Here is something i always wondered if i woud ever have the chance to hear it. The most desired item possibly for every Psychick TV/Throbbing Gristle/Genesis P. Orridge fan!This is the legendary one copy acetate, Gen has released in 1968 and since then ,he was the only one to have a copy.Early Worm was a project he formatted with some igh school friends , who were rehearsing at Gen's house attic. Improvised music based mostly on Gens inspiration after reading some essays of John Cage.It was pressed on Deroy sound label, known for pressing records with speeches of Adolf Hitler and Ian Brady(one of the Moors Murderers).
"“EARLY WORM” was pressed at Deroy Sound Services in November 1968 even though the actual single acetate copy has “copyright 1969” written by hand on the centre label. I was away at Hull University when it arrived at my home at 6 Links Drive, Solihull, Warks. So I took it back to Hull in the new year. I hand wrote the cover quotes from “SILENCE” by John Cage. It was recorded in the roofspace attic of the house during 1968 Summer and on a weekend trip home with Jesus Joheero (Joheero pronounced - Yo’ hero, i.e. Your Hero). The sleeve notes were hand written on typing paper. Xerox enclosed.Gnaire Gill was Pinglewad’s girlfriend.Joheero & Dr. Moses Tea are nicknames I gave John Shapeero.Spiderman is Ian Evetts.Jangel is my nickname for Jane Ray, my girlfriend at the time.RFM is my father, Ronald Frederick Megson.Pinglewad is my nickname for Peter Winstanley. Pinglewad is also the name of a homemade, banjo-like instrument I built that sounded uncannily like a sitar, using a shallow biscuit tin and banjo strings, with drilled nails for machine heads and a plastic shopping bag as the “skin”.The original tape still exists, as does a tape of the follow-up album that was called “CATCHING THE BIRD” and was the same people, but including the addition of Dr. Timothy Poston. However, it being old, cheap, analogue tape the oxide is probably very fragile as on other tapes from this and earlier periods. Transfer to a new master for preservation would have to be very carefully supervised as it would probably only go through the tape heads once before disintegrating. "
From http://www.genesisp-orridge.com/index.php?section=article&album_id=34&id=30&print=1
A second LP ,named "Catching the bird" is rumoured to have been recorded in reel to reel only.Hope Dais label,that in collaboration with Gen released this gem in limited 500 copies edition (already sold out), will release this too. Unfortuately i didn't realise this reissue when it came out,but thanks to a friend of mine, i own a copy now,as he knew how much i wanted it and send me a copy as a present a few days ago. I know it as been posted recently elsewhere in the blogosphere but i could not resist posting it here.
get this mega masterpiece
hereSince Dais contacted me and informed me that this is still available through FUSETRON ,srry guys i had to remove the link.
