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| | | family vineyard (usa) #fv 27 cd human skab “thunder hips & saddle bags” compact disc - screamin’ demon
- drunk and staggerin’ around
- throwin’ rocks at windows
- grandest fight of the year
- mining the radiation
- go for it
- dead baby blues
- playin’ guitar best i can
- under the viaduct
- bullheads are ugly
- africa song
- john wayne is dead
- eat my skabs / song of the century
- death of the dinosaurs
- we need to destroy the soviet union
- guitar of africans
- first kid to hit the radio
- phone goof off
- bein’ bad
- piano concert
bonus track ::
- “the human skab peeled back”
wzbc 1987 radio special
| february 2010 release ; first “proper” issue of this cult tape from the mid-80s, covering the antics of an honest-to-goodness 10-year old child, heard here running around with a tape recorder, banging on things (detuned guitars, piano, bottles, accordion) & generally being a bad-ass / telling it like it is ...
the whole thing exudes a certain shaggs-ian charm, it’s as telling a time capsule of the paranoid mid-80s mind-set as you’re likely to hear ... plus the “naive” sub-alga-marghen klang is pretty hot throughout ... |
| | family vineyard press release... |
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human skab
thunder hips & saddle bagsfv27 cd
human skab was a 10-year old boy from elma, washington who played african music with buckets and spoons. thunder hips and saddle bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young travis roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. it was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college djs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. skab's music -- an orchestration of pots n' pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "snake mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the soviet union, he-man cartoons, twisted sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of john wayne, and ronald reagan. roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early american folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song.
these rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. this reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. the cd version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. the 16-page booklet in the 500 edition lp and cd contains liner notes by roberts and cousin franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings.
as bruce pavitt wrote in the 1986 sub pop zine:
| the skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. he hits the family piano with his fists. he tries real hard to play guitar. he makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. cool! |
release: february 23, 2010 |
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