A very very long time ago (Spring 1979 I think) my friend Craig Wilson who was very much into The Residents put it to me that we should do a cassette only release.
We would call ourselves The Marilyn Monroes. The music was to be very heavily influenced by The Residents Red Crayola Swell Maps and Vibing up the Senile Man era ATV.
Craig would be Billy Artaud and I would be Pete Shoes. Now you might notice in the Fanzine interview we are now Pete Shoes, Landing Craft and Byrd??? There was never a 3rd person and as you can see the names got changed, if I remember rightly the changing of names was a brief but ongoing thing. The music for the cassette was to
be recorded in my bedroom over the course of 2 evenings but in fact we did it over one evening, and like The
Residents no one would ever know who The Marilyn Monroes really were. Of
course as time went by we did tell people it was us. Strangely when we
did the interview with the Fanzine it said we were practising in Petes
Garage???? Never had a Garage it was my bedroom, perhaps we thought
garage sounded better than bedroom...or maybe not. The Toy organ I used
was a 1960s Sunrise Sunreed. With 25 coloured keys.
I lost my copy of the cassette many years ago. But a chance meeting one evening with Brian (who I had not seen for decades) from legendary bods Renaldo and The Loaf proved to be very fruitful. Brian informed me that
our release had inspired Renaldo and the Loaf to do a cassette release
themselves. Brian also revealed that he still had a copy and would burn
it to disc for me. So after many many years I finally got to see our mad
old Cassette creation again. I last saw Craig in 2007/08 (I think) He
turned up round my house with some mutual friends. We chatted about old
and daft times. Sadly Craig Passed away in 2018. Some more thoughts and words on all this here with Bob Fischer.
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