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July 27, 2005
Man Spends Most of His Twenties in Rock Band; Stops
We're not running out of oil. Thousands of indie rock records pressed in the '90s are buried deep in landfills, degrading, slowly becoming petroleum again -- we just need some patience. I know for a fact that several pounds of unsold albums I recorded were left on a curb for the Streets and Sanitation crew. But CDs are smaller and less biodegradable, so we tend to stash them away. I was cleaning house this past week and found a cache of CDs of my old band, Ashtray Boy. When we formed in the Spring of '92, I didn't know how to play the drums. By the time I left the band eight years later, I'd traveled the continent a few times over, ventured to Australia, and avoided work for most of the Clinton administration; along the way, I made some amazing friends, had some wild times, and turned into a fairly convincing drummer-impersonator. Oh, and we wrote a few decent songs. So, I decided I'd make these extant CDs available to interested parties. They are: Macho Champions (Ajax, 1994) Candypants Beach (Ajax, 1995) The Everyman's 4th Dimension (Ajax, 1996) There's Your Heart (Phono-Statique, 2000) They're all brand-new & still shrinkwrapped. How about, like...$5 a pop? I'm thinking of Arby's here, with their five-sandwiches-for-$5.49-thing, as I think each record has about five particularly tasty songs on it. If you make the most half-assed attempt to explain why I should just give you one, most likely I will. You game? E-mail me. Or, be my PayPal at the same address. Also, I found some surplus copies of our two 7"s. Where's the Arby's analogy for this? Call it a Morose Meal. $3 a platter. Again, free if I slept on your floor or vice versa. ADDENDUM 10/16/05: I forgot to mention that I also have vinyl LPs of The Everyman's 4th Dimension. $5 as well. Also, I'll throw in a free bonus gift with every order! ADDENDUM 10/19/05: Oh -- I also have some 7" of Larry Cash, Jr., my pre-Ashtray Boy band with some of the guys from AB and the Pulsars. As mentioned in this month's issue of Tape Op (amazingly)! It's a split single with the Handsome Family, released on Snap!Crackle!Punk! Records (the label of the fanzine Speed Kills. Yeah, I told you this was a long time ago.) $3.
July 19, 2005
Holler at a Chicken
Some ex-Black Panthers are trademarking the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" in order to market hot sauce.
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