D. Boon and Friends

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D. Boon and Friends
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Compilation album by
D. Boon
ReleasedAugust 5, 2003
RecordedApril 1984 – May 1985
Genre Alternative rock
Length61:25
Label Box-O-Plenty
Producer Richard Derrick, Crane

D. Boon and Friends is a compilation album of home recordings featuring American musician D Boon, of the band Minutemen. [1] The album is the inaugural release of the Hermosa Beach, California-based label Box-O-Plenty Records, started by Boon's one-time roommate Richard Derrick. [2] Most of the tracks are living-room jam sessions (on guitars, bass and cheap keyboards) done by Boon, Derrick, and Crane, [3] who had previously contributed backing vocals and trumpet parts to Minutemen's Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat and Project: Mersh EP's.

Contents

Also heard on the album are live recordings of a one-time project band featuring Boon and three percussionists under the band name Hammerdown, a rare D. Boon acoustic solo show, a tape of a Minutemen gig with Derrick substituting for drummer George Hurley (who couldn't get time off work to participate in the show), and an experimental demo recording featuring D. Boon overdubbing three different lead guitar parts over a rhythm guitar track. [1]

The cover art of D. Boon And Friends is derived from a Christmas card Boon had given Derrick in 1984. [3]

Mike Watt, as curator of the Minutemen legacy, gave the project his blessing, as did D. Boon's father. Watt, Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom, Crane, and Richard Derrick all contributed liner notes. [3]

In keeping with a Minutemen crediting tradition, Boon and many of the other participants are credited with "singing" instead of "vocals."

The first pressing of the CD had a purple cover. Current pressings have the front cover printed with an off-yellow background. Customers who order the CD directly from the label also receive a bonus 23-minute CD-R of other Boon/Crane/Derrick jam sessions and solo live tracks that didn't fit into the original track sequence.

Recording details

All of the songs were recorded on compact audio cassette using a boombox's condensor microphones, except for tracks 3, 8, and 15 which were recorded on stereo open reel and track 33 which was recorded on four-track open reel. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Everyone Was There" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  2. "Fifth Gear" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  3. "Deadline" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  4. "The Waiting Stage" (Derrick)
  5. "Indecision" (Boon, Derrick)
  6. "Theme From Empty Box" (Brian Wells)
  7. "The Long Road Home" (Boon, Derrick)
  8. "Take You There" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  9. "Freedom Forever" (Boon)
  10. "Jam #6" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  11. "Binky's Round"-Up (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  12. "Too Much Fun" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  13. "All Over the Place" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  14. "The Viking Song" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  15. "Just Around the Corner" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  16. "As Long As" (Parts 1 & 2) (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  17. "Hammerdown I" (Boon, Holzman, Tambourvich, Vandenberg)
  18. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie)
  19. "Hammerdown II" (Boon, Holzman, Tambourvich, Vandenberg)
  20. "Our New Industrial Direction" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  21. "That's All There Is" (Boon, Crane, Derrick)
  22. "My Part" (Boon)
  23. "Don't Look Now" (John Fogerty)
  24. "Plight" (Boon, Watt)
  25. "Corona" (Boon)
  26. "But First..." (Boon, Watt, Derrick)
  27. "I Felt Like a Gringo" (Watt)
  28. "God Bows to Math" (Watt)
  29. "Themselves" (Watt)
  30. "Self-Referenced" (Watt)
  31. "#1 Hit Song" (Boon, Hurley)
  32. "History Lesson" – Part II (Watt)
  33. "Many as One" (Boon)

Personnel

Production

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