2nd pressing

Thank you, thank you! Hopefully there will be an opportunity to pick up more than one copy. It is gift giving season......

I'm all in. No arm twisting needed even though I gave away my turntable about 7 years ago.

I highly recommend getting this. I've only listened to the single 4 or 5 times, but it's worth it for "grandpaboy's last stand" alone. I don't know what it is about these basement recordings of his, with all the weird things going on, but they're quite enjoyable. This one has some good songs on it (not as good as 49:00, but still). It's scary listening to stuff like this, knowing paul must have countless tapes full of songs in partial states. It's like the guy is always working.

The new grandpaboy thing is also interesting as it's kind of chronicling the "life" of grandpaboy, and elrod puce is highly involved it seems... Not sure if that's just another pseudonym for paul, or grandpaboy, or Mr. F, but it seems to be something there. It's kind of strange listening to it, as you almost think the poor guy might be having an identity crisis or something with the various names being used. Especially when he's obviously talking about himself, but I dunno for sure. It's great music either way, you should give it a chance.

Phil

This past October has been the roughest of my life, and now I find I miss this? Please hurry with the second pressing - go like the 'mats, go man go!

I dunno...on the download card, someone nicely translated the ASL where it says, "If you can't take a joke...." and then the ASL hand signs for:

FUCK YA
LOVE PW

But even if it is just him horsing around on unfinished song ideas, I still find the snippets compelling. I'm still finding new things on it after only hearing it three times. I think it needs repeated listenings to get the entire humor ("we were cookin'!" and "sounds like the fuckin' Bee Gees!" and "how many replacements does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" ) and to really take in the other songs, minus the "studio" chatter.

And if he meant all of this seriously, ie, not intentionally bad, it's still far more unique as this artistic concept. IMO, it's much better than whatever else is being vomited from mainstream radio, let's put it that way!

I specifically meant the dance version of Love You in Reverse was intentionally bad. But yeah, I don’t think any of the music is meant to be taken seriously. If there's one thing we know it's that he didn't do this in a rush. It would take a lot of time andplanning to multitrack all the dialogue. So I doubt he got all that right and then didn't get the drums tracked in time on Mystery Train (for instance) because he was rushing through it. I'd love to hear Paul do a serious cover of Mystery Train, but this one is obviously meant to be part of the chaos of a Grandpaboy session, so it's intentionally bad. I just these think the same is true for everything on the track. At least I hope it's a joke.

I'm with you---the more I listen to it, the funnier it gets...and this entire concept of a Grandpaboy "recording session" is maybe a stroke of creative genuis?

The producer Ron Regal---who has a 4 o'clock flight

The fight in the band:

"Shut the fuck up!"
"You wanna taste my blade?"
"Pine! Pine! Hold him!"

Comments about Elrod wearing women's clothes...

oh yeah, this isn't to be taken seriously, it's fun...and FUNNY.



True, I've listened to it in the car on the way to and from work and I keep finding new things that strike me as being funny! What better way to start and end your day?

Totally agree that Paul's sense of humor has always been one of his strong suits. Unfortunately for me, I don't think these tracks are funny at all. It's more of an irritating listening experience that I won't be repeating. I found the (authentic) studio banter between Paul, Tommy and Tom Waits on Threeoclockkreepto be about 100 times funnier than this. It might be just more evidence that you can't recreate a full band experience with a one man band.

I must say I'm more impressed with the technical aspects of putting together a one man sketch like "Grandpaboy's Last Stand" than the actual results. Paul is no Bill Hicks or Richard Pryor that's for sure, heck, he's not even Jay Leno and that's saying something. So there's nods to pseudonyms from the past, song snippets, and some mild jabs at the music biz, but overall this thing just isn't all that engaging for me. Some of the music is decent enough, and there's a few smiles to be had, but overall it feels like epic length filler. It sounds like he had fun doing it, more fun than I had listening. It's too bad, something like this could work, it just requires a bit more forethought.

Obviously this is just something tossed off and as it's just a bonus track it's nothing to get worked up over. Nevertheless one can only hope that the next bit of "filler' is a bit more substantial.