The MERCYFUNKS : Don’t Pet The White Dog
In 1999, “The List of Who Lives” was released by visual artist Kevin Teare to critical musical acclaim in such publications as The Village Voice, CMJ & MOJO. Teare was a founding member of the 80′s No-Wave band MX-80 SOUND. The List of Who Lives featured all original material with guest performances by such luminaries as Terence Stamp, Jay Daugherty, Wayne Kramer, Richard Lloyd and Bob Neuwirth.
Teare’s recent project: The MERCYFUNKS, has just released, “Don’t Pet The White Dog”, an original thirty song homage to The Beatles’ “White Album”.
Each CD and record are individually numbered and comes with a full color poster ala Richard Hamilton’s “The Beatles” original.
The recording features a core band comprised of Pony Thompson: Vocals, Jewlee Trudden: Guitar, Keelan James: Piano and Kevin Teare: Drums. The material for this double album was recorded quickly and almost entirely live.
“Don’t Pet The White Dog” features guest performances by Pat Place of The Bush Tetras, Jay Daugherty of Patti Smith, composer Carter Burwell, artist Dennis Oppenheim, John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful, Apple recording artist Paul Glanz, Sara Lee of The Gang of 4 & B-52′s, Peter Stampfel of The Fugs / Holy Modal Rounders, Paul Most of das rockenfeber and ex-bandmate Bruce Anderson of MX-80 Sound.
It will be released to the public on November 22, marking the 46th anniversary of The Beatles’ original recording. The material on “Don’t Pet The White Dog” was recorded between July 2012 and October 2013 in the painting studio of Kevin Teare using an Otari 16 track 1″ reel to reel. The analog tracks were bounced to digital and mixed at Monk Music by Cynthia Daniels. The tracks included for the vinyl version were mixed down to Otari 2 track reel to reel and pressed from this analog source at Telegraph Mastering in Portland, Oregon by Adam Gonsalves.
70 % of the proceeds from sales of the CD, LP and all merchandise available through the website will be donated to Lyme Nation, the most honest and progressive clearinghouse for all information and treatment protocols concerning the global epidemic of tick-borne diseases.
Credits
DISC 1WELL PARTY OF ONE WE WAS TRANSFORMED CONSTELLATION (for Chris Stamp) NOTHING TO LOSE I’M IN LOVE (with The Secret Government) BELLE LAIDE GO-GO FEEL FALL HIGHER GROUND (for Vera Farmiga) MORE & MORE RUN AWAY ( for Andrew Loog Oldham) PROVE ME NOW HELLO GOODBYE |
DISC 2THE WALLS OF JERICHO TURNPIKE SOUTH TOWER SCREEN SAVER READ RELEASE AGE (I fought The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics won) OCCUPATION NH4 NO3 DAFFODILS SEVEN POINT EIGHT THREE HURTS ALL TOMORROW’S AZTECS WHY ( I don’t wanna know ) FACE 39*10′ N / 78*10′ W ( DICK On The Headstone) OH COME NOW CHAPTER TO THE WIVES I’M GONNA LOVE LINDSAY LOHAN FOOLISH BIRTHDAY |