I saw The Church of God-Vision at Noise-a-Palooza ‘96 at UM, and recognized their impresario as Jeph Tiberius Hudsyn, publisher of SLAK magazine [mid-90s, kind of like a Grand Rapids version of Real Detroit, only, you know, funny].
I went up to him after the show and told him how much I enjoyed SLAK, and he promised to send me some stuff. Some stuff turned out to be an old-fashioned mixtape. Some music, some stuff apparently from a radio show or somesuch, and some found-sound.
My favorite bit was an authentic-sounding ad for New York Telephone’s “Annoyance Call Bureau” [the local phone company later known as NYNEX, then Bell Atlantic, now part of Verizon] that quickly turns blue while still sounding earnest [part of the same tradition as the “Check it — Peep Delta” parody ad that achieved a level of notoriety a few years back]. Based on the sound of the music bed I would guess an early-to-mid-70s vintage, but would appreciate clarification from anyone who knows it better than I.
After listening to it a few times, I realized that it would be nice to have it in a format that doesn’t potentially wear out each time I play it, so I took the tape over to the Victor Lams studio last night and he MP3’d it [and mastered it for maximum fidelity — it actually sounded a little worse before. I know it’s not fantastic now, but this must have been how many generations old? and it’s been in my car for, like, five years].
Here is the clip [996k, 1:04], and here is the only reference I could find to it on the internet until I wrote this. Note that my copy seems to be missing the lead-in and the last sentence, which is the way I received it [and I think the last sentence is kind of corny anyway].
