Monday, November 29, 2010

With Only 40 Years Left to Live, It's Time I Finally Got Around to Digitizing My Cassette & Vinyl Collection [Part 1]











Al Perry & The Cattle - Fraidy Cat (cassette, 1986)

Nearly sixty minutes of sloppy lo-fi cowpunk instrumentals recorded on a cheap ass four-track with a portrait of Link Wray looking on in approval. Each sans-vocal track is a mini masterpiece, with the average running time barely eclipsing the two-minute mark. The range of sounds go from punk (with a hint of blues) to country/western (with a dash of punk) to blues (with a smidgen of surf) to noise (with a blast of noise wrapped in a deep-fried tortilla made of noise). This is quite possibly the greatest local release to ever come out of Tucson, AZ. If you aren't interested in hearing it, I will pee on your grave.

3 comments:

Mark Taylor said...

Wow. Thanks for that. Amazing stuff.

caitlinvs said...

You are an inspiration, sir! I've done a few records but it takes SO LONG. And everything seems to skip, even records that look pristine. What do you recommend for digitizing tapes? I could start with the Hecklers...

Disco:Very said...

For skipping, I recommend **drenching** the record with Discwasher fluid (you can find it on Amazon in a cheap 3-pack). I kid you not: drip that shit all over the vinyl and leave it on while digitizing. Almost without fail, that record will NOT skip.