»In which we get wiped out
It's almost too much: I walked into Jerry's Fine Used Records last weekend, and the very first record I saw was a copy of Number One Cup's Possum Trot Plan. Hotcha! Then I flipped through a few more bins (Good Stuff! Good Stuff Overflow! Rare Good Stuff! Weird Stuff!) and found a 12" of the Fat Boys collaboration (and I use the term loosely) with the Beach Boys. Imagine the dulcet harmonies of the Beach Boys overlaid with the big-bad-wolf sound of the Fat Boys beatboxing, and layer on some guitar, and then add in a Latin Rascals remix (!!), and you have this particular slice o' vinyl.
Jerry's has no web site, and maintains no catalogue. All of the inventory is scattered physically and mentally amongst the various rooms and curators at the shop, in the former Leslie Dresbold Office Supplies building on Murray Avenue. Jerry Weber, who has run the shop for at least as long as I have been buying records (I walked past the shop every day on my way home from summer jobs my fifteenth through seventeenth years, and this led to a substantial expansion in my record collection) recently tried to sell the shop, but found no takers. He then formed the Squirrel Hill Co-Op, which will add video and CDs to the space currently overflowing with vinyl (a half-million 45s!). I was pretty happy to stumble in during the 33 1/3% off sale, so I picked up an armload of excellent stuff (yes, the Fat Boys, but also a nice Aisler's Set 12" single and a copy of David Thomas & The Wooden Birds' Blame The Messenger — of which I have at least one other copy, on the David Thomas CD anthology — and a couple of weirdie-but-goodies) for about fifty bucks. And the seven-inch big-hole of Jimmy Cliff and Elvis Costello singing "Seven-Day Weekend", which later turned up on the Blood & Chocolate 2xCD. It's a sweet song, and Cliff's vocals add a certain mellowness to the plaintive lyrics.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that Dweezil Zappa plays the guitar bits on the Fat + Beach Boys rekkid. Weird and weirder. I have, or had, a seven-inch of this same song, somewhere.
