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Here's something from the vault that's suitable for Halloween time!
Back in 1998 (or was it 99?) I did a tape-swap with a fella who called his act "Earwig Spectre". This is a parody/tribute I did on one of my early albums which is pretty close to his style: The piano, the hard pan with piano on left & vocal on right, the demented cackling, the demonic pitch shift, and the gore/horror themes are all inspired by the original. I sent him a copy of the album (complete with me and Philo commenting over the music) and he wrote back that he really liked it.
The track starts with a weird burst of music which was the tail-end of the previous song. I mixed the album radio dj style with songs slightly overlapping each other. No, I don't have that previous song. Only a few of them survived the transition from tape to digital.
Any contact info I had for Earwig Spectre would be 20 years out-of-date, even if I could find it. "Mr. Boyden in Indiana" is definitely a reference to him. Maybe he's still around on the internet. I'm sort of afraid to look...