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Spittoon Revival
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Steve and Giles dig into more dusty old recordings and rediscover their version of the American Dream. Has any of that youthfully romantic vision of the good ol' US of A survived into their cynical middle age? We'll have to see.
Including:
- The meaning of the words “Yeehaa Mi Duck!”
- Meet Grin, the myopic Native-American face painter
- Introducing Billy, Biff and Scooter
- How Steve discovered new vistas
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Imagery of Beginnings
00:00:00
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Let me read you something. Well, I was born in the desert, came on up from New Orleans, came up on a tornado, sunlight in the sky. I went around all day with the moon sticking in my eye.
00:00:41
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Yee-haw. Yee-haw. Yee-haw everybody. Howdy partners. Howdy. Diggity-dole.
Podcast Origins and Mixtape Concept
00:00:52
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Yes, thank you for joining us to Johnny Domino's sarsaparilla show. This is our Johnny Domino podcast. My name is Steve. And I am Giles. And we are two brothers who
00:01:08
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recorded music still do occasionally record music occasionally and we are making a podcast about recorded music that we've made and listening to it and memories and stuff if you've never heard it before that's what we do
00:01:33
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We should probably say that the original concept behind the podcast, if you could say it was a concept, was that we were listening to our old recordings with a view to putting together a purely theoretical mixtape of the best of our home recordings.
00:01:50
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Since that time, we have taken the probably fairly obvious step of turning the theoretical mixtape into an actual mixtape, which is now available on streaming sites and various other online platforms under the name of the best of This Are Johnny Domino and Volume 1. Link in the show notes.
00:02:13
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We're going back to a standard episode today, after the last episode, which was about other people's music, which was kind of interesting. Very enjoyable. And we're now going to go back to the ready salted version of the podcast. Original flavor. Original flavor, where we're going to listen to three songs that we did a while ago and reassess our creative endeavors, as it were.
00:02:42
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Does that make sense? Well, it makes sense to me. Okay. Well, that's the main thing. Absolutely. I was going to say, if you sort of not listened to the podcast that much before, I don't know if that could happen, I guess. There might be someone new. Then I'm going to say, don't go back and listen to the first episodes. Not yet. Kind of start somewhere in the middle, I would say, because of the first ones we really didn't know all the hell we were doing.
00:03:11
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But I think we've got a bit better as we've gone along, believe it or not. Yes, this is the improved version. This is the improved original flavour. So stick on the ones after about the first eight, perhaps. Until you get really into it and then you can go back. And then you can, if you're anything like us, you'll be like, I prefer the early stuff before they got their shit together. Yeah, you might do if you're going to be an awkward bogger.
00:03:39
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As our ridiculous introduction may have tipped you off, this is a, I mean, it's not really, it's a very loosely American themed edition of the podcast.
Perceptions of America vs. Reality
00:03:49
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It is. Very, I mean, so it's tenuous.
00:03:53
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It's just a theme and I think it's more about the America of our imaginations rather than actually about America because I don't know about you. I've been to America a couple of times.
00:04:12
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It wasn't exactly like how I imagined it when I was in my younger days, because I totally fell for the cinematic and musical version that I imagined for myself, which was kind of a cross between David Lynch and friends. Okay. What were you expecting to see Dennis Hopper? Yeah, something like that. Something on a gas mask.
00:04:37
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Yeah, in Central Perk. Something like that. That'd be a good episode of Friends, the one with Frank Booth. Yeah. And he wouldn't really like that. In fact, some of it was a little bit like Coventry or something like that. But there you go. I must have gone to different parts of America. We must have. Anyway, one thing that we did experience
00:05:01
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was a place that was based on America, loosely again, that we both worked at, which no longer exists. And that was the American Adventure theme park. Yes, it was open between 1987 and 2007. It was a theme park built on an area of a country park that had been subject to deep seam and open cast coal mining.
