Back in 1997 I got a taped letter from someone I’d never heard of before. He was writing in hopes of convincing me to come and speak to an organization I had once belonged to; he’d joined it three years after I left, and was worried that it wasn’t growing; he thought guest speakers might help.<\/p>\n
Mind you, he hadn’t actually discussed any of this with the rest of the group before sending me the tape.<\/p>\n
He sent a tape instead of a letter, he said, because he was out of writing paper, but had a big bag of blank cassettes he’d picked up dirt cheap somewhere.<\/p>\n
Nothing ever came of the speaking idea, but I wound up exchanging letters with the guy for a few years.<\/p>\n
Anyway, today I recorded that original taped letter, which included all three versions of the theme song from “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” as well as some random instrumental track I didn’t recognize, and of course the long, rambling letter, about fifty minutes of it.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind having the MST3K music, and the letter itself is intermittently interesting — the long tangent about how surgical prostheses are over-engineered was perversely fascinating — so I’m keeping it, and have added it to my library.<\/p>\n
I got that done fairly early, and decided to do more, so I’m just now finishing up with a 90-minute tape of Das Ludicroix. Das Ludicroix was an improvisational band put together by the late Larry Boyd; they played what one reviewer called “Space Rock.” Given that they pretty much never knew what they were playing, it’s surprisingly good stuff. <\/p>\n
The tape Larry sent says it’s two albums — “Jammed and Stoning,” which is two 20-minute-plus jams entitled “Indications” I and II, and “Buzz Bomb,” which has four tracks with titles that don’t have anything to do with the music so far as I can see.<\/p>\n
Tape quality is excellent, the new Audacity doesn’t seem to crash — everything went very smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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