This record is a lot more about friendship and longevity than about prose and meter. Its the accumulation of 6 years work, some recorded on the first take, others on many takes.
The work is dense and each track stretched to maximum capacity. If your a fan of more complicated rhythms and lots of percussive actions, you’ll enjoy. If not, you like track 9, “Shirt”...and track 4, “Away”. See Ya...
BOOT
Title: Steel Toed Clown Boot
Publisher: Trout Music 2005
Hob-Nob Records
Liner Notes
Release Date: 11/15/2005
The following declarations were devised to help the end-user digest and process the audio tracks contained within this compact disk.
The contents of this compact disk were painstakingly complied and composed over the past six (6) years[*]. The cost to produce this material far exceeds its price to you, the end user. [†]
Once you’ve completed listening to track four (4), “Burgling Grimace—Pig F@cker[‡], you will have reached the breakeven point of your purchase. If you choose to continue listening to the compact disk, you are thus receiving immediate return on investment (ROI).[§]
For optimal listening pleasure, high-quality stereo headphones should be used to receive the compact disk’s audible correspondence.[**]
If you are not a skilled musician by trade or profession, please do not attempt to play along with this compact disk. [††]
Pete is a boy, Shirt is a piece of clothing, Bolt is a fastener, when used as a noun[‡‡]
Exit is a way to get off the highway.
Tracks 2,4,6,9 and 13 can be combined to make one single continuous six-minute thirty-two second song. The track was recorded consecutively and is not a mere loop. The tracks were divided and sequenced within this body of work.[§§]
The character “Burgling Grimace” is purely fictitious. Any coincidence is accidental.
BOOT
Is
Scott Friberg - Guitar, Banjo, Keyboards, Vocals
Dawson Roark - Drums and Percussion
Jon Kemmpainen - Violin on Forest of Dreams, Away, and Burgling Grimace. Vocals on Forest
Doug Largent - Bass on Forest of Dreams, Four Walls, Bolt, Away, Burgling Grimace 1
Peter Kimosh - Bass on Dagda, Pete, Burgling Grimace 2,3,4,5, Exit, Before it Learned me, Soak up the Weather
Paul Carlson - Violin on Dagda
Brett Wiggins - Claps on Burgling Grimace
Quincy Ayscue - English Literature
Will Caviness - Trumpet and horn arrangement
Vamsi Tadepalli - Alto Sax
[*] Two thousand one hundred and ninety days.
[†] The terms end “user,” “purchaser,” “you,” and “listener” will be used simultaneously throughout.
[‡] Not recommended for children.
[§] You should probably have paid more for this compact disk. You’re feeling guilty about the pleasure you’ve experienced so far; Go and do something kind and hope that a divine being is tracking your progress…then listen to remaining tracks.
[**] Not those little Radio Shack ®™ ear-bud style headphones. Headphones should visually look like they were produced in the 1970’s, should be brown or black in color, have domes at least 3” in diameter, and a coiled audio cord with ¼” plug. Adapting 2.5mm plug to ¼” is acceptable, but not recommended.
[††] It will only frustrate and belittle you.
[‡‡] When used as a verb is means “to leave, split, vamanos”
[§§] Tracks 2,4,6,9 and 13 should be considered soda crackers intended to cleanse the listeners palate in-between compositions.
