Painted Faces – Tales From The Skinny Apartment. Vinyl LP
Painted Faces – Tales From The Skinny Apartment. Vinyl LP
Tales from the Skinny Apartment is somewhere around the 20th or so Painted Faces release...Drucker has long lost count. He runs/curates gigs (and records at) the Skinny Apartment, his dwelling place in Ridgewood Queens, which some folks have called the "realest DIY zone in NYC." He also rips in Dead River Company, Big Hiatus, Shecky, Canyon River Blues and countless other unknown subterranean improv zoner outfits. "Ripping" involves keeping it freaky and weird and ripping sets wherever/whenever, ie always being down to perform whether in a kitchen or a packed ballroom....no diva bullshit, just plugging in (or going sans electricity) and playing...always giving it your all...Ridgewood Rippers are the crew of artists that populate Ridgewood and the loose "scene" around the Skinny Apartment...much of it is in jest, a self-inflated mythology of nonsense which is pervasive in all rock and roll "scene" histories. As a student of rock/pop history, Drucker is fascinated by the loose associations that connect folks from various zones together...i.e. Miles Davis and The Grateful Dead...it's all the same though, the labels and genre distinctions are completely arbitrary. We're all in this together, now more than ever...to be a "ripper" is simply to "rip"...no nonsense!
Factory Sealed (New)
ESP Disk – ESP5032LP
Tracklist:
A1 Chicks That Are Into Beefheart (And Jandek)
A2 Florida Bat Salad
A3 Nightmare On Drucker Street
A4 I Took Too Much Acid In 7th Grade
A5 Island Of Tragedy
A6 Follow Me Down On Instagram
A7 Seafood Special
B1 My Mom Was A Hebrew School Teacher
B2 Massachusetts Is A Magical Place
B3 The Ridgewood Ripper
B4 I Don't Want To Listen To Your Tape (Cellar Dweller)
