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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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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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
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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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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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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