Month: November 2020

Sheep Fiends – Looking Back

Album #: 76 Recording Dates: 06/12/2010 Release Date: 2010 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This one has a perfect album title. A very nostalgic jam finds me revealing my activities during Gerald Ford’s inauguration; followed by rage about my stolen backyard and the totality of my past. Meanwhile the weird atmospheric epic “Eyes Wide Like Saucers” recounts a frightening event in …

Sheep Fiends – American Sweetheart

Album #: 75 Recording Dates: 01/23/2010 Release Date: 2010 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This is a pretty strong jam CD from 2010. We’d grown comfortable with the Rumpus Room studio and felt free to create without stress. Several dirges anchor this heavy record while the topics of outer space isolation, obsessive collecting, the American Dream and nightmares of spiders unfold …

Scratchrock Volume XV

Album #: 74 Recording Dates: 2005-2009 Release Date: 2010 Catalog: SMR31 ScratchNotes: These 15 tracks come from just seven jams that I attended between 2005 and 2009 – six Sheep Fiends events and one guest appearance with the Poker Night String Band. The most notable musical development that occurred during this period was the evolution of the Rumpus Room …

Sheep Fiends – Fission Overlord

Album #: 73 Recording Dates: 2009 Release Date: 2010 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This album primarily captures a freaky weird Sheep Fiends jam from October 2009. Hillbilly adjacent cover songs mesh with menacing instrumentals. Haunting laughter and oddly wrong pop songs. A strong start for a new decade of Sheep Fiends. Three Track Sampler Track 04 – Dread Reaper (Sheep Fiends) – Sounds …