Jazz
Mucus
for Funk
People
EP (C8)
(1982)
Personnel
Iain
(Dead Olac Jr)
Livingstone
: Bass;
Drums;
Dog Whistle;
Chanter;
Vocals
Alasdair
(My Name
is Not
Bod)
Mackay:
Guitar;
Vocals;
Drums
Roddy
(Huggan)
Huggan:
Vocals,
Drums,
Guitar
Recorded
in the Dead Olacs’
sitting
room
again,
this
time
with a
real
bass and
electric
guitar,
although
the
drums
this
time
consisted
of a
cassette
box
placed
near the
microphone
and
played
with two
biro
pens.
This was
the
first
use by
the
Guireans
of
“multi-track”
recording,
achieved
by
recording
the
backing
tracks
on one
tape
recorder
then
playing
them
back
while
recording
on
another,
and
singing
at the
same
time.
“Wall of
Sound”
pioneer
Phil
Spector
was
alleged
to be
quaking
in his Cuban-heeled wellies
when he
heard of
the
advanced
studio
techniques
being
developed
in
Hitsville,
Sandwick.
The EP
format
was
chosen
because
Dead Olac's
mammy had
got a
radio-cassette
player
for her
birthday,
and
there
was a
wee demo
cassette
supplied
with it
which
could be
taped
over.
The new
Guireans
lineup
came
together
through
the
involvement
of its
members
in
“proper”
bands;
Dead Olac
and Aird
Tong art
terrorist
Bod were
in
ill-fated
Doors
wannabes
The Dark
Visit,
and the
early
incarnation
of
a-bit-better-fated
Doors
wannabes
The
Subterraneans.
Beatles
Anorak
Huggan
was a
groupie
and
later
singer
of Gress’
very own
earnest
early
80s
post-punk
TSB Rock
School
finalists
The Mean
Time.
(In
different
circumstances
the Mean
Time
could
have
given
U2,
Simple
Minds
and Big
Country
a run
for
their
money.
The
aforementioned
bands
were
always
banging
on about
honesty,
passion
and
integrity
and
flirting
with
Christian
symbolism,
but the
Mean
Time
went one
better,
boasting
the
minister
of
Stornoway
Free
Church
himself
on the
drums.
Admittedly,
Mean
Time
sticksfuhrer
and
home-made
“Stranglers”
jacket-wearing
Uibhisteach
the Rev
Kenneth
Stewart
didn’t
actually
do both
jobs at
the same
time).
Roddy's
Mean
Time
Website on msn groups used to have further details... until fleekeen B*ll G*tes deleted it a few years back.
Several
years
later,
when
House
music
was
hitting
the
nation
for the
first
time,
the
bassline
on “Jazz
Mucus
for Funk
People”
(1982,
remember)
was
spotted
on
M.A.R.R.S’
allegedly
seminal
“Pump
Up The
Volume”
(1987).
How they
could
have
sampled
it when
there’s
only one
tape in
existence
is a
mystery,
and to
this day
Huggan,
Dead Olac
and Bod
are each
convinced
that the
other
two of
the trio
secretly
formed
M.A.R.R.S
to make
a
fortune
and
deprive
them of
their
rightful
earnings.
Tracks
1.
Jazz
Mucus
for Funk
People
2. Blues
Music
for
Manic
Depressive
People
3. Gob
Music
for Puke
People
4. Hendrix
Music
for
Feedback
People