Credits
Before it was season to enter the salt flats, we recorded Toy Pop Dragsters
between May 1999 (Ode to Gary Gabelich) and August 2000 (some overdubs
and vocal tracks) at Ballyhoo Valley, only 8-track by Dan, mostly during our thursday
evening sessions. The songs were mixed and mastered at Ballyhoo Valley also in
July/August 2000.
Your drivers are Dan and Deke now, playing guitars (just electric guitars on this record, yeah!), bass, roland sh 2000, jx-3p & jupiter 4, philicorda, bontempi, drum computers and the scratching machine. We are pleased to introduce you to the current Logan Crew, namely Debbie Logan on some vocal tracks and Limbo played guitar on Pop's Pumpkin Patch.
Do not forget Kitty O'Neil and Kevin Williamson Speed Attack.
Pets, Pop Railroad, Teenie Boppers, Sarah Rizzo Superstar, Star, Puppy Fly, Moontower, Girlfriend 23, Speedgirl and Pasadena Hardware Store have already been released on the two Music for Pet Lovers samplers for our Popfest 1999, but mostly in different versions and mix-ups.
A bunch of samples kinda accelerated our performance. Hence we give credit to Steffi D. Logan, Johnny F., Katie H., RZA., Britney and Pete S., the lousy Wonder Woman movie without Lydia Carter, ...and various TV stuff.
Nonetheless all songs and sets of words by the Logan Bros., except R.Z.A. where we sort of covered our Wu Tang Clan brothers.
Thank you's in no particular order this time: Limbo (for his help on Pop's Pumpkin Patch), Christine (for having been Debbie), Niko (especially for convincing Debbie to sing for us) and Michi (for being Debbie). The nice idea for the band photo is borrowed from a picture on the Sarge homepage.
Notes
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'You'd better look over your
shoulders' (The Blood Oranges) A lot of things have happened over the last year and this is what a record usually contains. What to say about the current album, which is probably in your CD player right now? Practically, due to breaks and unfortunate circumstances it took us a while to write, record and finish the songs, but from a theoretical point of view, we additionally needed to provide some context: Miss Welder turned out a bit vague and a little transition with an overdose of experimentation and stuff... we tried to get along with different influences. After having reached Howard Hughes two years ago, now we somehow are where we wanted to be... at least for the moment. |
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'Met her at the Great Salt
Lake' Well, you all know Gary Gabelich (r.i.p.), but how about Kitty O'Neil? She's the stunt girl for Wonder Woman (Lydia Carter of course), a real Speedgirl indeed. We again idolize girls... more than ever and you'll find plenty of them in the lines. But we had to find a place somewhere between Kitty and Gary. To our own surprise the gap is pretty wide... wide as TV shows on Saturday afternoons and suddenly by the end of March 2000 everything made sense. We sort of broke the land speed record on the salt flats of Bonneville surrounded by Ultraviolet light. |
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'...I just wanna rollerskate'
(Angie Heaton) OK, now in chronological order: Dan came up with the phrase 'Toy Pop' sometime in the late 1999, but we got into this dragsters stuff later. Everything started by getting even with soapy TV show aesthetics, but fortunately we found new friends later and refound others. Some of them drive vans named 'Hero', some wear 'West of Rome'-Ts... we wear them too. Yeah! They turned out to be very important since they legitimated the whole thing... if there was a need to do so and we definitely thought there was. Now all the ideology makes sense again. We included our singer Debbie to put an end to the boy group cliché. We played live as a duo a couple of times although we never had a strong intention to do so. It turned out not bad. So some premises changed... but only temporarily. And in the end we read 'The Walden' and the ridiculous 'Shampoo Planet' simultaneously. So what does Toy Pop Dragsters mean for you? |
Hey, this pop record is available on CD only. Sadly you will never hear our messages recorded backwards. Hail! See you in Wendover...
August 2000
Dan & Deke
...songs by the Logan Bros. (words
too)
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