WARNING: THIS PODCAST CONTAINS SOME ADULT THEMES AND IS NOT MEANT FOR CHILDREN

As promised in the previous excerpt of this podcast series, here Taped Rugs presents a 45-minute recording from the August 11th, 1990, Herd Of The Ether Space performance at the Ohana Cultural Center in Oakland, California. This is the only surviving recording from the show and represents about half of the total performance. A significant portion of the beginning of the show and a slight portion of its ending were not recorded. Up until right now, this recording has never been made available to the public.

The recording began as members of the audience joined George Gibson, C. Goff III, Killr “Mark” Kaswan, and Robert Silverman for a marathon of paper and cardboard tearing. Prerecorded tapes of paper being torn, keyboard samples of tearing paper, and live ripping made up this cathartic collage, entitled: “Tears For Your Ears.” Goff has always had a nervous reaction to the sound of tearing paper, and this piece was intended to exorcise his demons. It left the venue in a huge mess, but after the show, all the bits of torn paper were collected and taken to the recycling center. As for Goff’s demons, they vanished briefly but returned after the performance.

An intermission followed “Tears For Your Ears.”

Next up, the Ether men hosted a Dadaist square dance entitled: “Psycho Hoedown.” Conjuring up a drugged cowboy rhythm, the group provided Goff with an appropriate backing for a throatful of very odd square dance calls. Silverman’s use of keyboard samples created from phonograph records colored this piece in a transcendent shade of gingham.

Ric E. Braden then joined the group to help provide some audio coloring to a Killr Kaswan lecture on Kegel exercises. Naturally, Kaswan encouraged the audience to participate in this threat to public morality, entitled: “Tipper Gore Aerobics Lesson.” Of course, in 1990, Tipper was not yet the wife of a Vice President/Nobel Prize Winner; she was, instead, the face of the “Parents Music Resource Center” which brought warning labels to the music industry.

George Gibson introduced the final piece, an unadulterated improvisation, which had all the elements needed to be named: “At The Space Bar (Version 3)”. Unfortunately, the ending of this ethereal piece was not recorded.

THE AUDIO COMPONENT OF THIS PODCAST HAS BEEN REMOVED TO ALLOW MORE EPISODES IN THIS SERIES TO BE POSTED. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE LINK BELOW:
http://www.archive.org/details/DadasLittlePsychoandDadasLittlePsychosRelatives