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RICH WEST
Heavenly Breakfast
Rich West, drums, accordion, pieces; Dan Krimm, electric bass; Bruce
Friedman, trumpet; Emily Beezhold, electric piano, korg ms2000; Lynn
Johnston, saxophones, clarinets
1. Bloomsday
2. A Performer's Objective Is to Put Everyone to Sleep
3. You Never Want to Tell People You're a Scent
4. Le Petomane
5. Detritus or Treasures
6. Death Pledge
7. Glenn's Conducting
all compositions by Rich West, © 2006 richwest recordings (bmi)
Design
and Layout by Jeremy Drake
Recorded April 18th and November 27th, 2004
Mixed March 24th, June 2nd, and June 10th, 2005
Mastered August 2nd, 2005
All at Catasonic Studios by Mark Wheaton
Notes:
Heavenly Breakfast is a novel/autobio by Samuel
Delany about
communal living but it reminded me about how happy I was when I
would visit my friends’ cooperatives in Santa Cruz. The food was
vegetarian and excellent. The meal would cost a dollar and I’d help
either in the kitchen or at the dining table. And then the circular
massages. It definitely takes a certain type of person to be involved
in
those things on a day-to-day basis.
I was not one of them.
– Rich West
BLOOMSDAY
I could say I based the form of this tune on the structure of James Joyce’s
book Ulysses – but I didn’t. It’s more about getting progressively
more wasted on an eventful Bloomsday (June 16th) on the UC Santa Cruz campus
in 1984. I came to a classroom full of joyous Ulysses fans drinking Irish whisky,
enjoying another full-length all-night reading of the tome. Brendan, in his
tenth year at the university as an undergrad, was trying to finally
finish a B.A. in philosophy, preferably before a heroin overdose. He was sitting
front and center, absorbed. He got up and read for about a page.
A PERFORMER’S
OBJECTIVE IS TO PUT EVERYONE TO SLEEP
"Come to my gig,” I tell my girlfriend. “You can take a nap.”
YOU
NEVER WANT TO TELL PEOPLE YOU’RE A SCENT
Right?
LE PETOMANE
I’ve thought of dedicating a whole cd to him. I would be the stand-in
for
the famous actor who would play him in the full-length movie. I’d need
a
voice-over, though, as I’m really an unpracticed amateur. Did you
know I was once the model for a Butthole Surfers concert promo poster?
Taken by Steve Callis, the police were looking for the photographer and
producers who put out this smut, this photo of a woman’s groin. Ah, pride.
DETRITUS
OR TREASURES
In chipping away, a fantastic and unfortunate thing happened.
A 20,000-year old fossilized bug came loose as Mr. Big was digging.
It lodged in his corneal area. A trip to the hospital and some tweezers
later, his eye was red for several weeks.
DEATH PLEDGE
See the Latin word “mortgage.”
GLENN’S CONDUCTING
There was a great series at the Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco in
1983 on Fridays. The first one I went to was Glenn Branca
when he had his big guitar group with the sympathetic vibration string
instruments and the drummer played an anvil. You really couldn’t
hear those sounds on recordings, not the way he intended anyway.
I noticed that if you mixed peach brandy and sat in the front row you’d
have involuntary regurgitations. It was LOUD, and freaky because
of all those sympathetic vibration highs. Mind-blowing, psychedelic,
and
he had a program so you could read about it in very academic language.
Right?
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