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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Meat Language

Formed in 1988 by Moo R. (Glenn) Squiddles (nee Lupus Hercules) and Zot Q. (Yours truly) Bathwadda the band recorded more that 20 albums (without rehearsals, practice, or musical ability, or without any real thought to writing anything really) and more songs than a GBV show, but with less coherence to reality.

Other members included Yamda (Claudia) Clamannoyance, Yamir (Dave) The Giant Cigar, Mitch (?), The Schmutz (Zo), and the prominently howling “Thing that must howl prominently!” (Roka)

By the 7th or 9th album (But defiantly not the 8th) the band changed the spelling of it’s name to Meat Langwij, though most people, not even Moo were aware of that, I just came across a tape with that written in colored pencil so I’m assuming that’s what happened.

The band; spawned from the infamous Corn Hole (Later “Cock Nazi and the Abundant Fantail Shrimp Abortions” which I was part of on stage for 45 minutes (Not as Cock, mind you, Cock left and the band changed it’s name from Plug Bunnies Inc., then to Lump, or something like that, last time I talked to “Cock” he was teaching H.S and Rikers Island and going on to better things in the NYC School District). From Meat Language came Froot (Glenn, Dave, Alex, Me) Lobster (Maps) and the even shorter lived Brain Damage Weiosbeski, a band so short lived they actually lived shortly in between recording the 10th, 11th and 12th Meat Language Albums which were all on the same tape. There was also an album with Glenn, Me and Louie (Cock) which had no name but included “The People of the Earth” (They’re all gone now)

Album names I can remember
1)
2) Nose Potatoe (sic)
3) Attack of the Killer Rabbi’s named after Phone Equipment
4) Take it to Brian’s Lung (Brian from Corn Hole actually)
5) Toilet Tissue Rampage Victims
6) Yonta (imaginary Swedish word for Knapsack Revelation)
7– 25 ? Glenn?

Song names
I’ll come back to this

Also my Dad; Sgt. Jimmy 3000 Sr. (No longer on this particular Earth) appears by accident on “Cello’s for Jello’s
“I can’t hear you! You can’t hear me! Your mother made a whole shitload of chicken!”
“I told you, I already eaten!”

Trivia:
What was the instrument that wisped wisp-fuly in the second installment of “Master Moose Theater”?

The Tour-De-Force “Let’s Eat” was inspired by me being a bastard and not feeding Glenn so his blood sugar would drop and he would get violent, which he took out on my Guitar.

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6 Comments:

  • At 12:10 PM, Blogger Moo R. Squiddles said…

    Kahn Durch was the eighth one. I know, because I have that one (I just listened to it last week - pure brilliance). There was another one with you me and Todd in my garage apartment. That was where Penis Vodka came about.

    Answer to the question of what instrument that was?

    I know it.

    A violin pluck.

    I can still see your face when you turned on the volume of the radio...
    Or was that the first installment?

     
  • At 12:22 PM, Blogger Moo R. Squiddles said…

    I thought the first on was called Brians's Lung

     
  • At 3:42 PM, Blogger Moo R. Squiddles said…

    The there was one called 'Ken - Circa 1969". That may have been the tenth or eleventh one

     
  • At 10:18 AM, Blogger jimmy3000 said…

    The end song on III was "Bring it to Brian's Lung" which we announced album IV "Take it to Brian's Lung"

    The first album may have actually been called "No one knows how good this really is."

    The instrument was "The Meat-O-Phone", actually my sisters electric acordian through a BOSS Super Distortion + Feedbacker pedal (later changed to Feedbacker+Distortion to sound cooler, thanks ROLAND) through a Music Man HD-212

    The song was Paganini's violin concerto in (pitch weasel who lives in my brain says:) G Maj

    "Happy bat basket weaving"

    then "Poop Mice" came on

     
  • At 12:52 PM, Blogger eHip said…

    I knew the answer! Yes, a meat-o-phone. Been trying to find me one on EBay. There should be a wikipedia entry for Meat Langwij.

    I remember Angus McDeath of the Child Crushers on the first album (?)

    Also, do not forget the ML spin-off group that scared many a Buffalonian - Beef Language (P. Colucci, D. Stern, F. Rueck, A. Pettit). They only made 1 album together - must have been that 'shooting star' syndrome.

     
  • At 9:01 AM, Blogger jimmy3000 said…

    The Child Crushers first album was
    "Slash the Catholics"
    and the song was
    "Beat the shit out of everyone you know"

     

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