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TWO HEADED BASTARD
TWO HEADED BASTARD
What happened to the Two-Headed Bastard?
Forgotten for what, 30 years? A two=headed
Bastard doesn’t just disappear, however. What
Brought the Two-Headed Bastard back was a
Body of evidence that could not be denied—
Nothing less than the soundboard files from the
Court Tavern in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
Where my concert appearances were frequent,
1989=1992. There turned out to be mentions of
The Two-Headed Bastard in the stage patter.
Inspired by a double exposure photograph created
By Michael Macioce, it was to be a collection of
rather provocative songs exploring current
politics and social melodrama, much of the material
coming from actual nightmares.
What happened to the Two-Headed Bastard?
Forgotten for what, 30 years? A two=headed
Bastard doesn’t just disappear, however. What
Brought the Two-Headed Bastard back was a
Body of evidence that could not be denied—
Nothing less than the soundboard files from the
Court Tavern in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
Where my concert appearances were frequent,
1989=1992. There turned out to be mentions of
The Two-Headed Bastard in the stage patter.
Inspired by a double exposure photograph created
By Michael Macioce, it was to be a collection of
rather provocative songs exploring current
politics and social melodrama, much of the material
coming from actual nightmares.
Once set in motion by the Court tapes, I looked into
the rare cassette entitled Two-Headed Bastard On
the Way, part of a series in which I would assemble
demo versions of ongoing projects. From this and
onstage comments I came up with a pretty complete
track list for the Two Headed Bastard, other than a
couple of titles that wound up being recorded well and
heard widely elsewhere, this is it. EUGENE CHADBOURNE
family visits
I’m not you
When you dream about bleeding
They cut off mama’s arm
The old piano (first version
Carve Vietnam off his tombstone
I cut the wrong man
The high safeway
The people with too much
The man who made off with the money
Screw a corpse with a naked dick
Bunyan
Our neighborhood
So cold in Vietnam
The earth is broken
Cocaine for children