The Living Archive
Of Underground Music
Other early experiences of:
Dick Metcalf aka Rotcod Zzaj (artist, serial collaborator, keyboardist, Improvijazzation Nation ezine)
Ken Clinger (artist, collaborator, Bovine label, podcasts)
Eric Muhs ( artist, Invisible label, collaborator, Mata Rata group member)
My first tape trade was with Mark Kissinger, guitarist out of Pennsylvania. It’s been so long that I can’t even remember which tape I sent him, or the one he sent me, but it felt like a whole new world had opened up for me… I was living in Korea at the time, and unable to be around other experimental/psychedelic players, & I could tell that Mark was at the TOP of the heap. My feelings were certainly borne out, as Mark and I went on to make MANY tapes together after that!
http://www.reverbnation.com/label/zzajproductionsI don't actually remember who my first trade was with. I do know that it was connected with OP magazine, around August 1983. The reviews of tapes in OP generally ended with a price for the tape, and whether the tape was available for trade. So after I put my first tape put together (of pieces created by cassette-to-cassette bouncing), I sent it out to several people whose tapes were for trade. One of the very first trades that came back was from Tom Furgas. He mentioned being impressed with how my recordings seemed to be complete, while remaining very sparse. I remember being impressed with how his recordings seemed to inhabit a world between rock and classical (both traditional and experimental). We're still trading today.
http://bovine.productions.angelfire.com/MP3s.html
Eric Muhs
Well, Don, I think one of my earliest trades was with you! I
don't even remember what tape - you have so many releases out,
and it probably came unsolicited to me via a review in OPTION
magazine of one of my own tapes (Alligator Wrestling). It led to
all kinds of things: appearing on your radio show numerous
times, playing live with you & Greg Grey & Joe Menichetti, and
meeting Mike Torrey, and forming a band with him. And of course
you had all kinds of connections with other home tapers. Don
Campau was and is the hub.
