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For what it's worth ... looks like a rip-off of the VUAS tape hit the UK in the early nineties (but the text and titles didn't all survive).

Cam, have you included Moe's dislike of bootleggers in your documentary? It's reported in The Bob magazine from 1994 which can be seen if you download the "Phase 14" pdf from this link and read your way to the foot of page 3. Sadly, the pdf is non-searchable. https://c.mail.com/@652099718028993115/k...

Lou's homage to European minstrelsy and broadside ballads. Most wonderful indeed.

Thanks Phil, it's just that the song mentions the name. Mind you, and I've only read a summary, that Hop Frog story sure is grotesque.

I don't mean to be irreverent or disrespectful, but I can't help wondering if AM inspired Lou-the-joker to write Ferryboat Bill.

Any thoughts anyone?

Interesting - didn't know that Kill Yr Sons dated back to the first LP demos It may date back further. I can't remember where I first heard that it was a lost VU song, but it may well have been on the old "yellow" VU forum. According to some posts on this current forum, Sal Mercuri posted on the ye...

With "Story" credits to Cale Tucker & Morrison - is that legit?

simonm wrote: ↑

09 Apr 2021 08:40

nothing is new

No, but it sure is weird ...

Although with Lou's extensive knowledge of the world around him, he would have known about the practice of sending children by US parcel post in the 1910s. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180959372/

This looks like the counterpart to the story I posted on the General Discussion page years ago.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=145289

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31700049

Both stories feature crates, two bottles and being turned upside down. It's all a bit hard to believe.