The Flexidisks of Extraordinary Gentlemen
So... futzing about on the internet for things to diminish productivity during lunchbreak, I came across mention of "The Sinister Ducks" over at The Alan Moore Store ... (where I was teasing myself with purchasing some piece of Mr. Moore's work that he had been kind enough to scribble his name upon...) and I found mention of an issue of Critters that included a flexidisk by a band featuring Mr. Alan Moore. Said band? The Afore Mentioned Sinister Ducks.
(Biographical Interlude)
For a while there I was mad for the Flexi's - while some of my collector nerd friends wanted vinyl of every color in the rainbow, I decided I wanted nothing but flexidisks.
(clumsy segue from biography into on-topic rambling)
Also from the comic book world - I got Tim Truman's Scout issue 19 (MISSY ROCKS!) with the "Blues Crusade" flexi, and subsequently bought the Tim Truman and The Dixie Pistols album "Marauders" when it came out....
{Comic Geek Interjection - GRIMJACK is Coming Back w00t!}
Somewhere I have a flexi of the Flaming Lips doing a cover of Bowie's "Life on Mars" that sounded like it was recorded under an overpass in Oklahoma City while 18 wheelers blaze by. I later found out this was due to my record player slowly dying.
Then there was the flexi of the reunited Bad Brains from some guitar mag in the early 90's (which was menh at best)...
And the at-the-time-Cream-of-the-Crop - 4 songs from Man Or Astroman that had only been released on a flexi that came with a B-movie/Surf Music fanzine (well, until their rarities CD came out).
But to have a sampling of Alan Moore's early musical output? (Since I'm too cheap a bastard to pay the eBay-o-riffic rates for a copy of The Emperors Of Ice Cream, if someone were mad enough to put it on there)
This would've been the dream of dreams. I've got a copy of the Highbury Working, which so far has been the only Alan Moore Music/Performance CD that my local comic shop saw fit to stock. But here he was (back in the day) working with David J of BauHaus!!! How cool would this be?
Well... thanks to the wonders of the internet, and the star-power clout of Neil Gaiman, The Sinister Ducks was made available to all recently. And what a wondrous thing it is.
For your listening pleasure:
March of the Sinister Ducks
This has replaced 1,2, cha cha cha as the song I constantly play at work to drive my colleagues slowly, frothingly insane.
That's been moved to my alarm clock song.
1 Comments:
This is a comment born of desperation.
Nearly twenty years ago, I got my hands on Tim Truman's album. A few years after that, the Dumbest Roommates In The Universe trashed my copy.
Since then, I've searched high and low for a copy.
I see that you had a copy, and I'm hoping you still have one.
If you do, please email me at aclipscomb@austin.rr.com. I'd like to discuss getting a copy.
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