Davnejsie som tu spominal, ze album All Lights Fucked Up on the Hairy Amp Drooling od GY!BE je na internete fake.

Prave som cital interview s Efrimom. Bolo to interview o A Silver Mt. Zion, ale prisla rec na vsetko mozne, aj na GY!BE a clovek, co sa pytal otazky spomenul aj toto (uvodzovky - hovori Efrim):

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Although I had told myself I wouldn’t spend too much time asking about a band that has been on hiatus for around seven years, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to ask about something that I have wanted to know more about for so many years. The ‘All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling’ cassette tape was the first recording to bear the name ‘Godspeed You Black Emperor!’ in 1994, and only 33 copies of the tape were ever made.





Not a great deal is known about the tape, but I once heard a (probably completely unsubstantiated) rumour that it sounded like Black Flag, so I ask if this is true.
“No, it doesn’t sound like Black Flag!” replies Efrim, seemingly a little surprised at the suggestion. So what does it sound like?

“I don’t know man, I haven’t listened to it in a long time. There’s not much to say about it, it was recorded before there were 9 people in Godspeed, and it’s only really related by name. We made that cassette and out of that came the bigger band. I don’t know why it hasn’t turned up on the internet yet.”

I’ve been looking. I thought I’d found it once, and after a maddeningly exciting wait for the thing to download, it turned out to be the band’s Peel Session hidden in a misleading zip file.

“That’s funny,” he says, and clearly he hasn’t read his own Wikipedia pages. “I keep expecting it’s gonna pop up but it never does.”

I decide to be annoying and push the issue, commenting that it really is something there’s an interest in.

“It’s tricky. Because it doesn’t bear any relation to what Godspeed did, it would be hard to put it out without people feeling ripped off. I wouldn’t want someone buying it thinking they were getting a Godspeed record only to find out it’s something completely different.”

That’s only going to add to the already existing mythology around the thing, in my eyes.

“I think it’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s that great!” he says, laughing. “It’s pretty good, but it’s not great! I think it’s mostly interesting because it’s a product of its time, and that was a weird time for music back then. There was nothing going on. So it’s interesting on that level. But musically, I don’t know how much value it has. I mean, there’s singing on it!” He starts laughing again. “There’s tons of singing on it! So there you go.”

I suggest that he leaks it himself and gets it over with, but he says he doesn’t have a copy. When I tell him I was kind of expecting him to say that, he mentions that he does have the master copy, just not a playable copy. So who knows if it will ever appear again? Releasing things online doesn’t seem to be something Efrim holds much store in. Although the band are perfectly fine with people taping their shows – “Just cause it seems a silly thing to stop people from doing,” Efrim explains. “It’s nice that people tape shows, why stop it?” – downloading music seems to be something they are less comfortable with.

“Well. What are you gonna do about it? I don’t understand how things are gonna continue the way things are going. It seems clear that people are earning less and less money from the work they do musically, and I don’t understand how the new model is going to sustain any kind of culture in the upcoming years. But I understand why people illegally download. It’s like home taping, so what can you do about it?”

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