the memory of COIL's Jhonn Balance and has won Silver, Best in Classe at the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2007 Yes, I own the box and no I haven't opened the bottle.... http://rapidshare.com/files/100344232/Animal_Are_You.mp3

Robert Haigh/Sema

2008-03-17T15:41:00.000-07:00

Robert Haigh's Juliet of the Spirits 12" came out in 1985 on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords. Sema's Extract from Rosa Silber 12" came out on Le Rey Records in 1983. Sema=Robert Haigh. Both releases are very out-of-print and very hard to track down. Robert Haigh has worked with Nurse with Wound, Paul Oakenfold, and Chrystal Belle Scrodd among others. For fans of early United Dairies Records, modern classical, experimental, and such music

Sema - Extract from Rosa Silber

Label:	Le Rey Records
Catalog#:	LR 101
Format:	Vinyl, 12"
Country:	UK
Released:	1983
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Modern Classical, Experimental

Robert Haigh - Juliet Of The Spirits

Label:	L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords
Catalog#:	LAY 09
Format:	Vinyl, 12"
Country:	Belgium
Released:	1985
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Modern Classical, Experimental

http://rapidshare.com/files/100326849/Sema.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/100334731/Robert_Haigh__Sema_.rar

Cosmonauts Hail Satan - Hellraiser

2008-03-16T07:44:00.000-07:00

Label:	Fourth Dimension Records
Catalog#:	FDS33
Format:	Vinyl, 7"
Country:	UK
Released:	1994
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Noise, Experimental, Ambient
Notes:	These tracks were inspired by the first hellraiser film and Coil's unused soundtrack. First pressing on black vinyl with a black and white sleeve in an edition of 380, second pressing on clear vinyl with a maroon and white sleeve in an edition of 190. way out-of-print.... burned from my vinyl copy.... http://rapidshare.com/files/99998903/Hellraiser.rar

Dry Lungs Vol. V (various artists)

2008-03-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

Label:	Subterranean Records
Catalog#:	SUB 72-2
Format:	2 x CD, Compilation
Country:	US
Released:	1992
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Industrial, Noise, Experimental
Credits:	Artwork By - Arthur Potter Compiled By - Paul Lemos

Tracklisting:

1-1	Controlled Bleeding	Live Bleeding I (0:20)
1-2	Joe Papa	Scat Fuck Party (3:34)
1-3	Étant Donnés	S'Envole (8:03)
1-4	Controlled Bleeding	Golgotha (Excerpt) (5:51)
1-5	Fat Hacker	Diner Song (0:21)
1-6	Carl Stone	Moms (11:42)
1-7	Fat Hacker	Hog Song I (0:08)
1-8	Masonna	Anal A La Mode (4:18)
1-9	Fat Hacker	Hog Song II (0:06)
1-10	Un Drame Musical Instantané	Rien Ne Va Plus (12:14)
1-11	Chris Moriarty	Moisture (4 Track Demo) (2:48)
1-12	Hijokaidan	Planeticket (Excerpt) (5:42)
1-13	Trance	All The Myriad Ways (3:34)
2-1	Controlled Bleeding	Live Bleeding II (0:27)
2-2	Cranioclast	Careful! (4:32)
2-3	Paul Lemos	Hog Tied (5:21)
2-4	Merzbow	Man-Plug (8:24)
2-5	PGR	Floods And Chairs (10:03)
2-6	Skin Chamber	In The Sewer Of Dreams (7:37)
2-7	Désaccord Majeur	Une Autre Réaction (3:07)
2-8	Phallus Dei	Amiin Doll (Excerpt) (2:43)
2-9	Mike Hovancsek	Egregious (1:54)
2-10	Hélène Sage & Bernard Vitet	Machography (4:44)
2-11	Incapacitants	As A Taxpayer (Excerpt) (3:35)
2-12	Arcane Device	Tendril (7:12)
2-13	Solmania	Eliminator (Excerpt) (1:42)
2-14	Violent Onsen Geisha	Dynamic Summer Groove '78 (3:36)
2-15	K.K. Null	Bad Sun Rising (Excerpt) (1:41)

http://rapidshare.com/files/99900204/Dry_Lungs_V__disc_one_.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/99904540/Dry_Lungs_V__disc_two_.rar

Hybryds - The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive pt. 2

2008-03-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

Label:	Dark Vinyl Records
Catalog#:	DV 09
Format:	CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country:	Germany
Released:	1992
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Industrial, Ambient

Notes:Track 8 has close to 5 minutes of silence
before the unlisted track 9 starts. (7:18 in total)
Limited to 800 copies.

http://rapidshare.com/files/99895141/The_Ritual_Should_Be_Kept_Alive__part_2_.rar

Beat Jazz - Pictures from the Gone World

2008-03-15T20:18:00.000-07:00

very out-of-print and rare compilation of beat jazz, burned off the original vinyl (1000 copies), on Pesky Serpent Records (PS 1001). Came out in the mid-1990s. Might have been reissued a few years back on very limited CD but not sure...