00:05:30
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which is a very bucolic and attractive idea. We had a kind of an Old West and cowboys versus Native Americans theme. Let's put it that way. It did in its early days. That was what it was, really. There were less enlightened times. So it was definitely cowboys versus Native Americans. It was Wild West. Yes, yes, yes.
00:05:56
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And it was a theme park and it was it was right on our doorstep. So basically everybody our age, well, a lot of people our age who lived in Ilkeston would got a job there for the summer. Yeah, I don't know. I mean.
00:06:09
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It was all right. My memories of it are quite misty. I think I kind of sort of enjoyed working there. No, you didn't. You didn't. You hated it. I hated it. I hated it so much. But as I appreciate that as it gets further away, it looks more attractive in comparison with actual work.
00:06:31
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It was long days. Oh, the man, they were long days. And it was busy. You were probably the same as me as you kind of went through education into college and university. If you ever met somebody from Ilkeston where we lived or from Kirk Hallam, nearby Kirk Hallam or West Hallam, you'd always end up talking about the American venture. And everybody you met who was a similar age to you worked there. I met loads of people over the years who worked there. And you know, the idea of working in a theme park.
00:07:02
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I suppose, in theory. And we did various jobs, didn't we? But it was a funny one because I remember on the first year that I worked there, they were very into getting the staff to try and speak in American accents as well, which was a bit of a challenge for most people from the Ilkeston and Heena area.
00:07:30
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So it was a bit like, yeah, I'm a duck. Yes. When I worked there, I used to work on like the concession selling overpriced drinks and snacks to angry parents and angry parents. It was like basically their kids had said, I want to drink. And then you say that's £2 for a can of Coke and they'd just be chuntering to themselves about it.
Theme Park Antics and Performances
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But on my breaks, I would always make sure I timed it for, it was like a Wild West cowboy show that happened in an area of the park called Silver City. And at a certain time of the day, there'd be an announcement over the speakers and the guy would be really
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putting on his best American accent, and it would be something like, come on down to Silver City. I want all you little cow pokes and cow girls to come on down and help the sheriff, because some bad guys are going to rob the bank, and there's going to be fighting, and all sorts. And he'd just run out of steam at the end of it, and just kind of, and all sorts. And shut the mic off. That was very typical of the sort of thing, weren't it? More American adventure memories later. Should we listen to a song?
00:08:42
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Yes, this is a song from the first session of Johnny Domino recordings, which would be summer 1993, which was the only summer I worked there was summer 1993. And it features a story written by you being read by yourself and Abigail
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It was late July and the supervillain takes his family out for the day. Entrance fees and queues way down is already heavy mood. Children start flying off in several directions at work. It's blown on impact against the riots. A dad becomes a small voice. Buy me one of those.
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Small boy, in Texas, a farmer's cape, going to a giant bank of a man. The retail assistant hides his secret lander as a brat falls over and grazes his grubby knee on a pot of corn. Bone-carly impact for 100 years, which is a perfect moment for the grieving poor.
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The secret villain of this extended family, the church villain mid-day sent to find the toilets. He has a large black man on the horse head. After that, I noticed that she had an action coming in from out of the front.
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As a result and as a favour to the human race, super villains plays a religious crusade against bald fiend parks. It kills several laughing teenagers. Children squabble later on the mondrive home. Victims of the day out start a charity and self-help group. Doctors of the charity research club develop personal and portable fiend parks. Doctor Doom is spoiling the game.
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you
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Fall track madness. Hey, let's have a bit of tech talk. One of the things that we didn't often do with our fall track recorder was something called bouncing down. If we needed multiple instruments, we would tend to record them all at once, like getting people to kind of shake something in the background or play bass at the same time as a guitar track. Now on that one, for some reason, we ended up bouncing stuff down. But in doing it, I've discovered that by bouncing down,
00:12:51
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or three tracks onto one in a certain way, I could actually make the tape feedback. So that was what the noise was at the end. Oh, it was a good noise. I enjoyed it. Possibly a bit too much, but there you go.
