Another Legend Sent Me Free Stuff
October 5, 2010
I first heard John Trubee‘s The Communists Are Coming To Kill Us one late night in Delta company. Delta company is no longer Delta, it’s Charlie or something and is the girls’ dorm. Interesting … there are teenage girls in “my” dorm room every night. Wow … teenage girls walk around that dorm in their underwear all the time … I couldn’t have imagined it would ever be so heavenly in there. Naked teenage girls in the Company-Formerly-Known-As-Delta showers. Every day.
They don’t even need to be naked. They can be in uniform – military or prep school – and it’s still beautiful to imagine. As a teenage boy, anyway. As a 41-year-old man it’s just … *ahem* amusing … if I were to even think about it. Which I don’t. And didn’t.
This album is all but impossible to obtain legally and just as difficult to find an “illegal” copy (if out-of-print albums count as “illegal”) online – believe it or not. I did find an interview he gave to some talentless college “DJ” in which he promised to send free stuff to anyone who sent him an email. The interview was several years old but I took a shot. Not only did this genius email me back but kept his word and sent as much stuff as he could cram into a padded envelope.
Apparently, it arrived weeks ago and my wife never told me. She frequently opens my mail (irritating) and puts it somewhere without letting me know it arrived (even more irritating). I’m not complaining – I’m really surprised she didn’t throw it in the trash considering it was filled with pictures of naked women and devils (sometimes having sex with each other as they do on the flyer for the Satanic/Tantric Valentine Massacre of Love gig in San Francisco). I once ordered a Koran and Islam study guide from freekoran.com and she threw it right in the garbage.
What is this album like? It’s like The Church of the Subgenius’ weekly Hour of Slack but with less organization and planning and yet like Frank Zappa but more accessible and daring.
On the other end of the musical spectrum is the alterna-folk Christian Music® masterpiece Journey to the Center of the Earth by Nicholas Giaconia. He’s famous for making this one amazing album and then disappearing from the face of the Earth. After years of searching, I found him and he sent me a copy of his follow-up album recorded under a different name (Mattie Groves).
