DISCLAIMER

The Rand and Adam Tape (aka. Poor Man's Copyright) & Sucking Out Loud: Ookla the Mok Live at Windycon 25

The Rand and Adam Tape is now available on CD. All sixteen tracks of Ookla's primordial soup. Some of these songs were rerecorded and eventually found a home on Ookla two previously released CDs. Others will eventually be rerecorded and released on future Ookla projects. But we're pretty sure that at least six of these baby's will never see the light of day again. For those of you who don't know, in 1992, Adam and I made a tape of the sixteen songs we had written that year. When I say we made a tape, I mean we hit record and starting strumming. No studio. No tracking. Just two microphones, two pickups, and a radio shack spring reverb unit. The quality of this recording is what we musicians call bad, but I have it on good authority that the recording is "charming." 

The track listing on The Rand and Adam Tape is:

Still Can't Buy Me Love
Gorilla (gorilla)
Tandem Bike
Murder She Wrote
View Master
Cool
Math
Just Another Cliche
Renoir Song
Rats Live On nO eviL staR
Three Monkeys
Jeff's Corner
Stranger in the Mirror
Lemon Oh's Song
Baby's Head
Private I

The live Ookla CD is called Sucking Out Loud: Ookla the Mok Live at Windycon 25. More than just a mere live recording, it's a full Ookla show, beginning to end (we didn't remove the obnoxious Ookla banter). And most importantly, it was one of the last shows we did with Luis, captured on tape for all eternity! The show was performed on November 14, 1998 at Windycon in Chicago. While the show was recorded to ADAT off the board, we had no intention of releasing this recording commercially, so it should be understood that the sound is less than optimal. It's obvious on the first track that we're getting our bearings sonically, but it gets better I promise you. Ironically, the sound issues resulted primarily in a low guitar sound, which I'm sure will make some of you consider this the best mixed Ookla album ever! (Which is another way of saying that you can hear every word.)

The track listing for Sucking Out Loud is:

Super Powers
Tommy
Arthur Curry
Math
This Song
Rishathra
Theme From Super Skrull
Stop Talking About Comic Books or I'll Kill You
Bride of Wolfman
My Secret Origin
Number One
Das Uber Tuber
View Master
and an extra special bonus track!

Now, Disclaimer Boy takes over the keyboard...

WARNING: These two cds will be burned and not pressed. That means that they will be individually manufactured on a disc burner and not factory pressed like our other albums. Some older CD players have trouble playing burned CDs. If your CD player refuses to play these CDs, feel free to return them to us and we will cheerfully refund your money.

FURTHER WARNING: To reiterate, these recordings are not up to the professional standard of Less Than Art and Super Secret. This is why they're only available through our fan page. We don't imagine that anyone would want access to these if they weren't already our fans, and frankly, we'd rather have potential new fans starting with our "official" recordings.

FINAL WARNING: The packaging on these CDs is photocopied. (But they're photocopies of great Adam artwork and witty liner notes!)