To wind up the trilogy of podcasts related to the Herd Of The Ether Space live appearance on KPFA January 30th, 1990, here Taped Rugs presents recordings from the rehearsal session, held on January 28th at Taped Rugs studio.

Charles Rice Goff III, Killr “Mark” Kaswan, and Robert Silverman prepared for their first public (albeit over the radio) HOTES performance with a desire to show off a wide variety of instruments and sounds. Electronic guitars, digital keyboards, cello, phonographs, tape players, and three unique collections of sound effects are on full display in this program. While both the rehearsal and the radio performance were improvised, a collection of prerecorded sounds was prepared specifically to inject into the soundscapes for the KPFA show. These prerecordings helped to build frameworks for the live improvisations and, consequently, created some sonic similarities between the recordings from the rehearsal and those from the live radio performance.

Not long after their creation, the recordings made during the rehearsal were released to the public on the cassette album: “President Nixon Fights The Dope Scourge.” The 90-minute tape also included some older, previously unreleased, HOTES material and was co-released by Nihilistic Recordings of the Netherlands (Peter Zincken’s label, later renamed: “New Noise.”) Here Taped Rugs presents most of the first side of the cassette:

1 Organ In My Car
2 Spiro Slugs Drugs

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/PresidentNixonFightsTheDopeScourge