Basement Tapes are your new family. Let your incestuous desires run wild as you allow your ears to fondle this latest Volume of the Basement Tapes. The ghost of Jim Morrison had sex with your mom, and the ghost of Ted Bundy sez: LONG LIVE THE AUDIO CASSETTE!
--Carter
recorded March 2, 2008
An incredibly catchy number based on a cool, alternating guitar riff by Carl. If this song doesn’t make you want to have sex with a cheetah, I don’t know what will! [Editor’s note: This song would soon develop into Divergence—see below this Volume.]
recorded March 2, 2008
This version of Alien Warlord makes the version that appeared in Volume 11 of the Basement Tapes sound like a total shitheap. This one rocks so hard that its mere existence has irrevocably distrupted the time-space continuum. Fleem!
recorded March 2, 2008
Taskmaster is currently [March 2008] the greatest Telepathic Dumpster song. This may be its best recorded version yet. Listen to this or may your genitals have an unfortunate meeting with a weed-eater. Enjoy!
Sodomize A Hound Dog
recorded March 2, 2008
In 1956 Elvis Presley modified the lyrics of this song in order to arrive at his more mainstream-palatable #1 hit, Hound Dog. Then, five years later, in their early, pre-Ringo days gigging in Hamburg, the Beatles were often known to play the uncensored version of this classic tune before morally permissive German audiences. Now, at long last, the Telepathic Dumpster version can be heard by all!
recorded March 2, 2008
A song intended for the finale of SPIDERTRON 2, here is a solid version of Burn It To The Ground, with rockin’ guitar tracks and a brief lyrical nod to an old (pre-Dumpster) Carter-penned song called Fruitful. For those of you interested in hearing the evolution-over-time of this song, see also the 09-20-07 version in Basement Tapes Volume 10 and/or the largely instrumental 03-07-07 version called Burn It To The Ground (as mic check) back in Volume 9. I also think one more version is forthcoming.
recorded March 2, 2008
This song is here called Jarcia Jam because its lyrics are taken from an old song (cowritten by Emily and myself) called Harry Jarcia, and Emily had not yet come up with the song’s final title, Leprosy (see this Volume, below).
recorded March 2, 2008
You have two choices: either listen to this track or drink a vat of bat puke. That said, I think you’ll enjoy this largely instrumental number, especially if you’re into groovy Pink Floydian jams to listen to as you take your pathetic drugs and hang out with those slovenly whores you call friends! And indeed we do get a little Syd Barretish by the end. . . on the theme of a strange Anal Placenta. Good family fare!
recorded April 13, 2008
You’ve heard this instrumental progression before (in Basement Tapes Volume 4) as Sex With A Horse, wherein I sing about, well, making someone have sex with a horse. I have resisted performing this song live until we have some new lyrics to go with it that aren’t about bestiality under duress. . . I mean, bestiality is a great thing to sing songs about, obviously, but I have covered that territory elsewhere (in tunes like On The Beach and The Bumblebee Song) with much more inventiveness and panache than in Sex With A Horse. So this largely instrumental version is being committed to Basement Tapes immortality so that we in the band remember to write some lyrics and get this catchy rocker ready to play LIVE! [Editor’s note: I have it on good authority that Emily is working on some new lyrical concepts for this number. More to come.]
recorded April 20, 2008
This was recorded before our rehearsal proper had begun for the evening, and you can hear Emily discussing a booking matter with Carl as I play and sing my latest musical idea, Leper Bus. I am developing further lyrics for this one, so stay tuned!
recorded April 20, 2008
Really the best recording of this great song to date, with a special introductory message for all you Basement Tapes listeners.
recorded April 20, 2008
A fuckin AWESOME new song from the MASTER OF ROCK! Actually, we have played this instrumentally at rehearsals in the past, but only recently did Josh complete the lyrics and set the exact structure for this haunting tune.
recorded April 20, 2008
A great song based upon a chord progression and lyrics by Carl. I am hopeful that this will eventually get a proper digital recording and may even constitute the title song of Telepathic Dumpster’s next album after This Is The Same. For an earlier version of this chord progression, without Carl’s lyrics, see Get In The Dumpster, above.
recorded April 20, 2008
A short song that is really a glimpse into Carl’s songwriting process. [Editor’s note: In the second conversational half of the track, you will hear us mention a song of Carl’s called Yup Ba Gaday Eyop, which you can hear on Basement Tapes Volume 11 under the title: amusing dee-yah.]
recorded April 29, 2008
This track opens with me delivering an interesting melodic declaration, the Carl starts running us through his groovy three-part instrumental number. [Note from Carl: Math is apparently not Carter's strong suit, and while I assume that most of our listeners can count to four, I wanted to state for the record that this is a four-part instrumental number.] Not technically perfect but a really great listen if you’re into raping chickens.
recorded May 21, 2008
This is a more or less complete version of Leprosy, with a bunch of extra chorus singing in the middle of the track—we were just adding and learning the chorus vocals as you hear it here. For a previous, chorus-free iteration of this number, see Jarcia Jam (this Volume, above).
recorded May 21, 2008
This, finally, is Burn It To The Ground pretty much as it will go in SPIDERTRON 2, with me finally singing the correct lyrics in verse three. Enjoy, and see you for Basement Tapes Volume 13!