From the web:
this is one beautiful collection of beat music,
spoken word and crazed goofballed lyrics. Way out there selections
of many unknown beat artists at their most primitive level spewing
forth underground sounds and styles of a bygone era. No Zane or kitch
here but straight ahead songs that ooze the beat feel! This is a
fantastic selection of music. For me its the beat of this genre...

Songs:
1. FROSTY AND THE DIAMONDS - Destination Mars
2. SLIM GAILLARD - Travelin Blues
3. KENNETH REXROTH - State & 32nd
4. COLEMAN HAWKINS - Picasso
5. GREGORY CORSO - Bomb
6. SCOTTY McKAY - Black Cat
7. JACK HAMMER - Like
8. GIL MELLE - The Gears
9. DOCTOR BOP - Satin & Velvet
10. ANITA ELLIS w/DAVID AMRAM - The Crazy Daisy
11. BOB DOROUGH (by Ferlinghetti) - Dog
12. HARVEY ANDERSON - Monday Night at 8pm
13. JACK KEROUAC - Cockroach
14. THE COSMIC RAYS with SUN RA - Dreaming
15. ROY GLENN - Big High Song For Somebody
16. ADA MOORE - Devil
17. MOONDOG - Up Broadway
18. WOODY LEAFER - Drums In My Typrewriter
19. THE NEW BANGS - Go Go Kitty
20. ELLIE GIRL & THE 7 BEAT SULKS - Let's Make It

http://rapidshare.com/files/99887737/Beat_Jazz.rar/

Ahnenerbe - Nacht Und Nebel

2008-03-15T19:52:00.000-07:00

Label:	Autarkeia
Catalog#:	ACD 005
Format:	CD, Limited Edition
Country:	Lithuania
Released:	2004
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Industrial, Dark Ambient, Occult

Edition of 288 copies

Review from www.heathenharvest.com -

Ah, one of the rare moments where I just look at something and let out a contented sigh. Ahnenerbe – An album based around the German National Socialist research facility, as founded by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, historian Hermann Wirth, and SS-Obergruppenführer Richard Walther Darré.

“Nacht Und Nebel” (which of course translates into “Night and Fog”) is no less mythical in its hugely ambitious concept, than in its historical practice itself,whereas its aim in the dark ambient scene is not just to expand its “lebensraum” and secure its position on the hierarchy of this ethos of music, but to create an empire that answers to none. The comparisons are limitless.

Like the mysterious practices of the organisation, the music delivered by Ahnenerbe takes us through catacombs, skeletal walls echoing, and the general feeling of elitist Arthurian imagery and propaganda.

The oppressing structures deliver a theme of alienation, and when mixed with samples of no other than the Leaders of the SS themselves, it is in some cases exactly like listening to your own fate being discussed, while waiting for the first of many experiments to be performed.

The music draws from a rich tapestry of ambient and industrial collaborations and influences, and whereas its Germanic counterparts took much time and deliberation in studying the Bayeux Tapestry for evidence of Aryan Supremacy, Ahnenerbe takes the same dedication in spreading out the pages of this black grimoire for all to study and recite.

What we are essentially provided with, is nothing short of a ritual piece of Semi-Occultic and deliberately unsettling ambience. Wolfram Sievers (Reichsgeschäftsführer des Ahnenerbes) vanished after performing a death ritual, and it’s music like this that can push one over the edge.

Nacht und Nebel is limited to 288 copies, and at the request of the artist, will NEVER be reissued.

As if this wasn’t good enough, the CD is covered with a special lacquer which smells like almonds. What an explosive idea *wink wink*.

http://rapidshare.com/files/99882011/Ahnenerbe_-_Nacht_Und_Nebel.rar

A Chud Convention (Skinny Puppy & à;GRUMH)

2008-03-15T18:41:00.000-07:00

Label:	Circle Records
Catalog#:	Circle 003
Format:	Vinyl, 12"
Country:	Belgium
Released:	1987
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Noise, Experimental, Ambient
Credits:	Drum Programming, Featuring [Phone] - cEvin Key Engineer - Paul Delnoy , Wonder Deedier, The Keyboards, Sampler, Noises - SΔ3 EVETS Producer, Engineer - Dave "Rave" Ogilvie* Producer, Mixed By - SΔ3 EVETS Voice, Featuring [Cough] - JΔ3 SEUQCAJ Voice, Featuring [Throat] - Nivek Ogre
Notes:	A one-off "project" between à;Grumh… (S.3 Evets and J.3 Seuqcaj) and Skinny Puppy (cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre).

A one-off recording during their 1986 European tour... burned off my vinyl copy... very similar to the occult sounds of early Current 93 (Dawn, Live at Bar Maldoror, In Menstrual Night)... creepy distorted voice-based atmospheric noise, great for late night listening.

Below are the new links as the old ones were deleted by accident:

Track 1: Patient Sorrow

Track 2: Silent Sorrow

Con-Dom: Oh Ye of Little Faith EP

2008-03-15T18:05:00.000-07:00

Label:	Tesco Organisation
Catalog#:	TESCO 007
Format:	Vinyl, 7", Limited Edition
Country:	Germany
Released:	Feb 1992
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Industrial, Noise
Notes:	Edition of 514 copies