My pal Murray and I recorded this song before anyone had ever heard of a digital recording. It was done on cassette and the multitracking was accomplished by “ping ponging” tracks back and forth between two recorders…a recipe for noisy, crap-o-licious audio with lots of wow, flutter and heck, who ever heard of a mic screen, so it’s full of popping “P’s”, too.
This song was part of the Squirrel Mabry Cycle, a concept “album” with a backstory; Mr Mabry always wanted to be a big recording star, so he wrote some Christmas songs and had a friend who supposedly had connections in the recording industry. He paid big bucks to make this demo tape, and it’s pretty obvious he got ripped off. Anyway, someday perhaps the whole Cycle will emerge.
So whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukkah, Kwanza, or Winter Solstice, anyone can enjoy listening to someone else’s anguish as they get conned out of their life savings making some stupid demo tape.
That’s Murray as Squirrel, and playing guitar. I’m shining on bass, Casio, and background vocals. (yecch).
Enjoy “Heavenly Parole” by the ever awful Squirrel Mabry…
(We were going to submit this to Ron and Fez as an original Christmas song, but it’s just too long and has too many defects to seriously send it in. And it’s too long to play on Weird Medicine (at 6 minutes it’d be 1/10th of the whole show), so I’m just posting it here. If you like it, let me know!
