The Musical Archive of Allen Myers
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The Earliest Years: 1979-1985 None of these recordings can currently be located. They include projects with "The Lantrens" and "Sour Cream & Bean". Please contact me if you have any of these recordings.
Period One: The First 10 albums 1986-1987, recording as Butch Myers. Lo-Fi, no multi-track recorder. All recordings made by bouncing cassette tapes back and forth. No punch-ins.
Butch Myers - Three Bean Salad
Release Date: Summer 1986 - Playing Time: 64min 28 sec
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Butch Myers - May Your Name Be a Breakfast Pastry
Release Date: 10/5/1986 - Playing Time: 34min 23 sec


Butch Myers - Nose-Plow Machine Number Three
Release Date: 10/11/1986 - Playing Time: 40min 56 sec


Butch Myers - Patterns on an Avacado Pit
Release Date: 11/25/1986 - Playing Time: 42min 57 sec


Butch Myers - A Pseudo-Random Collection
Release Date: December 1986 - Playing Time: approx 60 min

Each cassette contained random selections from the the first four albums.
Butch Myers - Mutant Fiesta
Release Date: 1987 - Playing Time: 36min 10 sec
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Butch Myers - Box
Release Date: 1987 - Playing Time: 34min 51 sec
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Butch Myers - Polymorph Melodies
Release Date: 1987 - Playing Time: 42min 47 sec
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Butch Myers - In the Absence of Deception
Release Date: 6/27/1987 - Playing Time: 43min 39 sec
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Butch Myers - Picnic I
Release Date: 8/24/1987 - Playing Time: 43min 41 sec
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Period Two: The Next 23 albums 1988-1989, recording as Butch Myers. Lo-Fi, now using a 4-track cassette recorder (except for the albums July 28-29 and August 2).
 
 
Butch Myers - No Sandpaper (Yes Cottonball)
Release Date: 1/4/1988 - Playing Time: 45min 50 sec
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Butch Myers - Music for Tall Trees
Release Date: 1/7/1988 - Playing Time: 30min 50 sec


Butch Myers - A Peace Prayer
Release Date: 1/8/1988 - Playing Time: 37min 38 sec
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Butch Myers - Music o' the Many Sorts
Release Date: 1/17/1988 - Playing Time: 38min 40 sec
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Butch Myers - Ih
Release Date: 1/24/1988 - Playing Time: 34min 01 sec
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Butch Myers - Mortar, Pestle & Skullhead
Release Date: 1/31/1988 - Playing Time: 38min 32 sec
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Butch Myers - Archemedes' Spiral
Release Date: 2/7/1988 - Playing Time: 46min 05 sec
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Butch Myers - A Second Pseudo-Random Collection
Release Date: February 1988 - Playing Time: approx 90 min
[cover art missing - please contact me if you have the cover art for this album] Compilation containing selections from the the previous twelve albums. I have no copies of these and don't know which songs were on the release.
Butch Myers - Sleep Sequel A
Release Date: 2/17/1988 - Playing Time: 39min 29 sec
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Butch Myers - Almost Like Mama's Ecru
Release Date: 3/8/1988 - Playing Time: 82min 05 sec
Track 01 - A Number of Songs with titles that don't correspond with the breaks in the music:
The Empty Glass
Donald Duck Shoes
The Merciful Balloon
The Heaviside Relation
Purple Robe
Crack'd Conch
Seymore the Solenoid
Little Baby Becomes Kitchen
The Roadster
O to Displace the Lime
Plastic Pitchfork
My Squeaky Bird Bath
Spoon-Size Moon
Archie Bunker's Face
Udge
Smiles All Abound
Skware Hair
San Oy
Mitten


Butch Myers - Sleep Sequel B
Release Date: 3/14/1988 - Playing Time: 43min 33 sec
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Butch Myers - The Gears are my Friend (The Bears are my Fear [Don't Tell Anyone the Bear Hides Behind the Tree])
Release Date: 4/7/1988 - Playing Time: 35min 04 sec


Butch Myers - The Skies Have Ears
Release Date: April 1988 - Playing Time: 6min 22 sec
This album was abandoned before it was completed but released anyway
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Butch Myers - Amiss the Mistaken and Hidden Intrusion
Release Date: Fall 1988 - Playing Time: 59min 24 sec
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Butch Myers - A Very Sick Album Vol. I
Release Date: Fall 1988 - Playing Time: 45min 18 sec
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Butch Myers - Manipulations
Release Date: 12/20/1988 - Playing Time: 38min 50 sec
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Butch Myers - Songs for Josh
Release Date: 1989 - Playing Time: 33min 38 sec
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Butch Myers - Rolled Oats in Zimbabwe
Release Date: 1989 - Playing Time: 45min 38 sec
This is a live direct-to-tape recording of an electric guitar connected to an electronic device I invented that uses 555 timers to process the sound. Enjoy. Or not.
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Butch Myers - Alternative Music for Grandparents
Release Date: 1989 - Playing Time: approx 90min
This is a compilation. I have no copies at this time and do not know what is on it.
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Butch Myers - July 28-29
Release Date: 7/29/1989 - Playing Time: 46min 21 sec
This was an electric guitar recorded acoustically on the cheapest possible tape recorder I could find (I beleive it was a 'Realistic') on a low-budget cassette.
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Butch Myers - August 2
Release Date: 9/2/1989 - Playing Time: approx 90min
This album is MISSING. I have no copies of this album!! Please contact me if you do. This album was a continuation of July 28-29 where the electric guitar was acoustically recorded on the cheap tape and tape recorder.
Butch Myers - The Third Compilation for Mr. John Lewis
Release Date: 1989 - Playing Time: approx 90min
This album is also missing, but it was just a compilation. I don't remember what was on it other than 'Camp Snoopy'.
Butch Myers - Oatmeal for Zimbabwe
Release Date: 1989 - Playing Time: 23min 11 sec
This is my first all-keyboard album, spawned from my facination with the Korg 707 synthesizer. It used phase modulation to generate its sounds. The album was originally about 32 minutes long but my copy is mysteriously truncated, so as always, contact me if you have a copy that isn't messed up.
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