US PRESSING:

100 COPIES ON YELLOW VINYL

US PRESSING:

200 COPIES ON RED VINYL

"EXPLANATION OF HOW WE GOT 5643 SONX ON A 7" RECORD.

BY SETH PUTNAM

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WELL, WE WENT TO A 16 TRACK STUDIO.

WE MIXED ALL THE DRUMS, GUITAR, AND VOX

ONTO ONE TRACK, RECORDED A WHOLE SIDE

THEN WE WENT TO THE 2ND TRACK

AND DID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR 16 TIMES.

SO THERE IS ACTUALLY 16 SONX PLAYING AT ONCE!!! UNDERSTAND??? ALSO, NO EFFECTS WERE

ON ANY INSTRUMENTS OR ON THE VOCALS !!!!"

 

STRIDECORE RECORDS #1

TOTAL NOIZE RECORDS 77/07

© WICKED SICK MUZAK, 1989

 

PLAY WITH 33 1/3 RPM

 

STRIDECORE RECORDS #1

TNT 77/007

© WICKED SICK MUZAK, 1989

 

SIDE 1 RECORDED ON OCTOBER 1st, 1989

SIDE 2 RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 23th AND 24th, 1989

RECORDED AT BF/VF STUDIOS, BOSTON, MA.

PRODUCED BY TOM WALTZ AND SETH PUTNAM.

A.C. LOGO BY CHRIS BRODER

COVER MAJA MAJEWSKI.

 

5643 SONG EP - EUROPEAN PRINT

1000 COPIES MADE IN TEN COLORS

"AFTER THAT IS OUR 5,643 SONG E.P.,

WHICH HAS 16 DIFFERENT SONGS PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME AND IS JUST A TOTAL WALL OF NOISE.

THE IDEA FOR THIS E.P. WAN CONCEIVED BY ME

AND MARC LINDAHL ONE NIGHT WHILE HANGING OUT

AT HIS APARTMENT. BEFORE WE GOT TO RECORD IT,

MARC MOVED TO NEW YORK, SO IT WAS PRODUCED BY ME

AND TOM WALTZ AT BF/VF STUDIOS.

THIS RECORD TOOK FOREVER TO RECORD 20 HOURS.

IT HAS OVER 3 HOURS WORTH OF MUSIC ON IT

ALL COMPRESSED INTO 12 MINUTES...

WE RECORDED SIDE 2 FIRST, ON SEPTEMBER 23+24, 1989,

AND WE RECORDED SIDE 1 ON OCTOBER, 1989.

BEFORE WE STARTED RECORDING ON OCTOBER 1,

I GOT THE IDEA FOR THE PIANO INTRO

WHILE I WAS TAKING A SHIT.

WE THOUGHT THAT THAT WOULD BE A BETTER INTRO

FOR THE RECORD, SO WE MADE IT SIDE ONE.

I ORIGINALLY PUT IT OUT ON MY OWN LABEL

(307 PRESSED, 50 OF THEM WITH A FULL COLOR COVER).

THEN MATTHIAS WEIGAND RE-RELEASED IT ON HIS TNT&R LABEL (1100 PRESSED ON 6 DIFFERENT COLORED VINYLS).

THE REASON I ONLY PRESSED 307 COPIES ON MY LABEL

WAS BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE WOULD LIKE IT,

AND I DIDN'T WANT TO GET STUCK WITH LOTS OF RECORDS THAT I COULDN'T SELL.

ALSO, I ONLY WANTED PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY HEARD

A.C. TO GET IT, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT SOMEONE

WHO HAD NEVER HEARD US BEFORE TO HEAR IT

AND THINK ALL OUR STUFF SOUNDED LIKE THAT.

WE ALSO RUSHED IT OUT SO NOBODY WOULD STEAL OUR IDEA OF HAVING MULTIPLE TRACKS PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME..."

 

SETH PUTNAM

"FAST BOSTON HC" CD [1991]

"GREATEST HITS VOLUME ONE" CD [1991]

 

 

"THIS RECORD IS BASICALLY 16 A.C. SONGS

PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME.

THE IDEA FOR THIS CAME FROM ME AND MARC LINDAHL

ONE NIGHT WHILE HANGING OUT AT HIS PLACE.

BEFORE WE WERE ABLE TO RECORD IT, MARC MOVED TO

NEW YORK... SO TOM WALTZ, HAD TAKEN OVER THE STUDIO.

SO BASICALLY, WE WENT TO A 16 STUDIO TRACK

AND HAD THE GUITAR, DRUMS, AND VOCALS

RECORDED LIVE ONTO ONE TRACK

UNTIL WE DID A WHOLE 7" WORTH OF MATERIAL.

THEN WE DID THE SAME WITH THE 2ND TRACK, 3RD, 4TH, ETC. UNTIL WE HAD 16 DONE.

THERE IS ACTUALLY OVER 3 HOURS WORTH OF MUSIC

ON THIS 7". IT TOOK FOREVER TO RECORD (20 HOURS)...

WE ACTUALLY RECORDED WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE SIDE 2

FIRST ON SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24, 1989...

SINCE RECORDING THIS WAS SO LONG AND TEDIOUS,

WE WOULD FUCK AROUND NOW AND THEN AND DO

A FEW COVER SONGS (WHICH NO ONE CAN NOTICE ANYWAYS). WE DID SONGS BY NUNSLAUGHTER, FEAR OF GOD,

CHEECH AND CHONG, AND OTHERS I CAN'T REMEMBER.

I THOUGHT OF THE PIANO INTRO WHILE I WAS TAKING A SHIT RIGHT BEFORE WE RECORDED.

I ORIGINALLY PUT THIS OUT ON MY OWN LABEL.

307 WERE PRESSED.

A LITTLE OVER 100 WERE ON YELLOW VINYL,

AND A LITTLE OVER 200 WERE ON RED VINYL.

ALSO, 50 OF THE COPIES HAD A FULL COLOR COVER.

I DID SUCH A SMALL PRESSING BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK

I COULD SELL TOO MANY COPIES OF A RECORD

THAT SOUNDED LIKE COMPLETE GARBAGE, PLUS,

I ONLY WANTED PEOPLE THAT HEARD A.C. BEFORE TO HEAR IT

BACAUSE I DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO THINK ALL OF

OUR RECORDS WERE SONGS PLAYING OVER EACH OTHER.

SHORTLY AFTER IT CAME OUT.

IT WAS LICENSED TO TOTAL NOISE TAPES AND RECORDS.

HE PRESSED 1100 COPIES ON 6 DIFFERENT COLOR VINYLS.

I THOUGHT HE WAS OUT OF HIS MIND FOR PRESSING

THAT MANY, BUT THEY ALL SOLD.

THE ONLY THING THAT SUCKED WAS THAT HE MADE

HIS OWN COVER FOR THE RECORD WITHOUT TELLING ME.

IT LOOKS LIKE A 5 YEAR OLD DREW A BAD PORNO PICTURE.

I WAS TOTALLY EMBARRASSED WHEN I SAW IT."

 

SETH PUTNAM

"THE EARLY YEARS 1988-1991" 2 x CD [2000]

Line-Up:

Seth Putnam - Vocals, Piano

Mike Mahan - Guitar

Tim Morse - Drums

OUT TAKES OF 5643 SONG E.P.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-J9ymooacM