Sold Date: January 6, 2015
Start Date: January 5, 2015
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ARTIST: Scharpling And Wurster
TITLE: Rock, Rot & Rule
FORMAT: LP (Color Vinyl)
LABEL: Flannelgraph
CATALOG #: FGR-042

RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW
DESCRIPTION: Record Store Day 2014 exclusive: This LP captures a hilarious, hour-long radio "prank" perpetrated in Nov. 1997 by WFMU personalities Tom Sharpling and Jon Wurster (pre-"The Best Show"). Pressed on red vinyl. Limited to 1,000 copies.

“The idea for ‘Rock, Rot & Rule’ came during a phone conversation Tom and I had regarding people’s subjective use of superlatives. We wondered, “Why do some things ‘rule’ and some things ’suck’? What does it mean when something or someone ‘rocks’? Our discussion eventually led to the concept of Tom doing a short interview on his WFMU radio show with me assuming the guise of Ronald Thomas Clontle, the know-it-all author of a completely misguided rock reference book called ’Rock, Rot & Rule’ (we weren’t sure we could say ‘suck’ on the air). What we didn’t anticipate was that many of the people listening in that night in November of 1997 would assume Tom was speaking to a real author about a real book purported to be ‘the ultimate argument settler’ on the true worth of hundreds of musicians and bands. When we began taking calls from irate listeners things took a very unexpected and entertaining turn and our loosely-scripted little prank turned into the near hour-long epic you hold in your hands. Looking back, I really don’t think Tom nor I had any idea that what we were doing that night was the beginning of a twenty-year (and counting) partnership, but I’m sure glad it turned out to be the case. Here’s to twenty more.” – Jon Wurster

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