Re: Album sleeve notes don’t have to be boring: Just look at those written by Thomas Pynchon, Hunter S Thompson and other literary greats

[jochen stremmel]

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2015-08-10 18:07 GMT+02:00 David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>:

> I've got an album jacket (I lost the vinyl many years ago - ? - ; the
> jacket now holds the copy of White Light/ White Heat I've had since I was a
> kid...) by an outfit called Barefoot In The Head (Jim Sauter, Don Dietrich,
> Thurston Moore; Forced Exposure 1990; FE-015).  I've wondered for many
> years whether the Pynchon liner notes on its back side are legit.  I tried
> sending photos of them but I don't think they made it through the
> visiferous aether, so here they are:
>
>
> One night Johnson, Coley and I were sitting in the backyard with a bucket
> of sangria and a few bongloads of some very righteous boo.  I'd brought out
> a box of my live Sonic Youth tapes and we were arguing about Ranaldo's
> tongue vectors in the third quadrant of "Society Is A Hole" (Folk City, NYC
> 12/1/82) when one of T. Moore's downstrokes caught our attention.  We ran
> the tape and listened to the passage a few times.  The subtly monstrous and
> mindless GUSH with which T. Moore hit the "E" chord made it obvious that
> his playing was not coming out of a complete spiritual void.  This was a
> real revelation.  It meant that he was capable of actually unclenching his
> brain and loosing demons of soul creativity.
>         Because we hate to see anyone lackeyed to the jive-ass,
> pop-structure, white-man a-motionalism, a plan was immediately sprung for
> freeing T. Moore from the shackles of Peggy Lee-descended dogshit that were
> obviously off his TRUE HUMAN FORCE.  Deciding which hominid cudgels might
> best be wielded against these procedural chains was a lead pipe cinch.  Who
> but Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich?  These two men are the freest, loudest,
> swingin'est white motherfuckers to ever jaw-cleave an industrial strength
> reed.  Their work with Borbetomagus has long been a raucous fountain of
> tonal explosion and aesthetic purity, as well as a black-gloved fist up the
> diz of all conservative musical architects.  If anyone could blow the lock
> off of T. Moore's creational emo-safe, Jim and Don were it.
>         The rest was a snap.  I had my agent get in touch with all the
> parties.  She explained the points of our proposal in no uncertain terms.
> The results are presented here.  Two free men meet a slave.  Everyone goes
> home barefoot.  Right-fuckin'-on.
>
> --Thomas Pynchon
>   Somerville, MA
>   January, 1990
>
>
>
> What do you all think?
>
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 12:02 PM Jolly good day we are having, Dave Monroe
> wrote:
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> >
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