JT, ND, LT (road trip across the USA in a Red Suburu - 1986):
JT : Signs? Neat "I-deer"! Why back at home we have to scream for every exit.. EXIT 7! Hey!
(laughter)
ND : The guy on the corner - whenever a car goes by : EXIT 7!
Scotto: Uhhhhhhhh!
Drive me down....
THERE THEY WERE
Sri and Arty Rukidin :
There they were. The two of them. Sailing in a mud puddle in a
paper dixie cup boat. The two of them oblivious of each others
feelings. Sharing nothing. There they were. The two of them. Two
museums with no clue of how they depended on one another. One
had a Louie the 14th table as a chest. The other a Tiffany™ lamp
for a hair piece. Together they formed a unique medallion in the
reflection of a squirrel’s eye. Witnessed by a baby rolling on the
grass.
Marci Geller : Marce iz sane, marce iz sane, marce iz sane, marce iz sane.
Sri and Arty Rukidin :
Yes, listen. There they were. The two of them. Two museums with
no clue of how they depended on one another. They spin dry in
the wind bumping into one another. Sparking. Igniting. Inviting a
curious notion in the dreams of a foreigner on a bus to purgatory.
Sand paper clusters smoothing out the threatening clouds dusting
far beyond the means of breathing. Never stopping once to think
of the impending danger of suffocating our unlikely pair. Not even
the baby over there gets it. Yes, there they were. The two of
them. Two museums with no clue of how they depended on one
another. There they were. The two of them. With no clue.
JT :
Everybody Suffers The Bottom Line
Everybody suffers it’s a well known fact.
Everybody suffers it’s a well known fact in this world
In this world
Everybody suffers it’s a well known fact.
Everybody suffers it’s a well known fact in this world
In this world
How long can we keep holding on?
How long until we give it up?
Maybe there’s a reason that we can’t explain
A perfect beast maybe the end results of pain in this world
In this world...
The “I Can Hardly Hold My Food Down” / Meryl Mathews /
Teddy Kumple 1995 improvisation Interlude plays here...
L. Ron Hump (as a younger man) :
La La La La La!
Well I gotta work. And I gotta feed. And I gotta
work and I got no time to read. And I only got two
days a week to be alive. And I gotta go back to
work and that’s the bottom line. Gotta work. Gotta
feed. Gotta work. Only got two days a week.
And that’s the bottom line.
JT and FST : This small change is reflected best perhaps in the
sand dollar which shrank to almost nothing at the
bottom of the pool.
Well that’s the bottom line.
Susan Battley : It’s the bottom line.
LRH : But that’s the bottom line.
SB : It’s the bottom line.
LRH : But that’s the bottom line.
SB : It’s the bottom line.
LRH : But that’s the bottom line.
SB : It’s the bottom line.
LRH : But that’s the bottom line.
SB : It’s the bottom line.
ND :
I keep the cash in my pocket.
I like to keep it next to my wallet
If you get it you have defeated me
But I can get it from the woman who created me.
Nigey Lennon : Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...
So anyway, I got hold of this now defunct record
label and they indeed were interested. Hashed out the terms of a contract and it was, you know a fairly good deal for me. Problem is, being a small label I never saw any money (laughs). But that’s another story.
Mr. Edison : What was... what was the label?
Nigey Lennon : Ahh, well I guess we can talk since they are defunct.
It was called Muffin Records. They’re in Austin, Texas. And ahh,
it was quite - quite amusing dealing with them. Ah, very
strangely little run operation (laughs). Ah, kind of surreal.
Wouldn’t you say John?
JT : Yahh, surreal.
SB : It it it it it it it it it it it it it it it’s the bottom line.
More montage and MM and TK improvisation along with
“There they were” and SB saying : “It’s the bottom line”
Letty Fores :
Please fence me in. Please fence me in.
Please fence me in. Please fence me in.
Please fence me in.
Nigey Lennon : What it is, is both of us had started out working in our
respective bedrooms as kids with tape recorders at different times.
Memphis Pie Hat :
An instrumental from 1982 I wrote out and got my sister to
play flute on. It was recorded on that respective tape
recorder Nigey was talking about : The Akai GX-4000D.
JT : Some days I hardly have money
Some days I walk around broke with nothing to eat
But then a dollar bill blows by
It's just enough to keep me from starvin'
Though I know I could follow in the footsteps
of Father and Mother and teachers of old
And fall into a safe routine
I can't get past what my heart really feels
So then I - I go back downstairs and mumble into this microphone in hopes that something good comes out
While all the time the world goes on indifferent to me
I guess that's just the bottom line of this reality
Nobody cares about the music I make unless it makes a ton of green
That's the bottom line!
Quartet singing over an 11/4 ostinato : It's the bottom line!
JT, Chris Pati and interviewer Deena Charles on WHPC, Hoftra University Radio 1987:
DC : So how do you put yourself into a good frame of mind? Do you just-a wake up in the morning, take a few minutes to thank God and thank the Universe for what you have...
CP : I do that all the time. I always thank God for - for everything I have been given in my life and that I've been able to acquire through being intuitive and being able to ... you look like you are about to laugh...
JT : Nothing it's great! I was just gonna say "Carrots". Big screaming carrots will get me in a great frame of mind.
DC : Eat a carrot it might taste great!
JT : I must have been a vegetable or something and ate it all up.
CP : (laughs) Well I got a good line but I'll pass on it.
DC : (laughing) : Part of that overflowed into this life some time.
CP : Something along those lines - we have to work together like...
JT : Things are really really abstract sometimes. I don't know.
CP : Carrots, hah?
JT : Yeah...
CP : OK.
DC : Oh Boy! What advice um... I'm gonna ask both of you this because I'm sure you both have different answers...
JT : Money.
CP / DC : (laugh)
It's the bottom line...
credits
from Hits Duh Bah Tomb Lion,
released September 30, 2014
JT : Vocals, Programming, Acoustic guitar
Laura Tabacco : Flute
Susan Battley : The Bottom Line,
Meryl Mathews : Keyboards
Teddy Kumple : Expansion Guitar
Letty Fores : Vocal on "Please Fence Me In"
Nigey Lennon : Muffin Talk with Mr. Edison from WUSB 90.1 fm,
Recorded, mixed and edited at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY
Memphis Pie Hat :
Recorded at Suburban Hermit Studios 1, St. James, NY
Balloon Farting Contest :
Recorded, mixed and edited at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY and Suburban Hermit Studios 2, Stony Brook, NY
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