Sputtering and Distorted; A Reluctant History of the (BUFMS) Butte County Free Music Society by Seymour Glass
$65.00
Recollections, opinions, confessions, revelations, quips, anecdotes, and analyses by, for, and about the art mutants and other creative weirdos working in a rural Northern California college town in the early 1980s. It’s like a Philip K Dick short story meets contagious polythelia. Answering questions no one is asking — it’s the BuFMS way. There’s no salacious gossip here, no long-festering resentments litigated, no tell-all humiliation porn. If that’s your thing, you’ll have to content yourself with living to clutch your pearls another day. Not that it’s wall-to-wall good manners.
Characters and oddballs abound. Some shit-talking, but nothing scandalous like we’re used to nowadays. Still, the content of this Encyclopedia Spastica is slanted toward making music, listening to music, making connections because of music: tape experiments, electronic improv, spoken word, live recordings, punk, psychedelic rock, non-music, and general WTF. Not at the exclusion of film and video, though, and radio shows, radio plays, guerilla theater, stand-up comedy, art installations, zines, collages, poetry and fiction, television shows. Activities, projects, experiences, learning, creating, obsessing, giving up, all that, the whole wad. Every page is adorned with supporting visual flyers and posters, paintings and drawings, newspaper clippings, photos and stills from film, television and video production, prints, personal correspondence, interview transcriptions, and autobiography excerpts. 28th Day, Vomit Launch, Serious Problmz, Bicycle Ballet, Ziplok, Under Glass, KCSC, Beor The Friendly Thing, Jett Hotcomb, The Conduits, Daily Planet, Unlikely Modernists, Man Overboard, The Viper, EL&C, The Protons, Glands of External Secretion, Chaplain Addington, Doug Roberts, and Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble
