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SPIELGUSHER
SELF-TITLED "SPIELGUSHER"
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS, 2018 2-LPS
"Spielgusher represents the meeting of two of America's great artists, Richard Meltzer and Mike Watt. 
There is additional musical accompaniment by guitarist Hirotaka Shimizu and drummer Yuko Araki, but the basic semiotic brunt of this meeting is shouldered by Richard and Mike. 
A collaboration between the two had been postulated back when the Minutemen still walked the Earth, but that dream was canceled with D Boon met his tragic fate in December 1985. 
Still, Meltzer and Watt kept in touch and tried to think of what they might do together. 
Around 2011 they arrived at solution. 
Richard had recorded a bunch of material for Mike, and Watt finally decided to go into the studio with a couple of his Japanese musician pals to cut a long set of jams and splats to go along with the words. 
Mike put the finished session, also called Spielgusher, out as a CD on his own clenchedwrench label, but we never really felt a though that release got into the hands or ears or brains of the many folks who'd dig hearing it. 
Consequently, here is a 2LP reprise of the set, with lovely new cover art, provided by Raymond Pettibon (another long-time Meltzer fan, and one who actually witnessed the debut performance of VOM at Kahuna's Bearded Clam, back when we were all a lot younger). 
Meltzer's words range from hilarious to shocking, and anyone who has attended one of his readings will agree that his performance is fully on point here. 
The musical inventions the trio tosses up to meet his words are fantastic - abstract or pointed at various times, melodic or noisome as befits the mood, but all with the compact econo lines that are Watt's stock-in-trade. 
There are perhaps some out there for whom Meltzer's poems will prove to be stronger word-meat than they are used to, but most of us are surely made of stronger stuff. And this album will be welcome manna to ear-teeth everywhere. Chew slowly and see." --Byron Coley, 2018. 
Edition of 500.
Track Listing: A1. THIS LIMP TEMPTIN TALKED  A2. the threshold of transgression  A3. BEGINS WITH S  A4. SO WHITE  A5. LIFE  A6. RED SKIRT  A7. enter my thumb  A8. SCISSORS  A9. FUCK AWARENESS WEEK  A10. USE  A11. SCRAM THE ME SCENE  A12. topsy, part 4  A13. GEEZEROLOGY  A14. GENERIC DEATH POEM  A15. MINUS FIVE AND COUNTING 
B1. GOTTA  B2. a nonfatal jackoff on the moon  B3. COLUMBUS  B4. KEROUAC  B5. HALF  B6. ABOUT  B7. ALWAYS  B8. portlandium  B9. LARD  B10. MOROSASHI  B11. THE MAN WHO THOUGHT DEATH WAS DYING  B12. LAS WILL AND TEST  B13. albanese  B14. RED HERRING  B15. RAISED AND SHOWING 
C1. SEVEN SEAS OF LOVE  C2. the flight of gregory corso  C3. IF YOU DON'T  C4. OUT OF SMOKES  C5. THE SONNY LISTON FAN CLUB  C6. PERSON WHO'S DEAD (FOR WILD MAN FISCHER)  C7. whistle while you strobe  C8. CHOWDER, ANYONE?  C9. THE VALIUM RESTAURANT  C10. METAL  C11. TROPIC OF NIPPLES  C12. BOTTOMLESS  C13. permenides  C14. MEETCHA  C15. THE ATTICS O' MY LIFE 
D1. PROPS  D2. GOOD FIGHT  D3. jessie don't like fish  D4. O.K. WITH YOU?  D5. THE THREE OF US  D6. HEAVEN SOMETIMES BEER  D7. TEXAS  D8. hopper meets sparky  D9. FUCK MY SISTER  D10. HOME AT LAST  D11. PREMENSTRAL  D12. SICK PERSON'S CAR  D13. surf pus  D14. CORDUROY  D15. ART PEPPER IS NOT A HAPPY MAN  D16. VEINS  D17. PIXTURES, PLEASE!  D18. neck like a slick tulip
- Feeding Tube Records presents a reissue of Spielgusher's self-titled album, originally issued in 2011 on CD - Spielgusher represents the meeting of two of America's great artists, Richard Meltzer and Mike Watt.  - Meltzer's words range from hilarious to shocking, and anyone who has attended one of his readings will agree that his performance is fully on point here.  - The musical inventions the trio tosses up to meet his words are fantastic - abstract or pointed at various times, melodic or noisome as befits the mood, but all with the compact econo lines that are Watt's stock-in-trade.  - Additional musical accompaniment by guitarist Hirotaka Shimizu and drummer Yuko Araki, cover art by Raymond Pettibon.  - Edition of 500.
New Condition - Never Played - Sealed
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