Jambox Songs:
Classical Music
Hoochie Coochie Poochie
(Don't Funk With Our) Fame
Plucktress
Rendered Pimpless
Sweet Weaving Dancer
Remember Me
Change Me Blues
Party Right Now!
Believe In Me! (A Foxtrot)
Why Don't You Take It Off?
Coda To The Code of Admirable Puff
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Background of the recording
Jambox was already over as far as I was concerned by late 1979. I had been interested in punk rock for some time now, and the Jambox scene was getting a little too dark and drunken for me to accept as uncritically as I once had. Plus, we had a string of beautiful failures behind us that were pretty convincing that the joke was getting old, and believing in something as delusional as world fame for Jambox was just a little sad. So even though we were kind of suspended in a stoned orbit somewhere between being a sarcastic little joke and really aspiring to greatness, I had enough and quit the band.
Fo Jammi was making good money waiting tables at Balabans back then, and he decided to finance one real recording at last for the band, which I found incredibly touching. Fo Jammi and I had been good friends since high school, and I could hardly believe he wanted to waste good money capturing forever the whirling off-key insanity of Jambox.
Personnel
Dice Mosely - for MCing the light
Dice was this huge bearded guy who lived with us in the Funk Labs who had a big low country sounding voice. He does the spoken intro on the first song, Sweet Weaving Dancer.
The Changels
Sue “Cruisin’ Susan” Leonard
Jozie Christen
Tammy “Jambait” Why-Not?
There was yet another Changel, Annie Byrne, who I was in love with. I can’t remember why she didn’t make the recording. These wonderful girls also did a rap song. We proudly billed them as the first all-girl rap group when we played VFW Hall 555. This was only months after Rapper’s Delight formally started the rap music fad that has grown to become such a very big deal these days.
Professor Lobotomy - Harmonic Thought Control
This was me. I actually played the guitar and sang.
Rico De Bool - Suboctave Organization
Rico played the bass, as you might be able to infer.
Slash Brannon - Violence and Vocals
He was the leader of the band, a crazy drunken poet who lived to party. His total abandon to hedonistic delight led to some fun and crazy times, but had to stop being fun for me sooner or later. My most vivid memories of him are watching him literally fall down dead drunk on the floor in the middle of a song, and of sitting in the weak winter sunlight playing acoustically together, just we two.
Fo Jammi - Persynthocussion & Party Museum
Fo Jammi played the drums, a huge old Dixieland style set he bought from Thom Stickney, and an Arp synthesizer. He may have already been playing with Wax Theatricks by this time, as well. Fo Jammi was amused by the slapdash insanity of Jambox though, and he stuck with us to the very end.
You can also hear Cello, the dog at the end of Hoochie Coochie Poochie - his song, you know - and Lisa Knapp. Slash’s girlfriend, played four notes at the beginning of that song. |
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