SLIM THE DRIFTER - "Always (I Wish You Well)" (1992)

 

Slim The Drifter was not only a talented singer and songwriter, but he was also a friend of ours, and one of the few artists besides Hermano Guzanos who was on our Guzbro label. This collage was Slim's page from our 1992 catalogue.

I don't how many of these1992 four-song tapes Slim made, but I would guess it was probably only a handful, and this is just stripped down, bare bones Slim, singing and playing his acoustic guitar, just the way he liked it. The song presented here is going to surprise a lot of people with it's depth and plaintive mournful delivery. So here you go................

SLIM THE DRIFTER - "Always (I Wish You Well)"

NO PIGEONHOLES #202 -"5-13-90"

While I'm on the subject of Don Campau, here's some music from another one of his "No Pigeonholes" radio shows that were broadcast on KKUP in Cupertino, Calif.

This show aired on May 12, 1990, and like all of Don's shows, had an incredible variety of music.

 

Since 2011, "No Pigeonholes" has been on the air on KOWS, which is in Occidental, California. KOWS is the same channel that Lord Litter's "Magic Music Box" has aired on for the last couple of years.

Don's shows air on the 1st, 3rd, and fifth Thursday nights at 6:00 PM, and Lord Litter's show is on Sunday nights at 8:00 PM.

Don usually even sent out a full list of the participants, but I don't seem to have one for this tape, so all I can tell you is that this is the ultimate surf dirge by a band that I can't find out anything on. If Don has any useful info, I'm sure he'll gladly pass it on, and I'll update this thing.

On the broadcast, he says the name of this group is Load, but maybe it's Lode. He asks Jennifer who is in the studio with him, and she says they are from Tustin, Calif. but the lead singer had moved to Kauai, so your guess is as good as mine!

LOAD - "Catch The Wave Man"

DON CAMPAU - "Variety Show" (1985)

 

This was a tape Don Campau released in 1985 called "Variety Show," and man, is that the perfect title!

VDAORNIAELTDY  SCHAOMWP A U!

 

Without Don Campau, many of the people on these playlists would never had anybody hear their music. For a movement with no leaders, but only movers and shakers, Don and Lord Litter probably did more to spread the word than anybody I know. And what's even crazier is, they are both still at it!!

 

Talk about "Variety Show," this is a postcard Don sent me one time! So to prove this really was a "Variety Show," I'm including three songs, and each one of them is completely unique, different, and pretty damn cool! Don does most of the heavy lifting, but he's joined by Geoff Alexander on vocal and sax on one tune, and Greg Gray doing bass and percussion on one song, and destroying a chair on another one!

DON CAMPAU - "Lawrence Welk Meets Hocus Pocus"

DON CAMPAU - "Thing Goes Boom" 

DON CAMPAU - "Welcome To The Needle"

HERMANOS GUZANOS - "Baldman" (1991)

"UFO Executives" was a tape we made in 1991. Somewhere there's a review by a guy who didn't particularly like our song "Bald Man," but his girlfriend thought it was genius! Written and sung by Brian J. Riedel, here's our ode to all the chrome domes and Pelóns out there. 

HERMANOS GUZANOS - "Baldman"

 

I had this 1963 LP by The AFO Executives, and that's how we came up with the name UFO Executives!

 

A couple of years ago Brian made this video for "Baldman" to complete the package! I have never figured out why it never got played on MTV.

BUD KING - "Encyclical" (1994)

 

It's been a while since we've heard from Bud King, so here's a couple of hits off his 1994 CD titled "Encyclical."

 For these incredible sessions, Bud enlisted the talents of Thing I and Thing II on Guitars, Mick Ibburas on Bass & Guitar, Ambidexterously and in Unison. Indris Timbi on Wind Harp and Eastern Indianal Transliteration, and "The Leprechaun" Nick O'Tine on Drums, Cigarettes, and Black Coffee!

"Recorded by different people, in different places, at different times in order to maintain diversity."

BUD KING - "Pussy Cat Lounge"

BUD KING - "You Was Doing It"

MISSING LINK MUSIC - "Sampler Tape" (1989)

 

"Missing Link Music" was a worldwide effort to distribute music by independent artists that was based in Seattle, Wa. It was kind of like what Bandcamp is today, except there were no computers, or streaming music, so it was a lot more difficult.

This was a sampler tape of what you could find on the MLM label, and here's a couple of prime examples!

GO FISH - "God Given Right"

 

I couldn't find any current information on Go Fish, but I did find this picture of a tape on the Tape-Mag website by the band IOXOI. I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming it's the same band and there was only one band with that name.

IOXOI - "I'm A Dog"

HYPERTONIA WORLD ENTERPRISES - "Pop Collection 1" (1989)

 

"Pop Collection 1" was a various artistes compilation of independent music from all over the world, and all put together by J.R. Bruun in Norway in 1989.

The cover drawing was done by Sverre H. Kristensen.

 

 

I believe this is one of the first comp tapes Hermanos Guzanos contributed to. All total I think we were on 40 different worldwide compilations!

Some of the other people who contributed to this project were Venus Fly Trap from England, Le Lu/Lu's & Yo-Yo, also from England, Lord Litter from Germany, Trigger B from Germany, James Hill from the U.S., The Acid Dreams from Germany, Modern Art from England, and Rites Of Post from England, and that's just Side One!

 

Side Two included The Flatmates from England, Rattus Rexx from Germany, Political Asylum from Scotland, Johnson's Fiver from England, Kevyn Dymond & Mark Shafer from the U.S., Anastasis from Germany, and The Detective from England.

Here's the second song from Side One, a band from Denmark,

BRAVO DALTON - "Baby Shut The Red Lights"