http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A87KL4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpgfrom the thrill jockey website:
Description:This band has no members. No memberships is loud anymore. It is mostly a place to get things fixed. Sometimes such things are dinged but deemed durable. If it is not broke it won’t get fixed. It is mostly hot here. We promise we will get right to it sooner or later. We offer up quadruple A protection and services. If you are a stickler, you can count on AAAA.
You are listening to QUAD ‘A’ sound.
ARIZONA AMP AND ALTERNATOR is Howe Gelb and friends keeping themselves busy in the desert (actually Denmark and Modesto mostly, with a little Tucson thrown in for good measure). Howe is a mind-bogglingly prolific songwriter, and he’s joined here by a star-studded collection of co-conspirators – M.Ward, the boys from Grandaddy, Scout Niblett, Danish chanteuse Marie Frank, and Jeremy Gara (Arcade Fire).
we’ll put a clamp on your old fret we’ll recharge the battery in your tremulator we’ll tune up your rusty machine head we’ll get right to it sooner or later
if you all feel mostly misunderstood through it all you know it’s too good to just nix it well… if it ain't broke don’t fix it
do you alternate somewhere in between with the best old sound anyone has seen ? then that is your country. that is our zone.
― gear (gear), Monday, 19 September 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)
that's a cool cover. the font looks like it belongs on an energy drink though. :-(
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 September 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)
i remember when all these dumbass critics were theorizing that the silhouette of howe playing golf on the
cover magazine sleeve meant that he was retiring.
― gear (gear), Monday, 19 September 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)
three years pass...
This was a totally underrated Gelb project. Maybe his best outside of Giant Sand.
― Jim, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)