Reversible Hyena: “Louder, Sloppier, Stupider, More!!”
Early on in my time with Joe & Co. I got together with most of Symphon-E (or whatever they were called at the time — possibly The Bludy Boys) and recorded these noise/tardcore jams on two microphones and a karaoke machine in the upstairs sunroom off of Elfboy’s bedroom in the McAdams home where Symphon-E practiced. I tried seeing if Steveggs might add it as a distro item in the Egg Scab Radio catalog once (after all, we covered “Dude Man”) but he said the sound quality was too shitty. Pretty good for laughs, and this project eventually, in my mind at least, evolved into Bwang!
For anyone wondering, the cover picture is from the instruction booklet for a product called the What-A-Saw, which was then renamed the Tri-A-Saw. I got it from a temp job I had for a couple days at the Home Shopping Network, in which the work consisted of opening the boxes of all the What-A-Saws and replacing the instruction booklet with the new Tri-A-Saw version.
Reversible_Hyena-Louder_Sloppier_Stupider_More.zip (80.4 Mb)
There was also a time, Chuck, when Elfboy, Jensen, Elfboy’s siblings and I recorded a song in that sunroom. Jensen and Elfboy told me that the recording was given to you for some project that they were working on with you and Joe. I don’t know what this could have been. Do you know? I played bass, a tambourine and Jensen and I drummed on some furniture.
Comment by Jason Krueger — February 12, 2010 @ 8:09 am
I don’t even remember such a thing! It might already be on a Bwang! album and I don’t even know you’re on it. Or it may be lost forever, or labeled as a Yes! Jensen! track… Can you describe it?
Comment by chuck — February 12, 2010 @ 8:50 am
The only thing I remember about the song was that it was some h.s. relationship type tune that Jensen joking said was about how his mom worked on the corner. Elfboy wrote it and it was recorded the year of the first Post-apocalyptic hallway, in 1998 I think.
Comment by Jason Krueger — February 26, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
I have been packing stuff up as I am moving, and I ran across some possible Ragman related tapes and discs. I was at a garage sale at Joe’s near downtown Cedar Falls back in, oh maybe, 2000 or 2001 and I got some stuff there. As I was leaving Joe gave me a bunch of stuff saying that I may want it. The cds are mostly No Consensus and Page 5 Girl stuff that is available else where, but most of the tapes have enigmatic labels and don’t sound too familiar. They are:
1) My Visit To Chuck’s And What Was Done
This tape was in a case with tracks labeled, but I don’t know if these match what’s on the tape.
Tracks:
Side 1
High School
Call To The Fiddlers
Roadkill Love/The Bleak Black Pit Of Relationship
Events Of Automobiles In History
I Don’t Know Where She’s Coming At
Puppies Are Yelping
Side 2
Puppies Are Yelping/Always Use The #/Fallapartatotamy
Oh Belly
Action Adventure
The Word Is No
Mr. Jennings
The Ballad Of Bird In Winter
Hannah Dropped Her Bible
Beautiful Things
2)The Radio With Love Hello Peanut *
3) Side 1: Brush Yr Teeth Side 2: Bad Jams w/ Joe
4)Nuggets Of Sax
I don’t have a setup right now to put them on my computer, but hope to eventually. Maybe someone knows what these are.
Comment by Jason — July 22, 2010 @ 8:42 am
I recognize several of those song titles on 1) but don’t remember them being originally on the same tape so this must be some mixdowns, a compilation of sorts. The others not so sure.
Comment by admin — July 26, 2010 @ 7:31 am