Fluting on the Hump

...Fly Religion) was born. In 1987 , the band went to the Noise New York studio and in just ten hours recorded and mixed its debut album, Fluting on the Hump. The producer /engineer , Kramer , released the album on his then-fledgling label ,...

In this article: King Missile, John S. Hall, Dogbowl, Shimmy Disc, Steve Dansiger, Charles Curtis, Bradford Reed, Atlantic, and Mystical Shit

"Take Stuff from Work" is a song by avant-garde band King Missile. It appears on the band's 1987 debut album Fluting on the Hump. In "Take Stuff from Work," a jangly acoustic guitar and simple drumbeat are punctuated by occasional...

In this article: Take Stuff from Work, John S. Hall, Mystical Shit & Fluting on the Hump, Life is Good, and King Missile

In "Jesus Was Way Cool," frontman John S. Hall, over a simple piano figure , delivers a deadpan monologue in which he declares Jesus "way cool " for such skills as healing , walking on water, and turning water into wine . Hall states that...

In this article: John S. Hall, Jesus Was Way Cool, Atlantic Records, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Mystical Shit & Fluting on the Hump, Wayne Gretzky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jimi Hendrix, and Mystical Shit

In "No Point," a psychedelic rock track with prominent lead guitar, frontman John S. Hall sings a list of states and activities to which "there is no point ." The list includes answering the telephone, opening the mail, using drugs , not...

In this article: No Point, John S. Hall, Mystical Shit & Fluting on the Hump, and King Missile

John S. Hall (born John Charles Hall September 2, 1960) is an American poet, author, singer , and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate...

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