Young and Innocent Days
Swamp Room Records
Eugene Chadbourne- gtrs., etc.
Gregory Acker- tables, etc.
Todd Hildreth- organ, etc.
Andy Rademaker- bass
Steve Good- clarinet, etc.
Gary Pahler- drums
Dean Zigoris- mellotron, etc.
Chadbourne, some members of Ut Gret
and others make an lp employing overly
ambitious 10 year olds’ concepts of psychedelia. That’s just the starting
point.
It’s a roller coaster ahead and the kids-now-adults are well fueled for the
ride. Then
they start driving the thing. I’ve never heard the Grets or Chad do
conventional song
structures before. It’s true alternative rock with a nod to Half Japanese.
Like them, it
celebrates amateurism and arrested development. It’s
all covers here: Donovan, the Stones,
other sixties stars these guys grew up with. Mom
and Dad have left the den and the house
and the state and you and your young friends (kids, not adults?) realize
they’re gone for days.
Then they’re gone for your whole life but you’re still 10.Then there’s the
roller coaster yet to come. All of this on two see-thru psych-colored el pees
with artwork drawn by whacked middle schoolers. Limited to 1,000 copies. You
couldn’t produce this on a mass scale. Enjoy and bring plenty of Kool-Aid. The
rec room never had it so good.
Swamp Room Records
Auf Dem Loh 18
30167 Hannover