Liner Notes:
Jerry spent lot's of time on this album (2 months) because he wanted to explore the story telling side of music. The final product was a concept album. Jerry hired his brother, Gerald, to come in and record backup guitar for him, so "I could do all the shreddin' while he played the dumb stuff." This record fuses together the wonders of a good story with a meticulously planned piece of music. The story is based off of the true events of Jerry's spring break of '67.
The manuscript of the story penned by Jerry still remains; here's the explanation of the album in his words (don't feel free to interpret it another way, he says):
"Creeepy Uncles:
So I was playing at this sick club "Creeepy Uncles" when my dumb brother Gerald accidentally snapped the neck of his guitar. I was pretty pissed at 'em, so I stopped the show three hours early. I dumped a pina colada on the manager and walked out of the club. For a while I was just walkin' around downtown wearing my sunglasses and struttin' like a hoss. All of a sudden this crazy typhoon picked up and swept me into a sewer drain. I tried crawling around for a while. Then pretty soon I found myself in some kind of monastery. A monk by the name of Lapel let me in.
Jerry Traverses the Tibetan Mountains:
So I stayed in this monastery for a couple weeks or something until I had learned how to grow a sick soul patch. Then Lapel sent me out the backdoor and handed me a gravy boat. He told me that if I run into any trouble to "just go cold turkey." So after I had walked around for about twenty minutes I had realized the backdoor of the monastery had let out to the Tibetan Mountains. I was kinda peeved at Lapel for not telling me, but I figured I'd just wander for about a year or so and then go back home. One day while in the mountains I was smoking one of my favorite cigs (dryer sheet flavored) when some kind of disgruntled yak came out from behind a bush. It charged at me but I drop kicked him and used the gravy boat I had been given to chop him into manageable pieces and eat for the last few months of my stay.
Crunk Blues 2:
When I got back to America, I realized how long I had been gone. I was immediately seized by customs, and in the first few minutes in the USA I noticed all of the "JERRY'S MISSING" flyers. There was a pretty big uproar on the Eastern Seaboard and most of the rural Northwest about my disappearance. So when they reported me found there was a big parade and to celebrate I took some of my pals over to a bar I really liked. I got really crunk, LITERALLY, and when I woke up the next morning, I found I had boughten a ton of shares in the "Azerbaijani Envelope Glue Co."
Don't Sell Your Stock Too Quickly:
So I walked over to Wall Street to sell my 3,000 shares of A.E.G.C.O., and noticed that since I had bought my shares, the value had gone from $4.32 a share too $4.29 so I figured I'd wait around until the value of my stock went back up to what I had gotten it for. Then across the room, I saw this beautiful woman. She introduced herself as Norma. After about 46 seconds of talking, I asked her if she wanted to make-out. She said sure, but she said I had to sell all the stock I was carrying around first. Dazed, I looked and saw A.E.G.C.O. had gone up to $4.33. Happy that I was going to make a profit, I quickly sold all of my shares to a tall Serbian Man. He bought every share, and i was just happy that I could begin making out with Norma. So we were making out for about 45 minutes in the stock exchange, when I noticed the chart for the value of A.E.G.C.O. in the background. In the 45 minutes we had been making out, A.E.G.C.O. had risen in value from $4.33 to $96.50. When I realized that Norma had just interfered with me making $275,000, I went crazy. My mother always told me that when I was a child (I can't remember anything before the age of 15) I used to have psychotic outbreaks. I jumped around and kicked a bunch of stuff over for a couple minutes before I got pretty tired. After that I walked home and went to bed."
credits
released May 27, 2013
Jerry- Lead Guitar
Gerald (Jerry's Brother) - Backup Guitar
McGruffins the Junk Yard Dog - Drums
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