00:13:02
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No, I liked it. And that was a song called Day Out about theme parks, I suppose, ostensibly. One being visited by a supervillain called Dr. Doom, who decides that he gets so annoyed with his kids on the day out that he tries to destroy people in the theme park. Yeah, I guess that's how I was feeling.
00:13:26
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Yeah, unfortunately, it's one of those songs we've talked about before where the vocals are a little bit too quiet. And no disrespect to Abigail. I think you can kind of tell she wasn't really into it. That was a one take. That was a one take because you can hear her laughing and clearing her throat at various points. Yeah, yeah. But it has its own charm. It did. It did. I quite liked it. And it did make me think about the American Adventure, really. I did do a couple of jobs at the American Adventure.
00:13:56
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I did spend some long days dressed as an Indian, you know, Native American. Right. In those days, it was definitely cowboys versus Indians. Yeah. And I had a black wig on. And obviously I couldn't wear my glasses because that would not be in character.
00:14:18
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No. And I had long days painting children's faces. Yes. And that was arduous, man. I mean, that would be from like half past nine in the morning till six o'clock at night with like, you know, minimal breaks with a queue of kids. Yeah. Mainly kids. That must have been quite challenging. It was hard work. But I got very good at painting very quickly. Probably learned more about painting doing that than I did at university, to be honest. Doing an arts degree.
00:14:47
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But the main reason I think that's quite challenging for you is because you'd have to do it without your glasses on.
00:14:54
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No, it's all right. You get close enough. You have to be quite close to their heads to paint them because you've got to clamp their head with one hand and then paint. And you know, I did loads of like cats and dogs. Difference between a cat and a dog is that the cat's got to paint those. Oh, right. Did loads of butterflies. Did a lot of Spider-Man. And Ultimate Warrior was very popular at that point. Interesting. Ultimate Warrior.
00:15:21
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The thing I remember about that period of you being at American Adventure is obviously every staff member, they weren't called cast members like they are at Disney. They were definitely staff members. You were staff. Yes, I was staff. They had to wear a name badge. Now, obviously they didn't have one for your name, Giles, but the closest they could come to it was Grin. Yeah.
00:15:43
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which I always thought was hilarious because... Because you don't think I grin very much. I think the Woodwood Brothers are not known for their jocular, easygoing attitude, sensibility. So the fact that you were called Grin. Grin, the myopic Indian. Yes, the myopic Native American face painter. Yes, that was it. And you hated it when you were there.
00:16:08
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I don't know about it. You did. I don't forget about it. Oh, rose-colored glass as much.
00:16:15
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Another good job I had, I had lots of jobs there, was in the days before they had an automated camera at the bottom of the log flume drop. People still wanted their photo taken. So me and my mate stood at the bottom of the log flume with two cameras and took photographs of the log flume cart as it went down the log flume. And then when we got to the end of the film, because it was a film camera,
00:16:44
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we'd like run the film to the to the office and then they'd get processed right and people would would get a ticket office as they went past and then they'd take it to a little booze and fill in an envelope and they'd get their photograph posted to them like a week later. That's mental. That was that was what it was like in them days. Past is like another country isn't it? Yeah it was mad wasn't it and I can't believe I'm that old.
Musical Inspirations and American Influence
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But here we are.
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Golden Memories of the American Adventure, which closed in 2007. Anyway, that was a song. That was all around one song that we listened to, which was... It was all right. I don't mind. I liked the sound at the end. Yeah. I enjoyed it. It was Carefree Days faffing about on the Ford track, the first season that we had it.
00:17:39
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We had an American Adventure theme park. One other interesting thing about the American Adventure is it was a band called the Electric Soft Parade. They got nominated for a Mercury Award. They were two brothers.
