BORIS ‘FLOORSHAKER’ SINGLE WITH DETACHED HUMAN EAR

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BORIS ‘FLOORSHAKER’ SINGLE WITH DETACHED HUMAN EAR. Condition is Used.

For sale: A signed and framed copy of ‘Floorshaker’ 7” record and the detached human ear that inspired the song with signatures from Atsuo, Wata, and Takeshi.

Includes

- framed and signed 7” record.

- medicinal cup containing lobe portion of human ear

- display case

- display stand

- plaque telling the story

Press:

Boris have made a song about a man's ear - which was bitten off at their gig

Japan's premiere noise-making trio Boris have made a song about a man's ear - which was apparently bitten off at one of their gigs.

When Denton, Texas resident Josh Baish went to a Boris gig he was assaulted by four men, who broke one of his ribs and bit a chunk out of one of his ears. But while loading out after the gig, Boris found the missing piece of the man's ear and returned it to him. And then wrote a song about it.”

The song in question is on the b-side track of Boris's recent "Statement/Floorshaker" 7", which features the telling line: "I found a ripped ear on the floor/ This must be yours".

Unfortunately for Baish it wasn't possible to re-attach the ear, but he keeps its remnants on show behind the bar at his venue Rubber Gloves, in Denton, TX

- the wire, 4/4/08

Boris Write Song About Finding Piece of Fan's Ear

Songwriting inspiration has to come from somewhere, so why not from a fan's chunk of severed ear? It's not the sort of ear damage you'd expect Boris to be involved with as Japan's foremost purveyors of metallic noise, but in this case, the dissonantly musical trio's ear play was on the recovery end.

Josh Baish, a dweller of Denton, Texas embarked on a trek across the state to Marfa to see Boris perform on October 18, 2007. Far exceeding even the wildest expectations of mosh-pit violence, four men assaulted Baish during the show, breaking one of his ribs and chomping off a piece of his ear.

Well, that's pretty fucking nasty, but the Boris crew know how to turn one form of auditory assault into another. While the band were loading out their gear after the show, they found the missing hunk of ear and returned it to Baish, hoping it could be reattached. It couldn't, so Boris did the next best thing - they wrote a song about it.

Early this year, Baish received a copy of Boris' "Statement/Floorshaker" seven-inch in the mail and recognised his story in the lyrics of B-side "Floorshaker," which includes the lines "I found a ripped ear on the floor/This must be yours."

Since doctors couldn't reattach the ear chunk, Baish gave his casualty of rock a notable home - in a jar behind the bar in his venue in Denton, Rubber Gloves.

Baish summed up the experience in an email to Pitchfork: "So basically, I lost my ear and broke a rib at a concert from my favorite band, and they wrote a song about it. I'd say it was worth it."

- exclaim, 4/2/08