Chatting Up Little Fyodor - interview by Jeph Jerman

5/6/2018

This interview with Little Fyodor conducted by Jeph Jerman was originally published in the fourth issue of Electronic Cottage, July 1990.

Here are four cassettes from my personal Little Fyodor collection.
Slither/Sloth cassette originally issued by WoG and Sound Of Pig.
Beneath The Uber-Putz and
Idiots Are Closer To God
both originally issued on vinyl record albums.
KGNU Kabaret, originally issued by Harsh Reality Music and later by Little Fyodor himself.

Slither/Sloth, Beneath The Uber-Putz and Idiots Are Closer To God are available
for sale on CDR at Little Fyodor's website

10 Comments

Chris Phinney

5/6/2018 09:11:51

A wonderful read from the past! Love it! I still have those masters KGNU Cabaret & Choirboys from Jupiter.

Little Fyodor

5/6/2018 14:09:03

Wow -- thank you, glad you like!!

C. Goff III link

5/6/2018 15:04:00

Thanks for bringing this back for re-examination. As with Bret Hart in the other recent "legacy" post, I had had no direct interactions Sir Fyodor or Babushka when this was originally published. Now together we have created many memories that fit quite comfortably in my braincells. I am very interested in listening to any recordings of "The Miracle." Can anybody direct me to a place where I might hear such things today?

Hal McGee

5/6/2018 15:13:08

There is an entire page in the WoG Archive on my site dedicated to The Miracle, and that page includes numerous audio players.

http://www.haltapes.com/wog-0026-29-walls-of-genius-and-miracle.html

These might not be the most ideal listening conditions, depending on one's tolerance for listening to MP3s and one's connection speed - the MP3s are 320 kbps, which may be too hefty for some Internet connections to handle.

C. Goff III link

5/6/2018 16:38:13

Perfecto! I just listened to WOG/Miracle Volume I while reading the entire Halzine 12 Tape Art mag. What a nice way to spend a lovely Sunday afternoon... These two went together just like arteries and veins -- bloody great!

Side note... Fyodor's yellow notepad page at the link you provided here is eerily familiar to the notes I used to make about Taped Rugs reels, right down to the multi-colored ink. The DNA of improvisors is spread wide on this earth, doncha think brothers and sisters?

Little Fyodor

5/6/2018 20:07:11

Brothers of different mothers, dude! (and sisters too where applicable, even if not as rhymable!)

Hal McGee

5/7/2018 00:52:25

There's a Dan Fogelberg joke here...

C. Goff III

5/7/2018 14:00:25

Of course, that Lion Of Experimental Improv -- Dan Fogelberg -- is well-known for how he documented the contents of his tapes on white typing paper in pencil, following the well trodden paths of James Taylor and Gordon Lightfoot.

Hal McGee

5/7/2018 14:08:33

Not only that, but there's this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Sons_of_Different_Mothers

C. Goff III

5/7/2018 16:50:36

Ha! I saw Weisberg open a show at the Berkeley Community Theater back around 1979 or so... So-so of a show from what I recall, but not altogether uninteresting. Now, if these two guys had done a "Triplets" album with Arnold Schoenberg, I think that would likely hold my attention for a while.