Did you ever meet Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame), who ran the label at that time?
We had met Penn a couple years before he was involved with the 50 Skidillion label. He was a friend of another friend of ours. He had written to us when we had only released our first little 7-inch record. We spent time with him in Maryland and stayed at his house when [Half Japanese] played in L.A. As far as the reissue, why was it important to have other artists—R. Stevie Moore, Lurch & Holler, and others—record the entire album, instead of just a song or two? I always loved the album. It came out at a time when 50 Skidillion was about to go out of business, so it didn’t get heard the way it should have. I think that it’s a really great album. After seven years, when the rights reverted back to me, I shopped it around a little bit and never really found a deal for re-issuing it until I found Thick Syrup. They are great to work with. I have done a few projects with them. They said that they’d like to do it. I suggested that it would be pretty cool to have other bands cover the whole a
