http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:02:11 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/25/133122.php#comment-241191 He's history, JB 241191@blogcritics.org Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:02:11 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/25/133122.php#comment-11785 Trubee is a true renaissance man for the postmodern age. Besides the 7" single mentioned above, Enigma also released: "The Communists Are Coming To Kill Us!" (1984) "Naked Teenage Girls in Outer Space" (1985) Both LPs are by John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America. The first is a potpourri of one-off noise pieces, prank phone calls, ironic "poetry"/rants, and the occasional foray into melodic improv-jazz (a la Zoogs Rift.) The latter tends more toward structured songs with a laid back rock/jazz feel, with Trubee finding a sardonic lyrical voice on cuts like "Field of Corpses" and "Leper in the Shadows". Good stuff, Maynard. Also, a few more recorded prank calls are included. I know Trubee used to trade tapes - I still have a number of them, which are filled with spacey synth improvs and prank calls, respectively - but don't know if his address listed at the end of the article you hot-linked under 'John Trubee' is a current one. We haven't corresponded in quite a few years. 11785@blogcritics.org Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:01:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/25/133122.php#comment-11767 Here's a link to a story about jazz-er Ellery Eskelin's father who wrote the music behind these song poems and performed them too: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1045636 VO 11767@blogcritics.org Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:43:54 EDT