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November 11, 2007

Girth McDürchstein’s ‘The Return’ – Leaked!

Somebody leaked the unfinished edit of Girth McDürchstein’s ‘The Return’, and “livid” doesn’t even begin to describe my state of mind. It popped up on Tommy Janofsky’s bullshit defamation site last week, but I didn’t find out about it until just now. At first I got really mad at Tommy for releasing my unfinished shit again, but then I realized it wasn’t his fault—he didn’t leak the shit. He just posted it on a website, and in his defense, he posted it for free rather than selling it.

So now the cards are on the table. Who could have possibly stolen it? Other than the band, the only person with access to the particular stolen tape is our longtime engineer Carlos Ueberschaer, but he’d never do something so insane or stupid. I guess there’s Renal, but she’s my daughter. She’d never hurt me like that.

That leaves me with one guess: Jason Fields, the intern who went back to school on bad terms with the band. Bad enough to hold a grudge and sell illegal bootlegs? I’ll say!

How could he have gained access to the Paint Shaker so long after returning to school, you ask? Obviously he made duplicates of my keys at a time when I had more important things or people to do, then snuck in late one night to steal our tapes. He probably needed the extra money for drugs or textbooks or something.

Since the cat’s out of the bag now, I suppose I should acknowledge that yes, I had some trouble with the lyrics (though not nearly as much as Tommy insinuates). More than anything, I had trouble timing the lyrics to the music I painstakingly recorded. I had a lot to say and so little time in which to say it. I thought about making it a double album, but the deal Herc Feinstein made with our new Japanese distributor explicitly states no double albums.

You should at least check out the acoustic renditions of “Put It Where It Doesn’t Belong” and “The Love Song of Gregor Samsa.” They are as brilliant and well-crafted as anything else we’ve recorded.

Written by Girth McDürchstein on November 11, 2007 4:30 PM
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