Jim Jones, 1950-2008

I found out yesterday that longtime Pere Ubu and Home And Garden guitarist Jim Jones died at home on Monday, February 18, 2008.

I never knew him, but I saw him play live, not just with Pere Ubu but also with Home And Garden, and as a guest guitarist with the Peter Blegvad Trio when they played a club in Lakewood, OH several years ago.

I emailed him afterwards and he responded right away and talked as if we had known
each other for years. He was a sweetheart of a guy, and I'll miss him.

Here's the obituary from today's Cleveland Plain Dealer:
http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2008/02/longtime_cleveland_musician_ji.html

-- Ray

Cut And Paste Records Podcast #8 is now online

The Cut And Paste Records Podcast #8 is now online at:
http://cap_records.podomatic.com or www.myspace.com/cutandpasterecordspodcast.

I play tracks by The Kitchen Cycnics, ice cream blisters, Rob Christensen, LMNOP, Lawrence Salvatore, The Bill Jones Show, MJB, Daniel Prendiville, CD Truth, The House Of Sectionals,
Duff Davis & The Book Club, Bryan Baker, Rich Arithmetic, Squires Of The Subterrain, and The Breetles.

NOTE: The track by LMNOP has the "f" word in it...in case you're listening at work. ;)

BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA and HOPES AND FEARS reissues now available

I know. Just what you've been waiting for. :)

Remastered/reissued versions of BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA and HOPES AND FEARS are now available, with color covers, lyric sheets included, and packaged in clear plastic sleeves.

BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA actually had to be remixed and then remastered (three times) before I finally got it sounding...ok. Even so, My cover of Jackie DeShannon's When You Walk In The Room still sounds like crap, although I managed to somehow make it sound less like crap than it did. Now it just sounds like it was mixed through a very tiny early 60s transistor radio. :) For some reason my engineering skills during this period were less than perfect, let's just say...

It was originally released as a 9-song cassette in 1993, and then issued as a 15 song cdr several years later. BUBBUD still features all 15 songs, but has been totally remixed--almost radically so on a couple of songs.

Track listing:

1. Rise And Shine (Carmen)

2. Out Of Your Hair (Carmen)

3. Jealousy (Carmen)

4. When You Walk In The Room (Jackie DeShannon)

5. Too Much Coffee (Carmen)

6. Rain On The Road (Carmen)

7. Between You And Me (Carmen)

8. More Than Enough (Carmen)

9. I Knew You So Well (Carmen-Clinger)

10. Beach Blanket Bookmobile (Carmen)

11. Vanquished (Carmen-James St. Vrrain)

12. Leaf Of Absence (Carmen)

13. Black Cloud (Carmen)

14. Going Home (Carmen)

15. Rain Reprise (Carmen)

HOPES AND FEARS was written and recorded with my friend Ken Clinger. It didn't present any problems soundwise since it was recorded and produced by Clinger at his Bovine Studios set-up. The only difference is that our Beatles cover Here There And Everywhere was taken off when it was first issued on cdr (I thought my vocals were too schmaltzy, and I was right--they are). I have added it back to the track listing, although it is now track number five instead of eleven (figuring let's just get it over with sooner rather than later :) ). The only other difference is that the sound bites of my late grandmother have been removed from the track Open Your Eyes (I had edited them in very sloppily on the original master. I cannot find the original source tape to re-edit them back in).

Track listing:

1. When Will I Ever Learn (Carmen-Clinger)

2. Better Off Alone (Carmen-Clinger)

3. Fly (Nick Drake)

4. I Knew You So Well (Carmen-Clinger)

5. Here There And Everywhere (Lennon-McCartney)

6. She Says (Carmen-Clinger)

7. Open Your Eyes (Carmen-Clinger)

8. I Know You Know (Carmen-Clinger)

9. Junk (McCartney)

10. I Enjoy Being A Boy (In Love With You) (Levine-Bellack)

11. Train Loop (Clinger)

12. One More Day (Carmen-Clinger)

Both releases are now available for $5.00 each postage paid. Send cash, check or money order to the usual place: Cut And Paste Records, POB 152, Green, OH 44232. Please make checks payable to Ray Carmen, NOT Cut And Paste Records.

Up next will be the 2-disc reissue of HANGER 18. Disc one will be the original album, and disc two will be instrumental remixes without the samples and found sounds. H18 should be ready within the next month or so, I hope.