00:17:51
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Oh yeah. And apparently they were on tour for their first album and they were passing through somehow Ilkeston and Heena and they saw a sign for the American Adventure theme park and they thought that was just ridiculous that there was a theme park called the American Adventure in the middle of England and their second album was called the American Adventure.
00:18:13
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Yeah. And the second album did not go very well. It did. Not as well as the first one. But they actually named it after the theme park. Yep, they did. Bonkers. Get them on the podcast, Steve. So I'll send them this, but I might have to cut out the bit where I said they didn't go very well after that. I think they're still going. They'll know how well they did.
00:18:40
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I suppose they were there, weren't they? But, you know, they were on Jules Holland and everything. Yeah, yeah. Come on then, let's get into the next bit. Yeah. I mean, let's look to another song. Well, you were talking about America and the fact that when you went there, it didn't live up to your expectations. And, you know, in our little group of friends, we were all really into American culture, into American bands, American TV and American films. And
00:19:05
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At that point, none of us had been to America. Apart from our friend Dick, who previously appeared on the podcast a few episodes ago,
00:19:15
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He did a year of his degree in Kentucky, wasn't it? It was Kentucky he went to. And so he was the only one who had an experience of being in America. And when he came back from Kentucky, as was the way that we entertained ourselves, we formed a band called Billy Biff and Scooter. And this is the sum total of his experiences in America. This is what he brought back. And what's it called? This song is called Where's My Spittoon?
00:19:45
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Yeah, now think on.
00:20:23
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I sat in my chair and chewed my back and I was ready to spin it all over. But what did I find? Could find a spin. So I asked myself a question. Hey, where's my spin? Oh, where's my spin? Oh, that's the best I'm thinking of.
00:21:11
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Where's my spittoon? I said, I can't fit with a metal baggie. Where's my spittoon? I said, I can't fit. I looked in the house. I looked at Ferris. I looked in the bar.
00:21:40
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I looked into the house. I looked into the toilet. I looked into my grandma's. I couldn't find it nowhere. Where's my... material? I... I'm connected. This is too long.
00:22:26
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Over the hill came old Frank from over the hill. In his arms was a brightly shined-in spritude. I was so excited because back he was beginning to taste really foul, and I was ready to hurricane. Looking at the track, the sun was beginning to set, and I thought,
00:22:54
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We came up to the porch, and we already even put it all around. No way. Only I missed, and headed straight in the eye. Look out! I'll try it again. I got it. In there. It must be doing it. I got it. It's over my eye. This is my way out of here.
00:24:02
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I can only apologize to you if you were eating your fiddlest crispy pancakes at that point. Because a spitoon is a disgusted thing. What is a spitoon? It's a vessel for spitting in.
00:24:20
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That's so gross, man. That's what it is. Obviously that's what a spittoon is. You spit in, you spit in. That's so disgusting. If you're chewing tobacco, you're going to spit it eventually. And you would get one which has got pictures of the sun and the moon on the side, obviously.
00:24:35
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That was basically all of Dick's lyrics that he worked out in advance was, I've got a spittoon, it's a family heirloom with pictures of the sun and the moon engraved on the side. Yeah, I think the pictures of the sun and the moon might add a little something to it. Bit of gracitas.
00:24:52
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Yeah, definitely. But a disgusted thing. I like the sound though he's making, hitting probably not a spittoon. That's good. One of Mum and Dad's pans that was. Yeah, pretty good. I like the bit when he forgets to actually hit it. Yeah. He's got one job.
00:25:09
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and that was me on electric guitar, Dick on vocals and saucepan, I'm assuming, Albert on drums, and Jock on acoustic guitar, which is a cozy little combo. You sounded pretty good. Billy Biffen scooter. You got it going on there. Yeah, we did record some of the songs, but quite a few members of that band are professional people now.
00:25:38
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they don't want that kind of thing broadcasting widely. Well, I think the spittoon's bad enough. That's the most palatable one. Yeah, I know. We had fun. Do you think Dick came up with that because he had experiences of a spittoon while he was in Kentucky? I'm not sure. I have to ask him. I think he had experiences of chewing tobacco. Oh, did he? Probably. Yeah, probably, yeah. I've never done that. No, I can't think it's good for you.
