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City: PORTLAND
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/28/2005

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 
So the guys decide they want to tour. The best way to get shows is to put something out. Seeing as the difference in price between printing up a single and an LP is negligible they opt for an LP. So songs are spewed forth and a studio found - Bill Day in his garage just north of SD. The first album, "Of Thick Tum", is recorded in a couple days in march of '92. This is where the 2nd and 3rd albums, "Spasm Smash XXXOXoxox ox & Ass" and "Godspeed the Punchline" would be recorded as well. Glen manages to get hundreds of crappy albums from Off the Record in SD. The store couldn't sell them and they were taking up space. So now they don't have to buy sleeves. So while the vinyl is being printed up the boys begin transforming the old sleeves into dazzling trumans product. This is done by means of spray paint, glue, photocopies and lots of crayons. Of course, there were piles of old vinyl all over the house from the emptied sleeves. These would be used for hallway battles. This consisted of two opponents, placed at either end of a long hallway, flinging records at each other. The best tactic was to use one vinyl as a shield in one hand while flinging away with the other hand. Many a knee would be split. The sparkling new sleeves would be filled with whatever weird things would fit: X-rays, pages from Glen's military manuals, photos, strange fliers, kevin's dreadlocks... The first fifty handmade albums are sent to Cargo records in SD for distribution. Somehow, a guy at Cargo has the brilliant idea to send a few of them to Cargo in the UK. Then someone in Cargo Uk sends one to John Peel. John Peel, after a long day at home listening to tons of albums decides to put one last album on before going to sleep. It's Of Thick Tum. He loves it. He promptly plays it in its entirety on his next radio show and decides to call the boys for a live phone interview as well. Trumans has no idea what this will mean...
Ian Whitty And The Exchange

 
Of Thick Tum still sounds amazing today. It should get one of those fancy 20th anniversary re-releases. Except ye put all the extra tracks on the original cd anyway!

I'm holding out for the "Godspeed The Boxset"

-K
 
Posted by Ian Whitty And The Exchange on Friday, August 10, 2007 - 10:28 AM
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Dissolved

 
"Of Thick Tum" has to be one of my favourite records of all time. I've got one handmade one and the regular released printed sleeve. That John Peel broadcast was pretty unforgettable and I can still remember him trying to get through to you guys and getting answering machines and general confusion. That period has a lot of fond memories. Your record pretty much changed my listening habits from that point on and I've spent a long time trying to get everything I could by you on vinyl. Still a huge fan. Great to hear a history of the record, much respect. : )
 
Posted by Dissolved on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 2:01 PM
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Horrordactyl

 
very eager to hear part VI of this story - loved trumans water since seeing you with elastica as support in windsor,uk back in '93 i think. Constant spasm smash repetition has indelibly soaked into my subconscious now and many a jam occurs with me suddenly thinkin "hold on which one of their tunes and rambles am i sinking into now?" - return to these shores soon :)
 
Posted by Horrordactyl on Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 11:49 AM
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Free*Stars

 
Onwards wif L'histoire de L'eau de Trumans! (Er pardon my spontaneous fraynch trans ...)
Or ... the Ongoing Ballad of Thurman Swanner?

Hey, above episode, re: "Somehow, a guy at Cargo has the brilliant idea to send a few of them to Cargo in the UK."

I have a taped, subsequently published-for-public-record quote, circa 1992, that said "guy at Cargo" was one John Reis, aka "Speedo," "Slasher," "Swami," etc., of BackOff Cupids et al. fame. Dude told me, corroborated by others ... and he did labor in the Cargo salt mines for a spell; once when visiting said corporate offices in SD, I spied him filing/packaging/mailing product in the back, greeted the fellow, and he promptly furnished me with a clear (?) vinyl copy of the forthcoming debut longplayer of his post-Pitchfork modern sound combo Drive Like Jehu ...
-- Best, D*
 
Posted by Free*Stars on Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 6:28 PM
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m

 
This may be kind of a heavy request, but I've been a Trumans fan since the mid-nineties, and I was wondering: is there any chance you guys could post some of the following lyrics? I've been looking for the words to these songs for thirteen years! Any help you could give would be appreciated.

All Wet West of Washington
Hair Junk Fibre
Antsmashes Yer Star
Outpatient Lightspeed
Sucker Mystique

Thanks again and also thanks for all the great music!
 
Posted by m on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 4:02 AM
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