It included a link to the 'That'll Be The Day' demo.
You may have heard by now that The Residents debuted their full-length 'Eskimo' live show at The Mayan Theatre in L.A. a few weeks ago - YouTube is full of footage, should you want to spoil the surprise for yourself.
The guys were delighted with how it all went, and unveiled two new pieces of 'Eskimo' music in 'The Tale Of Two Tupilaqs' and 'The Skeleton Under The Sea'. For the seriously SERIOUSLY hardcore fans, there were also some real golden oldies, such as 'James Dean's Death' and 'Kamikaze Lady' alongside material from the recent, blink and you missed it 'Dookietown' EP. What a night! And you'll be pleased to hear The Residents' army of booking agents and promoters are busily piecing together a world tour of the whole thing, which is sure to swallow up the lives of everybody involved for months and months. More news on dates and details as they come in.
In the meantime, the latest offering in the universally acclaimed, critically criticised and multi award-winning pREServed reissue campaign has arrived - the 'American Composers Series' 3CD set is out now, featuring the usual wealth of unreleased material, demos, alternate mixes and so on. Unfortunately, it doesn't include material the guys never actually recorded, which is always irritating. But you may still enjoy it - everything you need to know is RIGHT HERE.
Elsewhere, The Residents are taking the opportunity to fill the time before the 'Eskimo' tour takes shape to complete the next new album, which has been a while in the making (overlapping with the end of the 'Doctor Dark' production) and is currently called.... I really wish we could tell you, but we don't need another Uncle Willie, 'Trouble With Harrys' situation. Not yet, anyway. But everything we've heard so far is remarkable.
There are also the usual stream of ideas floating around somewhere near the "projects to realise/complete pile". Something called 'Loveland', another project based around material recorded for last year's Paris performance, ongoing efforts to somehow free and release the Pee Wee's Playhouse recordings and on and on it goes. As ever, you'll be the first to know.
For now, though, please content your burning desire to hear all of these yet to be completed projects with an offering direct from the aforementioned 'American Composers Series' pREServed release. One afternoon back in the mid-80s, The Residents sketched out a rough arrangement of 'That'll Be The Day', the Buddy Holly song, with half an idea that it might fit somewhere in the 'American Composers Series' body of work. In the event, it didn't, but please download and take a listen to that demo, complete with rather lovely backing vocals and questionable guitar playing.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wpwf2lvyfm1vrbuqdlz4z/That-ll-Be-The-Day-Demo.mp3
And if you like that, well the 'American Composers Series' 3CD set may be your kind of thing. If not, probably don't bother.
https://cherryred.co/ResidentsACS
And that's all for now pals,
Much love,
All @ New Ralph Too
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