Nothing Painted Blue/Lois Split 7" (1993) [Simple Machines, SMWH 07, 7"]
Tracklist:
A - Nothing Painted Blue - "Another Child Bride"
B - Lois - "Indie"
"Indie" is catchy, but of course the Nothing Painted Blue track is our area of focus here. The band offers their recollections on the recording in the liner notes for 1997 Nothing Painted Blue compilation Emotional Discipline:
JOEY: Always a pleasure to work with
people you admire, like Greg Free-
man (of Pell Mell), and of course
Barbara Manning....KYLE: ...Pretty much our only famous
guest appearance...FRANKLIN: ...Who we were staying with
on that trip to San Francisco.JOEY: Right after the "White Bread,
Red Meat" tour. I still have pic-
tures of Franklin with the eye mas-
sage glasses on his head.
And from the 7" insert:
Recorded and engineered
by Greg Freeman at Lowdown
Studios on Dec. 27, 1992. Franklin
guitars, Joey - bass, Kyle - drums.Appearing as "the Mamas + the Papas"
Joey + Barbara Manning. In honor of the
Feast of Expectant Mothers, a Roman ([illegible]
pagan) holiday celebrated on July 3, now
supplanted in the Catholic calendar by
the Feast of St. Thomas. Also note: July
3 is the birthday of both Franz
Kafka and discredited sem-
anticist Alfred Korzybski.
The handwriting on this one is a little fuzzed out on the sleeve printing so I have one question mark here for something about the Roman Pagans. Full size scans are available as per usual at the bottom of the page here for you to make your own guesses.
Korzybski is the "the map is not the territory" guy. He had some ideas that I guess got folded into Scientology; bummer. I think "the map is not the territory" is back in fashion but I don't know how it got there. Also, the fact that you can ongoingly refer to a specific pseudoscientific movement with the phrase "general semantics" seems inconvenient. Intuitively you would probably think "general semantics" is a broad overview of semantics. But that's "semantics". Adding "general" is actually marking it as more specific. I'm sure a semanticist would have a lot to say about this paragraph.
The "White Bread, Red Meat" tour was in the latter half of 1992. There was a party before the boys left, in July, and Joey describes this December recording as not long after they got back.
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