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Black & White The Holey Smoke Show “Super Turkey/ Tasty Is As Tasty Do” (Gropnook 30052) 1976 This record is completely and utterly wasted. Intriguing, unique, and listenable, but ultimately wasted. Perhaps sometime in the future, music magazines such as the one you are holding will be equipped with a headphone jack where one can just plug in and listen to the sounds the author is raving about. In this case, it al- most seems necessary, as words will certainly fail to communicate the power and scorched trajectory of “Super Turkey.” The seem- ingly anonymous 45 hails from Kansas City (thank God for that notation on the label) and is the work of one man and several overdubbed tracks of seriously shredded guitar. “Super Turkey” changes meaning every time I listen to it, so I can’t really convey what it’s about. Cocaine, your sex life on TV, dancing, concen- tration, and things that are tasty are mentioned. The breakdown
at the halfway point makes the Ron Wray Light Show 45 sound like it has no fuzz whatsoever, and you can see Sunn O))) and them scribbling furious notes beneath their spilling manes. The flip is the same extended Big Muff sprawl, but with the lyrics changed to paint a burnt love portrait of Mary Hartman, perhaps in a vain attempt to bridge the topical and secure the fan base of other pigtail obsessives. It might actually be a deep aberration of my mind, but I’m almost certain that I have seen a 12-inch ver- sion of this thing, complete with Day-Glo animal picture cover, where the chemtrail guitar streams have been replaced with stock jungle sounds, macaw cries, and everything. And I swear there was a bumper sticker enclosed (safety orange, natch) that read: SUPER TURKEY. . Dante Carfagna
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