Fifteen new tracks, girls and boys! I’m back on a roll, working my toward the present time (September 2007) by going through the back catalog of Telepathic Dumpster rehearsal tapes. As predicted, we are still playing “catch-up” in this Volume, featuring Basement Tapes tunes from late 2006 and early 2007. Volume 9 will be on its way soon! Enjoy!
--Carter
recorded Sept. 11, 2006
A rough improvisation that mostly consists of Carl’s spontaneous lyrics, which I find to be pretty damn amusing.
recorded Sept. 11, 2006
This is really just a short snippet of a melody line being played by a band that practices next door to us. I include it here because, for one thing, I like the line—it makes me think of demons. Also, it shows how goddamn LOUD our neighbors play that we can hear them so clearly through the walls.
recorded Nov. 26, 2006
Not to overdo it on versions of this song, but this is a really good take of this track—better, probably, than the one found in Volume 7. Or perhaps it’s just different. Hey, thanks to the Basement Tapes series, you can listen for yourself and decide! Or why choose one over the other when you could put both versions of “Work Sucks the Sex” (or all THREE versions if you include the one from Basement Tapes Vol. 5) on an endlessly repeating rotation on your computer or mp3 player? Hell, you could listen exclusively to the three versions of “Work Sucks the Sex” for the rest of your LIFE. Just a thought.
Hot Water
recorded Nov. 26, 2006
This is a work-in-progress recording, certainly the first night we’d ever played all the sections of this song put together in order, and perhaps the first time we’d played any of it at all. This is a composition of Carl’s that involves a few sudden switches of time signature. It is immensely catchy and I hope by publicizing it here in a somewhat rough form I will remind us all to work it up into a stage-ready hit!
recorded Nov. 26, 2006
The more “refined” (if such a word is even appropriate here) version of this interesting song, including full lyrics and a new musical bridge!
recorded Nov. 26, 2006
An amusing impromptu tune recorded on the original night of its inception. Not really a blues song, but what the hell? Also serves as ongoing proof that Carl Nash is a great turner of phrase: “Who brought that hound dog down to the Downtown Lounge?”
recorded Dec. 31, 2006
Carl’s latest awesome rocker! This is yet another of Carl’s songs that I will be stealing for use in SPIDERTRON 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO.
recorded Jan. 14, 2007
Endless is a great song, and this may be its debut on the Basement Tapes series—I don’t remember. [Editor’s note: Despite Carter’s forgetfulness on this matter, Endless first appeared in Basement Tapes Vol. 2.]
recorded Jan. 14, 2007
This spontaneous track, ostensibly about an individual called “Warthog Face,” is a lyrically and musically complex exploration of the workings of formal logic.
Hound Dog Blues (Alternate Version)
recorded Jan. 14, 2007
As the Basement Tapes aficionados among you will know, lyrical themes often recur in Telepathic Dumpster jams over a period of a number of rehersals or even months—see, for example, the “On the Beach” saga that occurs over Vols. 4, 5, and 6 of the Basement Tapes. So it is no surprise that the “Hound Dog Blues” idea should resurface, this time in a fantastic, groovy rock number that I would love to hear played live. It fuckin’ RAWKS!
recorded Feb. 11, 2007
A great song by Carl that I wish we played live more often. . .
recorded Feb. 11, 2007
A good version of a classic that I (obviously) don’t ever get tired of.
recorded Feb. 11, 2007
Finally with lyrics! A fairly solid rehearsal take of a Carter-penned tune that still [as of Sept. 2007] hasn't been performed much at shows. Hence it is a "rare" track! Ooooh!
recorded Feb. 11, 2007
Such a great song, and a concert rarity, so I feel justified in including two versions (from the same rehearsal night no less) in this Volume of the Basement Tapes.
recorded Feb. 18, 2007
In my book, there simply cannot be too many versions of this rocking tune out there. Despite the fact that we begin the track in the wrong key and have to start over about two minutes in, there is such great energy on this take, and such valuable information about demons, that I couldn’t resist including it—in fact, it will conclude Volume 8 of the Basement Tapes Series. Special bonus: check out the MASTER OF ROCK’s blistering solo just past the four minute mark!