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Howdy,
folks!
This is my ever so humble MERCHANDISE
PAGE!!
So far there's no mp3's or downloads available, but we're workin'
on it!
Soon will be an online ordering/payment system but for
now...
all prices are postpaid
u.s.
checks and money orders to:
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(NOTE: this is a new box # as of 2/2/06)
Please email me at spot@spotinator.com for additional
prices and ordering info. —SPOT
and
now, ladies and gentlemen...
the latest release!
"NAE
PLUMB NOR SQUARE" is a full album released in August of 2005
Originally created
without a title, this was put together in a semi-mad frenzy just before
my 2005 August tour. Having not released anything since "Unhalfbaking"
I decided it was high time to have something new to sell out on the
road and, since I've been performing mostly solo over the past few
years, the two full band albums that are in the can were kinda inappropriate.
This project features a gamut of solo and band recordings from a variety
of different sources—live, demo and studio—and was ultimately
titled according to a summation of structural engineering principles
as invoked by architect Eero Saarinen and utilized in the Gateway
Arch in St. Louis, MO.
"nae plumb nor square" (NYET-7007)
CD only—$14.00 pp
"Well,
this certainly ain't The Chieftains! ...this hybrid mixes
any number
of musical sources (bluegrass, country, punk, rockabilly) that all
seem to revolve around a Celtic base. The man makes some
very interesting
but very hard to describe music. Certainly worth a listen for the
musically adventurous."
—Dirty Linen (Aug/Sept 00' #89)
"Unhalfbaking
is a genius punk-folk record, sweaty and funny and
totally unpretentious...
...he heads down the eccentric post-Beat path (a narrow
one, through
dark woods) taken by the likes of Michael Hurley and
Peter Stampfel...
...[here's] proof that the elusive grail of tradition is as much in
the individual as it is in the cliches."
—Chicago Reader (May 26, 2000)
"...his
latest CD unhalfbaking is a masterpiece. Composition,
lyric, performance:
this album has it all. Even the liner notes are worth reading again
and again. ...this CD successfully fuses elements of
jazz, rock, folk,
blues, and celtic music into a coherent, highly
accessible package."
—Austin Celtic Assoc. Newsletter (1/ '01)
"UNHALFBAKING" is a full album released in
January of 2000.
This little gem is something I had been working on for years. Tim
Kerr lent me his Tascam 238 8-track cassette machine in the early
90's and I holed-up in the house with it for a few weeks and just
played, tracked, played, tracked... and ended up with a whole buncha
stuff that was originally intended to be no more than a collection
of "work-in-progress" ideas and/or demos (and by that
time I had bought a 238 of my own).
But,
y'know, sometimes during the recording process you come to realize
that the Performance is the Thing and what would be the
point in trying
to recapture That Thing later when ya already had That Thing? Let's
hear it for Dat Ding!! It all sounded pretty darn good,
nowhere near
as low-tech as the recording format suggests. And when
the guys from
O&O/Upland called
me and asked if I wanted to put out a record on their
upstart label,
I figured why not gather up that which already existed? Turned out
to be a good idea!
"unhalfbaking" (UP-001)
CD only—$14.00 pp
Whoops!
I forgot to mention that the album art was created by
Joey
Marez.
This is the first release where I had no clue as to what the cover
art would/should/could be. Having been a professional photographer
at one time (and now harboring boxes and boxes of prints
and negatives),
I usually have some image in mind when putting together a
new collection
of music. But this time? Uh uh. Not one idea tickled my conscious
brainworks. Thankfully, Mr. Marez bailed me out of this dilemma in
high style!
"REMOVALS..., OTHER ISMS" is an EP released in 1996.
The title refers to the name of my band, SPOT REMOVAL, which I had formed with Dave Cameron (drums) and Julia Austin (bass) in the early 90s. It had originated as an acoustic-based trio bending traditional Irish styles into new shapes. Over the course of time everything got more electric and louder and jazz-inflected. We recorded an entire studio album but, sadly, Julia had to leave the band. A few other bassists filled the void, most notably Kevin Smith (an alumnus of High Noon, Ronnie Dawson & 8-1/2 Souvenirs) whose utterly awesome upright slap technique pulled the band into more of a "country-billy" focus. Too bad this version of the band was never recorded; there is one track ("April") he appears on here, though.
Poetically (in a kind of Joycean sense), I released this under my own name since the band no longer existed and this was right at the time when the "notorious Dallas imposters" (see bio info page) appeared.Unlike "unhalfbaking...", this project began with the above graphic—something I kluged together from some old photos I shot. Thought it would make a good record cover... for something. Then, lo and behold! I realized that the outtakes from the studio sessions would make a great EP! Talk about walking half-asleep into a slap-upside-de-head realization...
It should be noted that two songs on this EP—"April" and "Countin' Flowers"—appear on "unhalfbaking" as well. BUT the versions here are absulutely, utterly, uniquely different recordings!
"removals..., other isms" (NYET-7006)
CD—$9.00 pp
10" vinyl—$10.00 pp
"YO! MARRY ME!" / "CACA BOUDIN POPO PIPI" is a single released in 1992
By now everybody's got some watermark memories of the early 90s. This is one of mine but I really can't tell you what the hell it means. I suppose after rampant 70s nostalgia and the now fond doting on the 80s that folks is gonna dig up some graves from the 90s. And there we'll find Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain decomposing over strong espresso with J. S. Bach and maybe Mr. Coltrane, and probably they'll be watching "Sun Ra Meets the Toxic Avenger" on video... while G.G. Allin knocks to deliver some, uh, pizza. Heck, in the early 90s I had accepted the curse of Frankie Gavin and thus my fate was sealed.In other words, the folkies cringed at this one and the grungies scratched their pointy little heads. L7 lit their loins afire, Seattle boys held guns to their heads and started playing their girlfriends' acoustic guitars, and Kerrville would never be the same and Lollapalooza somehow disappeared from view. But seriously folks, on the A side I took distorted (albeit respectful, really) liberties with another of those traditional Irish mandolin tunes. Side B is a tender love song often sung by Frenchmen to their dogs after a night of too, too much wine.
"yo! marry me!"/"caca boudin popo pipi" (NYET 747-3)
7" Sgl—$5.00
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