On the night of October 31st, 2009 our friend J.M.W. (guitar shredder, culinary gourmand, skateboard aficianado, student of Gurdjieff) took a misjudged step from the roof of a three-story San Francisco Edwardian and tumbled to the narrow, dark alleyway below. His mere survival is nothing short of freakish and miraculous luck; coming out of this long of a plummit with a fractured skull, shattered wrist, broken vertabrae, internal bleeding, etc. is a minor compared to what the damages could have been. After battling through a scary and intense month-long stretch in the I.C.U. at SFGH, and another long and depressing stretch in a rehab facility for stroke victims, elderly invalids and those severely down on their luck, J.M.W. is now on the mends. Life is looking like it will continue in a more-or-less normal fashion, not too far off from his life four months earlier. Now with several medications, an occasional cane and a slightly modified diet, life goes on.
Fortunately, San Francisco is the place to be if you're going to have a major medical trauma. Had J.M.W. fallen three stories to the pavement in, say, Omaha or Dallas or Bellingham or Fort Lauderdale or Greensboro or anywhere else in the US of A, the resulting medical bills could have easily bankrupted a semi-bohemian line-cook. The city of SF has an extremely generous (almost free) health care plan for those living under the median income bracket, which is saying something in this high-rent place. It's essentially insurance for the uninsured. J.M.W. has benefited from this greatly but there are still many a cost to recoup. Not able to work for the forseeable future and with scant savings in his name, J.M.W. needs a hand.
The seed for this LP came one night when we were sitting next to our friend in his drug-addled stupor in the hospital. None of our friends have any real money to give. We don't have any patrons. We don't have secretly deep pockets. Yet through touring and various subcurrent networks, we do know a lot of outer-realm musicians of different stripes. Could that in itself maybe help us raise some funds? The offer was extended to many folks and most were eager to contribute to the cause, even though some had only met J.M.W. in passing. This thematic LP is the resulting project. All proceeds go into J.M.W.'s rehabilitation and to help get him back on his feet.
SIDE A
1) Julian Lynch - Sedan Delivery
2) Metal Rouge - Helpless
3) Sam Goldberg - Transformer Man
4) Swanox - Thrasher
5) Sun Araw - Barstool Blues
SIDE B
1) Stag Hare - Cortez the Killer
2) Laurentide Ice Sheet - Southern Man
3) Trevor Healy - Round and Round
4) Avocet - Expecting to Fly
5) Matt Mondanile - Look Out For My Love
Edition of 300.
Silkscreened covers.
$15 ppd in the USA.
Contact seminatapes {{at}} gmail {{dot}} com for availability or foreign orders.
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