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On one hand, it’s just “another minor key jam”, but the combination of Ed Fowler’s effects with the Echoplex and my (Evan) threatening bass lines made it work. It ends with me playing “Red River Valley” on the harmonica, which was one of about seven songs I knew how to play on the harmonica in those days. That explains why the song got called, after the fact, “The Massacre”. It was such a mournful version of “Red River Valley”, that it conjured up the tragic experience of Native Americans. I was really interested in Native American history at the time, too. I loved the western landscape so much, was so obsessed by mountains and canyons and desert, that I wanted to figure out how the original inhabitants viewed it. Of course it was a sacred landscape to them. This track was one of the earliest recorded pieces by the folks who later became Walls of Genius and was on the never-released cassette now known as the Dirt Clods tape. It eventually appeared on the late-1983 cassette release "The WoG Sampler", credited to the faux-group Jerry's Kids, a reference to Jerry Lewis, not Jerry Garcia.

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from Raw Sewage, Vol. 1 (1983), released March 1, 1983
composition: Cantor, Fowler
Evan Cantor: bass, harmonica
Ed Fowler: electric guitar

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Walls Of Genius

Fried psychedelia, relentless experimentation, hunter-gatherer improv, space rock doom, heavy rock monumentalism and daffy cover tunes. Walls of Genius rips holes in the fabric of space and time, kicks you in the ass and leaves you smiling. 80s stalwarts of the cassette culture, they're back in the 21st century. The most unique band that ever was. Really! ... more

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