Hey! I just finished the cd jacket illustration for the new musical fun-feast being served up by Crummy, Pooey, and yours truly! The forthcoming Goosepoop offering is called Houses of the Homely. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover. Music so awesome it’s guaranteed to make John Bonham leap out of his grave and bitchslap Plant and Page for being a couple of pansies.
Alright, it may be difficult for me to put into words the exact way I’m feeling at this moment but I’ve literally just been handed the Lardgut Bible! For the ill-informed, Lardgut is the brand name that has stained the majority of entertainment product which has spilled out of the minds of my friends and I over the past 25 years!
This is a self-indulgent rant because, let’s face it, obviously this stuff is going to hold a sentimental value to me that just won’t connect with anyone outside of our circle of imbecils. My buddy, Crummy, just handed over a cardboard box that contains a four-track recorder, a drum machine, sequencer and HOURS UPON HOURS OF UNMIXED LARDGUT MATERIAL ON CASSETTE!! I’m talking about old Punky Boobster material, old Goosepoop material, God Dog sessions, drunken jams…it’s ridiculous how much time I’m going to waste pouring over this stuff, but suddenly I feel as though it’s my obligation to chronicle it all, remaster it and put it to disc. I wholeheartedly apologize to my wife in advance. I’m going to be a kid in a candy store!
Here’s recently completed cover art for the new Goosepoop album. With only one track left to record vocals on, Coffee Enema should be completed by Christmas. Exciting stuff, eh?
Talk about your irony. After mentioning him in the last post it turns out that Lardgut co-founder, Joel Syvrud (the hardest-rocking podiatrist in show business), will be joining Crummy and myself in the bowels of Goosepoop studios this weekend as we continue working on the latest cd.
Syvrud, pictured above on the left with the hairdryer, is known to many in the local underground music scene as the “dirty” Michael Jackson, although in this writer’s opinion he rocks more like a young Robert Urich. (Incidentally, this picture was taken over twenty years ago before the weight of the world crushed his spirit.)
I’m not sure what direction the band will take with the addition of this new catalyst, but my hopes are that instead of resisting our bourgeois urges like we did on our last disc, we embrace them and call the album, “Anyone Going to Starbucks, Because if You Are, I Could Use a Half-Caf Latte!”
I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers Spinal Tap being a very big influence on their life when they were a kid. I remember it was 1984 and I saw this article in a magazine in the school library about this forthcoming mockumentary. I was 14 years old. I convinced a handful of friends that we HAD to see this movie when it came out. Brother, I would never feel the same way about how I approach making music ever again!
That’s why I was so excited to hear that SPINAL TAP was working on a 25th Anniversary “comeback” album. Then, today I read this in Billboard…Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are leaving the costumes and wigs at home but will still play the music of their cinematic alter egos Spinal Tap, as well as the Folksmen from “A Mighty Wind” on a 30-date concert tour this spring. How awesome is that?!
The six-week theater trek, dubbed Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, kicks off April 17 in Vancouver and runs through May 31 in Milwaukee. Tickets go on sale starting Friday (March 6).
“We’ve never gone out as ourselves,” Shearer said Monday during a webcast teleconference at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. “It’s interesting; after playing characters all these years, we’re having meetings trying to figure out who WE are…We have to ask ourselves, ‘What would WE do?’”
The shows’ repertoire will be drawn from the two Spinal Tap albums — “This is Spinal Tap” and “Break Like the Wind” — as well as the soundtrack to the Guest-directed “A Mighty Wind.” At the press conference Guest, McKean and Shearer played a short set that included Spinal Tap’s “Hell Hole” and “Sex Farm” and “Old Joe’s Place” from “A Mighty Wind.”
Hey, chumps! I’m delighted to say that all of the tracks for the forthcoming Goosepoop cd have been recorded and are being given the final spit ‘n polish! Originally titled “Your Inner Burt Bacharach” it has been re-titled EL QUATRA and is a follow up to our previous releases Forgot To Flush, Fat Out Of Hell, and Ringing The Monkey Bell! It’s plenty stupid and is very pertinent as it follows a years worth of musical stupidity leading up to Pooey leaving town to become a carney! I’ve scheduled this 30-song opus to be released around the same time as Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” and AC/DC’s “Black Ice” so we can take a little starch out of those stuffed shirts! However, they probably don’t have to sweat it TOO much as we probably won’t press more than 20 or 30 of them! Check out some of the early tracks at: myspace.com/goosepooptheband
That’s all for now. More details to come! And remember, Goosepoop mania starts here…won’t you help?