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JoHn KiNg - My New LoOk |
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I first heard John King's music in 1985 in the back of my friend Chet Krayewski's '71 Nova. They sat near each other in homeroom at St. Agnes High School in Uniondale, NY. It was the last day of finals, a halfday, and we were on our way to buy booze with altered drivers licenses. It was Kilgore Trout's (not to be confused with any number of Vonnegut-inspired bands since then) first demo tape, John on voice, his sister Colleen on guitar, and a guy named Vinnie on the Casiotone belting out a tiny powerpop masterpiece which drew on the Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, the Cure, and Devo for its inspiration. John and I met soon afterwards at a beach party and solidified our friendship by drunkenly misspelling KILGORE TRUOUT in 10-foot-high letters in the sand. After we went our separate ways, I received tapes (and later vinyl and CDs) every time John released something new, which was often, both with college band HUMIDIFIER and Jersey City-based Merge artists SPENT, but the rarest and most cherished recordings were those which he made in his own time alone with his trusty Tascam 4-track. In one place for the first time, these songs are more personal and experimental, reflecting John's changing sensibilities, assembled chronologically to trace his development as a self-taught musician and songwriter. Most of these songs have never been heard by any but a small circle of friends. It is time to widen that circle: |
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