00:26:06
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No, young people do something like that. They put little things in their mouths. Football ads do it. Do they? Yeah, it's like you get a little pouch, people get addicted to it. Weird. But I don't know whether they need a spittoon. Maybe spittoons are going to get revived. Hey, if anyone's advertising a spittoon, you know where to find it. Get the rights to that song. Right. I think that one's definitely going to go on the best off. I can think of worse songs.
00:26:34
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I would like to see that on volume two. The final song today is a Joey Domino song that we recorded three times called Trouble Free and it's not necessarily got an American theme but I think it kind of has got a bit of an American sort of
00:26:53
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vibe to it, I suppose. It's kind of a road type song anyway. Sounds like you're driving along. I mean, we talked in the past, we used to like a very romantic view of the road, probably from literature and films and things like that. And this one makes me think of the road. And one thing I remember when I first went to university, that was the first time I ever really took notice of the horizon, which sounds stupid.
00:27:23
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I know it's ridiculous, but I remember walking to clubs in Sheffield and seeing, gosh, what's the block of flats behind the train stations? Quite a famous block of flats, the kind of walkways, the streets in the sky, that kind of thing. And seeing that and just having my mind blown by it. And then when I went home,
00:27:46
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first seeing the horizon in the streets and houses where we lived and then going, oh, that's really amazing. Never really noticed it. You never looked up. No, no, no. But it's a revelation that you never noticed the horizon until you were like 19.
Visions of America Before Visiting
00:28:03
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This is so great. Grandma Moses, the revelation, you're using a sort of like a box camera. So the horizon made you think of America.
00:28:16
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No, it's just the fact that we used to, as I said, we had a wistful idea of America and what this stood for. And, you know, I think this song is about, to me, it sounds like it's about being in a small town and thinking about how you're going to get out and if you're going to get out, that kind of thing. Do you have a less wistful idea of America now? Oh, yeah. Big time.
00:28:41
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It is mental. I mean, I think we kind of thought it was mad at the time. And I think Dick certainly came when he came back, imparted some of the madness to us from his experiences going to university in Kentucky. Yeah, Kentucky.
00:28:58
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We haven't done enough like weird American accents in this. No, no. Well, you do a little bit on one of these versions of this song. Oh, God. Because this is a song which we did record three separate versions of. Now, one of them. Towards the end of Johnny Domino's. Active existence. Stop that. Sorry. All right. The first era is that the first era of the Marvel universe of Johnny Domino.
00:29:32
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Anyway, before we stopped doing it for the first time, I put up a free compilation album called The Best of the Shithouse Masters. Now that is what we called all of our Four Track recordings at the time. And one of the versions of Trouble Free was on there. And that was the third version. A third version. A third iteration. People who were listening to this podcast started to get
00:29:53
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There's Johnny Domino's Cinematic Universe.
00:30:01
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They're either going to turn it off or they've got to make cup of tea or they're just thinking, oh my God. Yeah.
Musical Critiques and Comparisons
00:30:09
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Anyway. Which one we're going to listen to first? Well, let's do the third one. What do you want to listen to a bit of the third one? Yeah. Go on then. Describe the third one quickly, briefly. Well, it's a very clean version and it's recorded very nicely on acoustic guitar. This is bonkers that were listening to last version first, but OK, let's go with it.
00:30:34
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So this is where we ended up. Sounds a bit Arian. Out of time here at Arian.
00:31:15
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So, yeah, that was all right. But the first two versions are, as often is the case, they're better though, aren't they? They're kind of a lot more abrasive. More true to the song, I think. I think the second version is better. You think? I do. But for the sake of completeness, shall we listen to a little bit of the first version? No.
