Hot August Night (1992) [Sonic Enemy]

Hot August Night (1992) [Sonic Enemy, cassette]

From the Sonic Enemy 1993 catalog:

a Neil Diamond tribute in spirit only. sixty minutes worth of Carne A., Massengil, DiskothiQ and Inland Empire all-stars Midland Pipe & Feedbag, all recorded live in Upland last August 7. Prove to your grandchildren that the 90s really WERE that cool.

Photos, taken using my cell phone camera at Mark Givens' place with his blessing, and with whose help I was able to bring home an A-to-D of this tape back in 2018:

Tracklist:

01. Midland Pipe - Midland Pipe Theme
02. DiskothiQ - Phone # Theme
03. DiskothiQ - I'm Straight (Jonathan Richman)
04. DiskothiQ - Enrico Constantino
05. DiskothiQ - Somebody Somewhere's Got Something Against Me
06. Carne A - Hermafro
07. Carne A - Boogie Mach 7
08. Carne A - Bunny (Paula A)
09. Carne A - The Punk Song
10. Massengil - Go Surf Kid
11. Massengil - Swarthy
12. Massengil - Premature Cheese
13. Massengil - Long-Haired Jim
14. Feedbag - It's All Over Now
15. Seizure Dog - Seizure Dog Theme

Transcription of the J-card:

A SIDE

MIDLAND PIPE - Midland Pipe
Theme. (all-star lineup features
the Bunce Bros on guitar & drums,
Jason on bass and voices of Nathan,
Kristi, John & Peter).

DISKOTHI-Q - Phone #
Theme / I'm Straight / Enrico
Constantino / Somebody Somewhere's
Got Something Against Me.

Everything recorded live @
Kristi's house in Upland CA
August 7 1992

B SIDE

CARNE A. - Hermafro / Boogie
Mach 7 / Bunny (Paula A. ) / The
Punk Song.

MASSENGIL - Go Surf Kid /
Swarthy / Premature Cheese / Long-
Haired Jim.

FEEDBAG - It's all Over Now
(all-star line-up features the Bunce
Bros. again on guitar & drums,
Jeremy on bass & Allen singing).

SEIZURE DOG - Seizure Dog Theme

Useful notes:

"Kristi's house" refers to Kristi Engle of Massengil.
This is the only known recording of DiskothiQ's "Phone # Theme"
During the DiskothiQ set, you can hear banter among the other performers on the sidelines saying things like "we love Diskothi-Q! we wish we were in Diskothi-Q!" and laughing together. This is adorable.
This is the highest density of Massengil tracks to be found on any physical release, that I'm aware of. Recordings of "Swarthy" (The Swarthy Song) and "Long-Haired Jim" can be heard on the DiskothiQ/Massengil split 7"; a recording of "Premature Cheese" appears on Shrimper comp High Fly Graveyard; "Go Surf Kid" appears on Car In Car Disco Product compilation Silvergate and Dovetail, which I hope to cover in the future, but you can read all about it on the Wckr Spgt site and hear the song there.
Midland Pipe: of the 7 personnel, confirmed are Craig Bunce of Massengil, John D., Peter H., and Kristi Engle. Nathan is, one assumes, Nathan Wilson from Shoeface. Also, the Midland Pipe recording on this tape is one of the greatest things in history. I want to burn it to a hundred archival-quality CD-Rs and blank tapes. It's largely inaudible yelling, but the bits you can make out are hysterical.
Feedbag lists "the Bunce bros again on guitar & drums, Jeremy on bass, & Allen singing"; even in all the "1992" going on, Allen Callaci of Refrigerator is unmistakable as ever
Seizure Dog is a recording of a dog.
Carne A is historically reported as Jeremy Goff plus a "Chris, Ian, and Bill" but this may not be accurate for the recording itself? They had a tape on Shrimper under Anthems of Carnea, which I've recently gotten ahold of and will be looking into soon.

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