Track Listing

1. Pile Up All Architecture
2. Born on the Bayou
3. Your U.S.A. and my Face
4. (I Don't Wanna Go to) Vietnam
5. Flying
6. Nicaragua
7. Paris
8. Iran into Tulsa
9. Georgia in a Jug
10. Lucifer Sam
11. Signed D.C.
12. Instant Karma
13. She Was a Living, Breathing Piece of Dirt
14. Red Headed Stranger
15. When You Dream About Bleeding
16. Tau & the Soldier
17. Life's a Gas
18. Tray-Panning the Man
19. Hendrix Buried in Tacoma
20. How Can You Kill Me, I'm Already Dead
21. Vampire Tiger Girl Strikes Again
22. Pity Me, Sheena
23. Happy New Year
24. Our Metempsychosis

 

Description

Kramer's first band after leaving DAEVID ALLEN's NY GONG in 1980 was THE CHADBOURNES, an LSDC&W ensemble fronted by Eugene Chadbourne, with John Zorn, David Licht, and the late Tom Cora. That band eventually became a trio, got way louder and crazier, and re-named itself SHOCKABILLY after the departures of Zorn and Cora. They went on to sign with Rough Trade Records in 1982 and make 5 LP's together, all produced by Kramer.

This long out-of-print CD includes the last two of this great band's releases, 1984's "VIETNAM" (war & violence), and 1985's posthumously released "HEAVEN" (death & decay). Highlighted by a guest appearance by Ed Sanders of The Fugs on the Kramer-Sanders song "Nicaragua" (and recorded during the same time period that Kramer was working with Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg in the '1984 FUGS' reunion band and subsequent concert tours), this cd is an indispensable ingredient in the seemingly endless listings of musical recipes in the forthcoming Kramer cookbook.