Tall Firs’ guitar player Aaron Mullan returned to In the Listening Room to answer some follow-up questions about Sonic Youth’s Sacred Trickster. We specifically asked Aaron to comment on cassiusitsover (15 hours ago and increasing)’s comment Wow the singer is tall.
Says Aaron: Yeah big tall guy. But you know, although tall guys are all the rage on the mound these days, T is more of a throwback really. He’s not coming at you with just fastball, changeup, curve. He’ll bust out a submarine knuckleball in a 2-0 count just to watch you jump back from the plate. About 1/3 of the time his stuff is going straight at your head or behind your back, or is in the dirt. Not out of malice, he can just get a little wild. If anybody does get on base against him, they can be pretty sure to advance because his pickoff move isn’t so effective and what with all the passed balls there’s just a lot of chaos out there that an alert baserunner can exploit. I wouldn’t put T in with the bases loaded and nobody out. Control issues. Just not the spot for a guy like this. Start him, or use him in long relief.
Aaron (right) accuses T of cheating at guitar
1) Did you produce and/or engineer this record? I think I received co-engineer credit.
2) Is this record overproduced? I’m struggling to think of any record (by any band, ever) I would consider overproduced. Each record is its own thing. I love the Mummies’ ‘Never Been Caught’ and I love McCartney’s ‘Band on the Run’. I mean what, do I think all hardcore should sound like Negative Approach [Tied Down 12 inch is overproduced -Ed] and that the Circle Jerks’ VI sucks because of how it was recorded [it sucks because of the songs -Ed] [Dude! Beat Me Senseless? Patty's Killing Mel? You can borrow my copy if you need to re-evaluate -Aaron] [Oops could have listened to Group Sex five times by now -Ed] [Fuck dude, forgot about All Wound Up and Casualty Vampire, it's been 15 years since I've heard it, -Ed]? I bet some people do think that, huh?
3) We all agree that the Sacred Trickster affected Allen Ginsberg. but who did it affect in the oughts? Or even right now?!? You know, I never even thought about what the heck the sacred trickster was. I guess I figured it was something to do with Coyote the trickster. -Pause while I google- Not finding much. -Pulls book of Native American mythology from shelf- Well, that Coyote sure is up to a lot of funny stuff! Here’s one where he puts all the stars in the sky! Not sure where you’re going with this one, though. Are you looking for Native American influenced counterculture types? The Electric Indian – “Keem-O-Sabe” or is that too mersh? How about Effi Briest covering Jim Pepper’s Newly-Weds song? Love that.
Aaron, if The Electric Indian “Keem-O-Sabe” is too mersh, you need to buy a television immediately and start watching Jersey Shore lest Echo Canyon make you permanently unable to make small talk. And don’t you dare turn it to CSPAN or Jim Leherer. Thanks again Aaron and thanks again to all the readers who submitted questions. For further reading on the Sacred Trickster this book looks pretty good -Hyde uses such examples as Marcel Duchamp, Allen Ginsberg, and Maxine Hong Kingston, vividly illustrating the`trickster consciousness” as a vital component of human imagination–
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In other news, Detroit is printing its own money. Put Kathy on it?
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