TLASILA Flood: Live, Churchill's, Miami (15 Oct 94)
(Amended April 4, 2007.)
This is the third in our recovery series of fleetingly offered, quickly deleted TLASILA rarities first posted in early 2006...
One major difference: Ben Wolcott was in fact present, but sidelined due to an equipment failure. Such difficulties were unfortunately rather familiar back in the day, as most of our gear was cobbled from frayed fat hip-hop laces and corroded flashlight batteries...
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To Live and Shave in L.A. - Live, Churchill's, Miami, Florida, Saturday, October 15, 1994.
Okay, so this isn't an album's worth of previously issued, out-of-print material. I've simply run out of time. Spring break has arrived, and although I'm not traveling out of the state (I'll be writing papers instead), I will be away from my high-speed broadband connection for a week. (Cyn's DSL is poky by comparison; uploading is basically impossible.)
These caveats and gripes noted, please accept this remastered, newly buffed, previously unissued, minimally edited TLASILA concert as a token of our affection and appreciation.
It was a great time for us musically, but the recording industry -- especially within its devoutly, self-professedly independent sub-sectors -- was already showing signs of aversion to assimilation. In retrospect, this augured well for us. At the time, however, it was a source of great annoyance. We wanted to be heard...
We'd only recently wrapped Prostitution Heute!, the follow-up to 30-minuten männercreme, and had begun tracking our second full-length album, the ill-fated "Helen Butte" vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell.
Michael Bull's Nightcap label sundered before Heute could be issued, and "Helen Butte" would ultimately be discarded by Ann Arbor's Bulb Records before washing ashore at Full Contact, a (very) short-lived subsidiary of Fifth Column. Those were miserable experiences, but they provided valuable lessons...
Rat Bastard played the bass. I sang and created the backing tapes.
Ariya Okomoto (then a member of Miami dream-pop cabal Snatch the Pebble) was the live engineer; he recorded the set for us.
(Ben Wolcott, as noted above, was forced to sit out the performance...)
The concert is complete. I edited the performance into five bite-sized chunks; deafening between-song silences have been excised. We always preferred a stagger down Brevity Prospekt - thirteen minutes was about average for us. We'd crush, gulp a cup of piss, then bolt. No mucking about.
01 I Suppress Nothing
02 Wanna Bust Up a Virgin Ass?
03 Modified Stock
04 58, Pumphand
05 Moschino Powerslum
06 "Free Bird" loop (bonus)
"I Suppress" and "Wanna Bust Up" would surface on Butte. Studio versions of "Modified", "Pumphand", and "Moschino" were recorded for Prostitution Heute! The "Free Bird" loop is exactly what you might expect, and it was made from ragged extracts just for you.
(30.5 MB, ripped at 320 kbps, and compressed to RAR.)
Get it here.
Enjoy (if possible), share, etc.
Best,
Tom
