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After Rodney heard "So Long Seventies" he approached Joe while waiting for the bus one day after school and asked if he could join the Dead Milkmen. "What instrument do you play?" asked Joe (or so the story goes). "Banjo," was Rodney's reply. "Sure! We could really use a banjo player." So Rodney showed up at Joe's for the next Dead Milkmen "recording session" and was welcomed into the band as "Jake Jiles", a sort-of punk rock country bumpkin. Most of this album was recorded in just that one fateful session. Rodney had nothing written ahead of time, at least not on paper, but managed to improvise several verses of a song he called "Comatose Blues" while playing a very badly tuned banjo. Another schoolmate who heard the first tape showed up for this session as well, a Mr. Andrew T.
Andrew played the part of an annoying radio dj who insisted on nabbing an interview with the reluctant and snotty band. Joe's siblings are absent from this recording as is David. "The Pope" Garth "O'neil" had a large role on this tape, co-writing a number of the songs. Nothing sounds very much in tune, including the frequent extremely tasteless harmonica blowing of Jack's. Believe it or not this tape is even harder to sit through than "So Long Seventies."