Jazz Butcher–Big Questions (Gift of Music Vol 2) LP with Ltd Ed 7” EP

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Jazz Butcher–Big Questions (Gift of Music Vol 2) LP with Ltd Ed 7” EP

Label: Glass Records– GLALP 023

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Vinyl, 7", Limited Edition

Country: UK

Released: 1987

Genre: Rock

Style: Alternative Rock

Tracklist

A1       The Human Jungle              

A2       Hard              

A3       Death Dentist                        

A4       South America

    Bass – Pat Fish

A5       Groovin' In The Buslane                 

A6       Mersey

    Written-By – David Surkamp

B1       Peter Lorre               

B2       Vienna Song             

B3       Olaf Palme                

B4       Rebecca Wants Her Bike Back                   

B5       City Of Night                        

B6       The Hairbrush And The Tank

    Written-By – David J, Pat Fish

            Limited 7"

A1       Speedy Gonzalez

    Written-By – Buddy Kaye, D. Hill*, E. Lee*

A2       Knocking On Heavens Door

    Written-By – Bob Dylan

B1       May I

    Written-By – Lou Reed

B2       Over You

    Written-By – Kevin Ayers

Credits

    Bass – Felix (13)

    Drums – Owen Jones

    Guitar, Vocals – Max Eider

    Producer – Jazz Butcher, The (tracks: A6 to B6), John A. Rivers* (tracks: 1, 3, 4), Tony Harris (tracks: 2, 5)

    Vocals, Guitar – Jazz Butcher, The

    Written-By – Jazz Butcher, The (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B6)

Notes

Initial 1st copies of the album included a limited edition 4 track 7" of rare, live and exclusive recordings (HMMM002).

Surface condition: VG+

Sleeve condition: VG+

Biography

by Jason Ankeny

The Jazz Butcher was the vehicle of prolific singer/songwriter Pat Fish, an archetypal British eccentric whose sharp observational wit and melodic gifts navigated the group through over a decade of constant lineup shifts, stylistic mutations and even a series of name changes which found the band performing variously -- and apparently randomly -- under such titles as the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and the Jazz Butcher & His Sikkorskis from Hell. Fish was born Patrick Huntrods in London in 1957, and raised primarily in Northampton. He first began performing while studying philosophy at Oxford in the late '70s, fronting the short-lived Nightshift; a subsequent band dubbed the Institution later joined forces with their rivals, the Sonic Tonix, establishing the nucleus of players who later formed the core of the Jazz Butcher sphere.

Fish first concocted his Butcher persona in 1982, quickly enlisting his Oxford mates to join him in a band of the same name; even from the outset, the group's roster changed seemingly on a daily basis, although Fish found an early mainstay in guitarist Max Eider. The Jazz Butcher's eclectic 1982 debut In Bath in Bacon -- including early skewed pop gems such as "Love Zombie" and "Sex Engine Thing" -- was essentially a Fish solo record, but by 1984's folky A Scandal in Bohemia, the roster had stabilized to include ex-Bauhaus bassist David J. Following The Gift of Music, a 1984 compilation of single sides, the Jazz Butcher resurfaced the following year with Sex and Travel, a marvelously odd set ranging in sound from punk ("Red Pets") to cabaret ("Holiday").

After David J left the band to join Love and Rockets, the remaining quartet -- Fish, Eider, bassist Felix Ray, and drummer O.P. Jones -- rechristened themselves the Jazz Butcher & His Sikkorskis from Hell and recorded the 1985 live set Hamburg, followed the next year by an EP, Hard. Leaving the rhythm section behind, Fish and Eider then recorded 1986's Conspiracy EP, credited to the "Jazz Butcher vs. Max Eider" and foreshadowing the subsequent shift to the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy aegis for Distressed Gentlefolk. Eider soon exited to mount a solo career, leaving Fish to team with guitarist Kizzy O'Callaghan for 1988's Fishcoteque, their first release for the Creation label.

By the time of 1989's Big Planet Scarey Planet, the lineup also included the superb bassist Laurence O'Keefe, saxophonist Alex Green, and drummer Paul Mulreany; 1990's Cult of the Basement was recorded with the same roster, but the usual disruptions soon left Fish essentially to his own devices for 1991's Condition Blue and 1993's Waiting for the Love Bus. Upon reuniting with David J, who produced 1995's low-key Illuminate, Fish decided to lay the Jazz Butcher name to rest, and performed a farewell performance in London at the end of the year. He subsequently signed on to play drums with the Stranger Tractors, but in 1999 reunited with Eider for a Jazz Butcher Conspiracy tour of the U.S. The live Glorious & Idiotic appeared the following year, and Rotten Soul was issued in fall 2000.

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