The Shithouse Masters - notes by Steve

batch 2
12/93 - 1/94

Alien Song - Square Hole - The Big Unknown - Playing With Bones - Aqualung (The Millers) - 11 (Sesame Street Counting Song) - Trouble Free - Testing Out The Mic - Flashing Lights - Weld - Oasis (Peru) - Potential Bong - Rabbit Theme - Where's My Mary? - Jurrasic

The second batch we recorded really quickly. Obviously the 4-track we'd recorded the first batch on had gone back to it's owner so we had to make do with a fairly knackered machine that my old piano teacher had given me - thanks to Johnny P Coolin who managed to get it working (after a fashion). The M.O. stayed the same, half the tracks recorded by Giles and myself, Albert and John lending a hand with the rest.

We had another pop at a Millers track (had we actually split up by this point?) and had a sideways swipe at our mates Peru with our country version of their Oasis. The ones we just knocked together invariably overshadowed the songs that we slaved over; most notably Potential Bong, a song inspired by a friend of mine who thought it was great to try to make bongs out of anything and everything.

Note the first occurrence of the phrase Rabbit Theme - a 30 second bit of pastoral banjo playing. Tracks Where's My Mary? and Jurassic highlight our 4 main obsessions at the time - funk, heavy metal, dinosaurs and girls called Mary.

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