Sammy Gong's Podcast Sammy Gong

In early November of 1990, my roommates and some friends stayed up all night drinking. I think it was drinking, and we decided to get some instruments and go down to ODU and play music for money. We first stared chanting some shit we made up, but because we mentioned broccoli, people thought we were making incisive commentary about HW Bush. We earned enough money to drink again that night. That is not a joke, though we were by intent. Anyway, we made up a couple of songs and rushed out a tape and played a couple open mics at Cogan's, and then acknowledged that we really just wanted to get wasted and listen to Paul's Boutique or whatever jazz or 13th Floor Elevators or Velvet Underground or whatever we had on hand until we watched whatever movie we could round up before we passed out, and we stopped rocking out as the GTC. Sometime in January 1991, we watched "In Cold Blood" and I kinda freaked out and got a job rolling tortillas at Colley Cantina, a practice that ended when I left Norfolk to move to Colorado.

A collection of some of the tapeloops I made in Texas using a Technics 1200, a Technics take deck and a Gemini Scratchmaster. They are lo-fi and primitive as hell. Enjoy.

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Wow
3. For Me
4. From Where The Sound
5. New Chapter
6. PLO Style
7. New Jacked Swinger
8. Obligatory Brown
9. Strawberry Inn
10. Non-Native Creeper
11. Baby Break
12. Purchasing Power
13. MD
14. No Blame (radio edit)
15. Things that Sound Like This
16. Los Angeles
16. Three-Note Bounce House
18. Underdog
19. Creeper (Part 2)
20, Penultimate
21. Summation

How do dem say dem sell Jah for 30 pieces of silver, Jah Jah live forever, Him a go come with lightning and thunder. Linear flow from the man U-Roy, but check when he drops the track title as the piano hit the skank. Epic cut of Girl I Got a Date, really, really epic. Yeah yeah, it's a Marley cut, get over it. Hypocrites, liars and thieves, and dub.

Yma Sumac, Chaino, Mercy Baby, Long John Hunter and The Jewels. Dig that sound, man.