00:31:58
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See, that's the thing that annoys me about that version because as I say, pretty. And it's all right. Yeah. And like it's the basic sketch of the song. But I think the second version is like where we actually nail it. The dog's barking. The dog loves it. Do you want to hear it again? It is slightly different version.
00:33:01
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places I don't want
00:33:23
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We must do what we promised and stow each other away From the safety of the toll we walked into
00:34:34
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We stopped the furnace of love Unto the seatbelts of fear The holes are joined by glue and tape Making sure
00:36:00
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Not mentioned them for a while, but God bless Jack and Olive. I was just thinking the exact same thing because... Let's just mention who Jack and Olive are. Oh yes, sorry, of course. Because they don't know.
00:36:15
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Sorry, Jack and Olive were our next door neighbors. And my bedroom, where I recorded all these songs, they joined their house. And bless their hearts, Jack was deaf as a post. Olive's hearing was not up to much, but they did like to hear us doing things. And they never once complained about us making a noise in all that recording. That bass guitar part was recorded very loud.
00:36:45
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Both guitar parts were pretty loud as well. They were both really, really loud. Yeah. I mean, I was listening to it and I have a memory of, and I think it was on the second version where I put the drum machine speaker, which was a huge keyboard amp that we had. I put that in the bathroom to try and get, I mean, you can't tell, made no difference to the sound whatsoever. I remember it was quite a lot of effort to carry this massive speaker into the bathroom.
00:37:13
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God, it indulged. Did you get a particular sound? Yeah, which didn't really work. I mean, you hear about Joe Meek recording vocals in the bathroom and I thought, well, have I got it wrong? But yeah, I think I'm going to agree with you. I think the second version is best. It is. I was just staring out the window while that was on and the sun's going down, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. There's a nice orange tint in the sky and I was looking at the horizon.
00:37:42
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Oh, yes. And I was just noticing it. I was just noticing the horizon. And I was just like, I was loving it, man. That song. Tell me some more about that song. I liked it. That second version was good, right? I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I mean, I was very... Is it Glooman? The Fugazi song. I really liked the feedbacky, sort of noisy guitar bits that Ian Mackay does on songs like that and that kind of...
00:38:11
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It's very fugazi and I've basically stolen musically part of Good Morning Captain by Slint for that weird sort of like devil's interval, diminished fifth on the chorusy bit. And we kind of removed it on the third version. I just enjoyed listening to that. Did you agree with me that that is the best version? Yeah, because the vocals are a lot better.
00:38:39
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As you say, it's less affected and you sing it quite straight and I play it quite straight. There's no sort of additional rhythm guitar parts. It's just very sort of these are the notes that need to be played. So even if no one else got anything out from this podcast, we did because we reassessed some of our recordings and we decided on which one was the best of an ancient song that we recorded ages ago that no one ever heard. So there you go. So at least we got something out of it.
00:39:09
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So of the three songs that we listened to, which one would be potentially going on to volume two of the very best of this, our Johnny Domino? Well, I think definitely the second version of Trouble Three. I'm down with that. Yeah. From the Safety of the Dome. It is about Logan's run, by the way. It's nothing to do with America.
00:39:36
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Yes. And I think we should also include Billy Bifford's scooter. Where's my spittoon as well? Okay. Don't you? Look, I'll go along with it. It's cool. I want that. I'd like that to be on Spotify. You'd like to hear where's my spittoon on Spotify. You'd like that occasionally popping up on someone's playlist. Just in case there is like a spittoon revival. Okay. Well, we'd better get volume two done very quickly then. It could happen.
00:40:03
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Okay, that's good. So we've fulfilled the remit of the podcast. Thank you for listening to the podcast. If you have enjoyed it, please share it with someone that you know. Just hold hard there a moment. You let me go really far into that then. That was much further than you let me go normally. Just hold hard. Hold hard. Okay, okay. Because I've thought of something.
