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| MUSICIANS THC—Hits Amidst the HissScott Spencer—bass Bruce Cameron—keyboards Joe Alonso Deleon—drums ninE legS—Hits Amidst the Hiss Dog & Bone—Hits Amidst the Hiss Dave Turnbow—acoustic guitar Moth—Hits Amidst the Hiss Savage Gulf—Hits Amidst the Hiss Fred Shepard—guitar & vocals Drew Jones—drums Ropes Stewart—congas This of That—Hits Amidst the Hiss Sean Kirkpatrick—vocals Jim Miller—vocals Living Room Combo—Hits Amidst the Hiss Dave Turnbow—bass & vocals Drew Jones—drums I.Q. Bonehead—Hits Amidst the Hiss Fred Shepard—guitar & vocals Pete Kassal—drums & vocals GUEST MUSICIANS ninE legS—Hits Amidst the Hiss Scott Spencer—guitar on “Overdose of Thanatos” Kevin Whitley—drums on “Overdose of Thanatos” John Ziegler—lead guitar on “My Baby’s Got No Legs” Moth—Hits Amidst the Hiss Living Room Combo—Hits Amidst the Hiss Sean Kirkpatrick—guitar on “Ego Drop [cool]”; vocals on “Caffeine Caffeine [rap]” I.Q. Bonehead—Hits Amidst the Hiss SONG CREDITS THC—Hits Amidst the HissAll words and music by David Turnbow ninE legS—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow Dog & Bone—Hits Amidst the Hiss “Castaway”—by Mark Thompson & David Turnbow Moth—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow Savage Gulf—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow except: This of That—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow except: Living Room Combo—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow I.Q. Bonehead—Hits Amidst the Hiss All words and music by David Turnbow except: THANKS RECORD INFO LINER NOTES Volumes 1 though 5—I had previously compiled most of this material for cassette copies, but the masters needed cleaning up for the digital medium. Hundreds of hours were involved in this process, as well as that of editing the “live” tracks from original master tapes. Masters and originals were on both cassette and reel-to-reel, both 2-track and 4-track. Some had already been transferred to digital tape (DAT or Betamax). I ultimately remixed most of the 4-track cassette music. Though this was lots of work, the only real difficulty was grouping the material. I had to realign a four-volume cassette collection into a five-volume CD collection. Some recordings were bumped to another volume, some were dropped and a few tunes were shortened. The fringe benefit of this was an expanded Volume Two, which now includes a Dog & Bone session and more unearthed Moth material. I was really looking forward to this volume, knowing that it would only take a fraction of the time, and also because it would serve as an introduction. What I didn’t realize was how difficult it would be to select the recordings. I divided the 70 minutes equally, so that each volume would be represented here by 12–14 minutes of music. Some choices were easy: “Overdose of Thanatos” and “Munchies ’85” are classics; “You Will Close Your Eyes” has a secret life as a performance piece, and “Roadtrippin’” is as good as it gets (in a lo-fi way). I made things a little easier by not including any songs which I didn’t have a part in writing; as a result, it didn’t hurt as much to leave off Sean’s “Solid World” (from Vol.3) or Steve’s “African Jam” (Vol.4). Some of the songs from my first decade as a songwriter/performer aren’t particularly interesting—at least in my renditions of them—and a handful are outright embarrassing. Sometimes my lyrics are overly clever, too subtle, too esoteric or (gasp!) too predictable. Musically, most of them are conventional American pop. My recorded legacy, basically, consists of: mock studio albums; demos masquerading as produced music; live tracks performed before an audience of few to none; and heavily-edited, self-indulgent jams. But no matter how wretched a recording might be, there always seems to be somebody out there who will dig it. This collection is for that somebody. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||