Here’s some disturbing music(?) by two early incarnations of the Singing Spoons. Most people remember us as a loud Crazy Horse/Husker Du type of band, but before that we were far more into noise and abstract stuff. This happened because none of us were very accomplished as musicians at all and partially because of hormones and high school insanity. First up is a cut from the second line-up of the Spoons which features me, Chris Gissendanner and Pat Barousse. The song “Vindicate My Scalp” is from our tape ‘Dyslexic Community’. This dates back to 1985. The lo-fi quality is due to being recorded on a radio shack mixer and cassette deck. Hi hat, Zither, Suitcase organ. In light of Pat’s recent birthday, I thought I would post one of his classics! Second up is a song by the Spoons after Pat had left to play with Insect Fear and before John Hintz joined the band. It was recorded in my bedroom at my parent’s house in 1986. I can only imagine what my parents thought when they heard the lilting strains of “Take the Bus You Hag” wafting down the staircase. This was recorded on a 4 track and features a trombone, a laughing idiot teenager and a cymbal playing monkey toy. Up for number 3 is an outtake from the ill fated 1993 Ultraboy opus ‘Jelvis’. This was a 10″ mini album that featured psycho jams and some great songs poorly recorded and even more poorly mastered. It is the first stuff ever recorded by me on 8 track. “Mr. Mosrite” never made it but I kind of like its weird wackiness as a sort of messed up surf song. Recorded in our practice space near FAMU on the shittiest of mixers. Kelly Shane, Chris Gissendanner and me.