00:40:30
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to say. And it was just something that I was listening to the other day and something I've been listening to a lot recently. And you know how this episode is about American music and America, American inspired music. Would it surprise you that I'm not going to talk about anything American and nothing to do with country music or anything at this end? But it would surprise me. I'm going to talk about a Welsh language album.
00:41:00
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I've been listening to Gueno. Oh yeah. And I've been listening particularly to the 2014 album, which I'm going to try and pronounce, Iredith Ola. Is that the album I bought you? I think you might have bought it. I think I bought you for Christmas. Yeah, yeah. It was on the bottom of a pile for a very long time.
00:41:21
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And I've listened to it, I have listened to it on and off, but I've just dug it out again and I can't stop listening to it, it's such a good album. I am absolutely loving it and it's an album which every song is in Welsh apart from one which is in Cornish.
00:41:38
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And it's based on a Welsh language science fiction novel called The Last Day. Can I just say, if ever an album was bolted on for you to listen to, it was a Welsh language album about a science fiction novel.
00:41:56
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That's got your name written all over it. I know, but it took me such a long time to get into it, Steve. Yeah. And now I am completely obsessed with it. Right. And I think Gueno on this album is a kind of a genius, actually. Really. I mean, I love the sound of it.
00:42:15
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It was her first album, and she started making it a long time before the album actually got recorded. And it began as a collection of everyday sounds and field recordings and stuff that she kind of made. And they're all these kind of sounds that have been sampled. And you can kind of tell it's got a texture to it, which is really interesting.
00:42:40
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And the whole album is like, it's kind of electro, but it's got kind of a wonky aesthetic to it. Homemade, isn't it? Yeah. And the instruments are like really interesting sound. And I've listened to her like more recent work. I'm afraid I'm not, I'm not loving it as much. It's like the last two albums she's recorded. There's some good stuff on there, but they just don't got the charm of this first album. I really, really love it. And I think she's gone down the route of having more like a band and stuff like that play.
00:43:08
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Whereas this has really got a great sound to it and it sounds like something that someone's collaged together. I really love listening to the music in a different language, I think.
Literary Connections and Listener Engagement
00:43:20
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I honestly don't know the story of the science fiction novel, but interestingly, the English translation is just being published off Amazon and it's going to be released in June.
00:43:33
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So I'm going to buy the English translation of the book that the album is based on by an author called Owain Owain who wrote it in 1976. I'm going to read it and then I'll tell you whether it's as good as the album. That's my tip top tip. It is a tip top tip from 10 years ago. Your tip top tip from 10 years ago is a Welsh language album.
00:44:02
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with one tongue in Cornish. Yes. Thank you very much for that. I love how abstract it is on a podcast episode which is loosely about American things. You're not talking about country music, you're talking about a Welsh language electro-pop album. That's the way we roll, man. It certainly is. And that is why we never got successful.
00:44:26
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It's that kind of wonky logic that lead is where we are. Yeah. So the next episode of the Joey Domino podcast is going to be out in a couple of weeks time, hopefully. Yes. Fingers crossed. And it's going to be another
00:44:42
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All Them Trimmings episodes. Some more of Them Trimmings. More of Them Trimmings. So we're going to be hearing some more songs that people have recorded in response to our incredible lyrics that we found in the book Rock Talk.
00:44:57
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by the band Out To Lunch, Dale and John T. And if you have still not recorded your version of the song, you've got time still, you know we might be able to include it in a future episode, so send it in.
00:45:14
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And also if you've got any old little nuggets of four track recording that you've made, we're doing this just to share our crap. Share your crap with us and we'll play it and we can all enjoy our own wonderfulness together. Beautiful. That's what we're going to do. Thank you very much for listening. If you've enjoyed it, please share it with one person that you know who you think would be interested. Preferably a cool person.
00:45:43
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Doesn't matter. Also, followers on social media, on Instagram and Facebook, all the relevant links and related video material will be included in the show notes. Thank you very much. Love you, Steve. Back at you, bro.