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MATTHEW D. GUARNERE / M.D.G. The Best of the Mass Produced Cassette Released: December 2007 Format: Promo CD/mp3 online Label: Manfred Records/What's Real Unlimited (WRCD-1139) Status: Stream entire album below. Read the press release. Credits: In the mid-80's, despite the wonders of MTV, gravity-defying hair mousse, and that strangely familiar looking guy on Happy Days, television was just not all that interesting to watch (save for General Hospital). And computers had not planted their program-perfect little brainwashing bits & bytes into every single home just yet. I needed to find some kind of creative, legal way of keeping myself busy after school. As a child, I fell in love with 70's comedy albums by geniuses like Monty Python, Cheech & Chong, and Steve Martin. For years, I dreamed I could create something with a similar kind of sonic insanity and although I was just a high school student with no real writing experience, I found myself feverishly scribbling down strange script ideas and coming up with goofball characters that I thought perhaps I could play. My bedroom turned into a simple, but fairly serious little recording studio with Manfred, my ultra-cool, cow colored cat standing by to give me meow-ral support. By the end of 1986, I'd put together a stockpile of some pretty diverse material, but I had absolutely no idea what to do with it. Christmas was just a few weeks away and I'd been so busy recording that I hadn't done a lick of shopping yet. Then it suddenly came, my holiday decree ... "I must assemble a 60-minute audio variety program made up of all this stuff. I shall copy it onto many cassettes," (the only format I could afford), "put a rubber chicken on the cover, and give the tapes to friends and family as gifts!" "Merry Christmas everyone! You're all getting the same thing! I know you're gonna love it, because you all love me!" And so the impersonal, yet intimately hilarious Mass Produced Cassette, or M.P.C., was born. Never before released on any digital medium, these original 1985-88 recordings were made using almost every conceivable type of analog tape format and production technique. With the advent of today's computer audio tools, giant steps have been taken to improve the quality, continuity, and above all, the oddinuity of every single track. A special thank you to Blackdog Recording Studios for providing me with such a comfy facility in which to sort out the miles of tape. Three volumes of thanks must go to all the comedic and musical contributors featured on this record ... and I'm so sorry Geddy, but I was just a wacky young lad who really loved your band! - M.D.G. August, 2007 All tracks recorded & produced by M.D.G. (and Manfred) 1985-1988, 2007 All material digitally transferred from the original analog source tapes at What's Real Unlimited and Blackdog Recording Studios 1994, 2007 Remixed (wherever possible), assembled & mastered at Blackdog by M.D.G. July-December 2007 All voice-overs and main characters played by M.D.G. except where noted Additional character roles and musical performances played by Robert "Pariah Duke Shroom Fish Head" Scribble, Vince "Purple Vincent" Guarnere, John "Purple Grape" Piano, Kevin "Keith" Conklin, Jeff "Weenie Kai" Morrison, Don "Dr. Swartz" Zimmer, A.D. "Bubba Z" Zimmer, Greg "Pooness" Steele, and Dorian "DJ Doe" Leander Cover illustration by Ryan DeClerck, additional imagery by M.D.G. Back cover, disc design & hand lettered calligraphy by M.D.G. Concept & package layout by M.D.G. This compilation  2007 What's Real Unlimited (ASCAP)
All original M.D.G. material © 1986-88, 2007 DEMONSTRATION. NOT FOR SALE. FEW RIGHTS RESERVED. TRY AND SUE ME.
Originally recorded: 1987 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, some tracks w/ DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. II 1987
Originally recorded: 1987 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, and stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. II 1987 4. Rush Onstage - Get Offstage!
GREG STEELE • Alex KEVIN CONKLIN • guitar Originally recorded: 1987 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, some tracks w/ DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. II 1987 6. No Fleas Please by Whyism
VINCE GUARNERE • guitar, mouth drums & percussion Originally recorded: 1987 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel decks, DBX noise reduction on final bounce First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. II 1987 8-9. Waters Meham - Parts 1 & 2
VINCE GUARNERE • guitar Originally recorded: 1986 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. I 1986 B - ZARRE SIDE 11. I Am Manny The Frog
Originally recorded: 1988 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. III 1988
ROBERT SCRIBBLE • voices, synthesizer Originally recorded: 1986, 1988 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reels, and 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, some tracks w/ DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. III 1988
KEVIN CONKLIN • guitar JEFF MORRISON • bass, synthesizers M.D.G. • drums, percussion Originally recorded: 1987 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. II 1987
ROBERT SCRIBBLE • voices Originally recorded: 1986 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. I 1986
DON ZIMMER • voices, Casio organ, sound effects A.D. ZIMMER • voices, bass, guitar Originally recorded: 1986 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. I 1986
ROBERT SCRIBBLE • voices, synthesizer Originally recorded: 1986 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. I 1986
VINCE GUARNERE • Purple Vincent, sound effects JOHN PIANO • Purple Grape, sound effects Originally recorded: 1980, 1988 Format/technique: 1970's mono cassette machine w/ built-in microphone, montage assembled on 8-track, 1/2 inch, some tracks w/ DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. III 1988
ROBERT SCRIBBLE • phased guitar Originally recorded: 1985 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. III 1988
ROBERT SCRIBBLE • Pariah Duke Shroom Fish Head, voices Originally recorded: 1986 Format/technique: ping-ponging stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape decks First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. I 1986
GREG STEELE • Alex A.D. ZIMMER • bass Originally recorded: 1988 Format/technique: 8-track, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel, and stereo, 1/4 inch reel-to-reel, DBX noise reduction First released on: The Mass Produced Cassette Vol. III 1988 |
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