Author: director

  • Hoover’s G-String – Gargle CD

    Hoover’s G-String – Gargle CD

    Archive #2060 See Hoover’s G-String Exhibit I have a feeling this band could make a real solid album in the near future. “Gargle” has most of elements squarely on-target, complete with great hooks and guitars. Think garage band with something much more in mind and you’ll have the idea. Bryan Baker, GAJOOB Online

  • Hoover’s G-String

    Hoover’s G-String

    Hoover’s G-String was an Arlington, Virginia garage band active from 1996 to around 2004. GAJOOB received their debut cassette and a quick follow-up called New Red Demo. Two years later came their first CD, Gargle.

  • Tom Furgas – OneOfAKind Disc 17 February 2007

    Tom Furgas – OneOfAKind Disc 17 February 2007

    Archive Item #5073 The main purpose of doing those was not to limit access to the music, but to make a unique recording that I wouldn’t have to mass produce. Or rather, mass production to the extent that I am able to do it. I think of those as akin to unique artworks rather than,…

  • Tom Furgas

    Tom Furgas

    P00474 Tom Furgas’ 1986 Courtesy Patrol cassette with Bill Lehman called Razor Clocks was one of my earliest exposures to cassette culture and resonated with my own style of music most among the first tapes I ordered. Tom was the first cassette culture artist I interviewed.

  • Lemon Magazine #9

    Lemon Magazine #9

    Item #5072 Hard Ons, Ed Kuepper, Vanilla Chainsaws, Headstones, Rowland Howard, Bam Balams, Macho Clowns, Peyote, These Future Kings, Killjoys.

  • Lemon Magazine

    Lemon Magazine

    Exhibit #00606 Lemon Magazine was an Australian underground music magazine by Louise Lemon of Glebe, outside of Sydney. Lemon and Louise came to GAJOOB via Cameron Craig whose Brain Pain Sampler cassettes were filled with choice underground Aussie bands. Cameron and Louise made a stop in Salt Lake while taking Amtrack through the states while…

  • Robin James Letter With Interview Questions For GAJOOB November 10, 1989

    Bryan Here are some questions I have devised for you regarding our interview. These are questions from me for you to answer on tape. ABOUT YOU How did GAJOOB get started? What did you find int he way of models for how GAJOOB should be when your were starting? How much mail do you get?…

  • Cassette Mythos Database Listing Project 1990

    Cassette Mythos Database Listing Project 1990

  • Robin James to GAJOOB (Postcard) 89 10/24

    Robin James to GAJOOB (Postcard) 89 10/24

    Dear Bryan I just got GAJOOB – will be digesting it slowly. Looks excellent — good job! RE interview of me (shucks) Heck Yeah! Only if I get one of you and I suggest we work by mail — write questions for each other – SWAP – then answer them on tape, SWAP, then write…

  • Cassette Mythos

    Cassette Mythos

    Robin James was instrumental in cassette culture’s formative years. His reviews in the Castanets column in OP Magazine focused on cassettes and was a hub in the development of the artist network that grew around it, establishing a place people around the world who were making recordings apart from any kind of music industry could…