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2 Steps Backwards (Lawn Mower Dilemma)

from Late Octobra by John Tabacco

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2 STEPS BACKWARDS

Lawn Mower Dilemma © 1980 by John Tabacco

2 Steps Forward / 1 Step Back
Words and Music © 1988 by John Tabacco and Meryl Mathews
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC) / Zackeroo Music (ASCAP)

This montage features the first collage I ever recorded. A bizarre musical skit called "Lawnmower Dilemma". Most likely inspired by all those stupid lawn cutting jobs I'd take after school in order to make a few dollars to buy comic books and records. I recorded this on reel to reel back in 1980. It is somehow superimposed over the instrumental mix of "2 Steps Forward / 1 Step Back" which can be found in its completed form on the CD "Fuzzy Gray Logic".

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2 STEPS BACKWARDS (Lawn Mower Dilemma)

X: Won't someone please pick up my sister?
Please do?

Thank you whooooooo…

We're gonna put you away and take away all of your love!

Urrrrr!

I love you - myself...

JT : Aw, do I, aw do I have to mow the grass ma? It makes so much noise!

Mom: NOW!

JT : Oh alright. I'll just pull this little chord here... Uggh!

Ahhhhh!

What the?...

Oh no. I think I got another squirrel. Hey Mom!

Nick DiMauro : Let's try, let's try to achieve some kind of hyper realization ok? That, a it's there and we're aware of it. Holy cow!

God fearin' Merman : Amen.

Phone rings : Hello? Who? Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible, ya see the old "mulcher" just bit the bag.
I'm sorry. Please try again.

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from Late Octobra, released October 23, 2014
JT : Programming, various tape fx, vocals
Meryl Mathews : Keyboards
Mike Frost : Bass
Nick DiMauro : Hyper realization

2 Steps Backwards : Recorded at Backdoor Studios,
Huntington Station, NY - 1988

Lawn Mower Dilemma : Recorded on an Akai GX 4000D at
Suburban Hermit Studios 1, St. James NY - 1980

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

For more info : www.johntabacco.net
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