Buy This, You Cheap Bastard!
Tracks:
CD version:
Here Comes the Heavy Rock / BATF / Class Act / Mark Twain Country /
You Can't Say That / The Swing Song / Cruel and Unusual Punishment /
Thousand-Mile-an-Hour Puke Machine / Dispose-a-Baby / No Slogans /
Wannabe / The Piranha Chomp
Cassette version:
Here Comes the Heavy Rock / Class Act / You Can't Say That /
The Swing Song / Dispose-a-Baby / Wannabe / The Piranha Chomp
Produced by John Beatty
Tracks 1,3,4,7,8,11 & 12 recorded April 11-18 at MegaHammer studios on 4 tracks. Bass overdubs at Papa Shango's House of Dub (and Karaoke Bar).
Tracks 2,5,6,9 & 10 recorded and mixed April 1997 by Dave Klausner at Magic Carpet Studios, Newfield, NY on 16 tracks.
Jeff Guinness – vocals
Johnny VD – guitar and vocals
Crazy J – bass and vocals
Clint Beige – drums
Scotty Cognito – bass on 2,5,6,9 & 10
Special thanks to the bands who blacklisted us and talk shit about us. You make our job easier
THE LINER NOTES:
Making this EP has been the most traumatic experience for the Fink Squad since the making of the last one.
We went into MegaHammer Studios (which look remarkably like Jeff's apartment with a lot of recording equipment on the kitchen table, but that's just one in a set of remarkable coincidences which plagued this recording) on April 11 to record the basic tracks. The recording itself was typical: we ran out of beer, half the band was sick and one of the cords died during recording, so all of the bass tracks except one had to be re-recorded later.
MegaHammer was not free for the bass overdubs because Jeff had to work the next day Iron Maiden was recording their new album that night) so we went into Papa Shango's House of Dub (and Karaoke bar) (which looks rather a bit like John's kitchen). Due to the festivities in the next room, J had to sit very still while recording. If he moved the bass even an inch, it would pick up the noise from the next room (and the bad power).
The next day saw us back in MegaHammer for the vocal and guitar overdubs. We ran out of beer again. We were also rushed because we had a show that evening. Phil Anselmo turned up to do backing vocals, but he got pissed off because we kept asking him to sing "Rock the World" and "Proud to be Loud" from Pantera's classic 1988 Power Metal album, a favorite of ours. Keith Richards stopped by to play a guitar solo, but he was too drunk to tune his guitar properly. The Spice Girls declined our invitation to come and sing on our cover of "Wannabe" because of contractual obligations, so we ended up doing the vocals ourselves.
This is our CD. If you don't like it, it makes a fine beer coaster or a frisbee. Buy a whole set of them for your front porch, because we know that's where you do all your drinking.