Sun City Girls Eye Hash Attache 17 cassettes + sausage

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Sun City Girls  
Eye Hash Attache
17 cassettes dubbed circa 1993

Okay so here is something strange and most likely unique in its own weird way.  About fifteen years ago, around the time that the Sun City Girls were moving to Seattle, I became acquainted with some contemporaneous and future SCG collaborators.  As part of an exchange of recorded goods, I obtained these copies of the so-called Cloaven cassettes.  As you can see from the attached pics, some of the tapes are adorned with artwork (xeroxed) of unknown origin.  At least one source I have spoken with maintains that some copies of the Cloaven tapes were made into esoteric art objects while other copies (of the same releases) were whipped out with, shall we say, a bit less attention to detail.

The following SEVENTEEN tapes are included in this somewhat incomplete set (first date is date of recording; the second date is the release of the original Cloaven cassettes from which, I assume, these tapes were dubbed):

God is My Solar System 1982 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Superpower 1982-83 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Hatchet Rain 1983 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Bleach Has Feelings, Too! 1983-85 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Def in Italy 1984 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog 1985-86 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Exotica on Five Dollars a Day 1986 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Fruit of The Womb 1986 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Polite Deception 1986 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Famous Asthma 1986-87 CS (Cloaven) 1987
The Palm Leaves of Victory 1986-87 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Cloaven Theatre #1 1987 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Tibetan Jazz 666 1987 CS (Cloaven) 1987
The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin 1987-88 CS (Cloaven) 1989
That Old Western Sieve 1988 CS (Cloaven) 1989
Extra-Sensory Defection CS (Cloaven) 1989
The Great North American Tricksters CS (Cloaven) 1990

The following six tapes are NOT (I repeat: NOT) included in this set:

To Cover Up Your Right To Live 1983-85 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Folk Songs of The Rich and Evil 1985 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Cloaven Theatre #2 1987 CS (Cloaven) 1987
Cloaven Theatre #3 1988 CS (Cloaven) 1989
Audio Letter to Mitch Meyers 1988 CS (Cloaven) 1989
Graverobbing in the Future 1988 CS (Cloaven) 1989

As you might imagine, there is a story about the missing tapes, too.  The story is that yet another infamous “collaborator” became intrigued by the tapes and “borrowed” them for a cross country journey during which the location and fate of the tapes became something of a sore point between yours truly and said member of said “collaborator.”  That wasn’t the final journey of the tapes, either.  To make a long story short, these 17 tapes are all I have left from the original set and the missing 6 are probably on a UFO somewhere being enjoyed by aliens.

One last comment about the tapes: although the recording quality is not always everything it could be, the Cloaven tapes are legendary for a reason.  While some are nearly unlistenable FUs to the civilized world, others make you wonder why they weren’t released as vinyl albums, as is.  Of course, parts of the tapes eventually made it onto albums and compilation CDs and the Eclipse Label appeared to make some headway towards putting all of the tapes on vinyl.  But even the Eclipse Label reissues omit some material from the tapes (as well as adding material that does not appear on the tapes).

Oh yes, I almost forgot: the suitcase!  The tapes were delivered to me in this box by a tall man wearing reflective sunglasses and a ridiculous orange-colored tan like you’d get in one of those mall salons.  He rang my doorbell about 8:00 am (bastard woke me up), handed me the suitcase and said “These are for you.”  That was it.  Later that morning I went out in the backyard and there were three holes burned in the lawn, perfectly round, about a foot in diameter and spaced equidistant from each other, about eight feet apart.  Weird.  The suitcase is some sort of pressed cardboard with fake alligator skin trim and a metal buckle.  Inside the suitcase are the tapes (of course) as well as two “beef summer sausage with cheese” links, sealed in plastic wrap, and a custom-modified Sun City Girls PEZ dispenser.  When I set the dispenser down to take the picture, some ants started swarming over it.  Serious Phase IV activity!   There is some candy in the dispenser and I tried one.  Stale but still edible.  The sausage looks tasty and the seal is unbroken so it’s probably been better preserved than the PEZ candy.

I doubt the tapes or the suitcase were “authorized” in the usual manner with a bunch of executives and representatives sitting around a table.  The freaking thing strikes me as more of an homage to the Sun City Girls than an official release.  I probably should have kept a better eye on the tapes while I owned them, but what’s done is done.  It’s time for someone else to control their destiny and ponder the mystery of the Eye Hash Attache.

Shipping on this is $10 in the US, $25 elsewhere.

Major update!  I just received news that 5 of the 6 missing tapes have been found (in Minneapolis!) and will of course be included with the rest.  The only tape that is still AWOL is the Audio Letter to Mitch Meyers.