Girls On Fire 1983 cassette Confessions Of A Shit Addict

6/26/2018

Confessions Of A Shit Addict
GOF 004
Girls On Fire label, 1983
Sadistic Gossip / Mary Davis Kills Mary Davis Kills

HalTapes proudly presents this archival reissue of this cassette classic
at the Cassette Art Classics site at Bandcamp
authorized and approved by Leslie Singer of Girls On Fire, June 2018.
Hal McGee is currently conducting an in-depth interview with Leslie Singer which will be published at Electronic Cottage later this Summer.

Sadistic Gossip —
Dead Poets Don't Shave Their Heads
Camus' Car Crash
My Calvins
Fassbinder Had A Good Set Designer
All Songs © 1983 L. Singer

Mary Davis Kills Mary Davis Kills —
Live At Ollie's In Oakland, CA On 7/22/83.
Clara Lusardi On 2nd Guitar.

GOF, Leslie Singer, San Francisco, CA, USA

The audio is a transcription of Hal McGee's copy of the cassette that he received from Leslie Singer in 1984. McGee's copy of Confessions Of A Shit Addict was dubbed onto one side of a 60-minute Normal Bias Maxell cassette, with the second side left blank and labeled "Audience Participation Side". The audio itself is about 32 minutes, and it is presented here in one continuous 32-minute program, just like it is on McGee's copy. Some copies produced by Singer were dubbed onto 30-minute cassettes withe the program split onto the two sides of tape.

review of Confessions Of A Shit Addict by Hal McGee in HalZine 12

4 Comments

Electronic Cottage
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Hal McGee

I have been making my own homemade experimental music since 1981.

I was an active participant in the 1980s Cassette Culture scene, and I operated the Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Service and label, and recorded solo as Dog As Master, and in a duo as Viscera.

From 1989 to 1991 I published six issues of the original Electronic Cottage print magazine.

In the last 40 years I have recorded, produced and released more than 300 solo audio works, collaborations and compilations.

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Little Fyodor

6/26/2018 10:33:55

Good ol' Leslie Singer!

C. Goff III

6/27/2018 00:40:03

This tape bears repeated listening to properly absorb its unique elements, of which there are many. Methinks also that some of the latter portion of this tape served as a direct inspiration to our editor's recent acoustic guitar performance at Apartment Music 29 ("this song is called...").

Historical reference... Ollie's Radcliffe Hall was located about two blocks from Taped Rugs Productions on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, and was also the venue at which -ING (Goff/Schaer) had its debut performance in January of 1983.

Hal McGee

6/27/2018 00:58:12

You are absolutely right that my performance at Apartment Music 29 was directly inspired by the Mary Davis Kills Mary Davis Kills section of Confessions Of A Shit Addict.

7/5/2018 11:16:20

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