cover of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing!

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Grand Opening and Closing!

2001, United States
00:58:56; 60M; 140JS-VAR; 656;
  1. Sleep is Wrong - 6:35
  2. Ambugaton - 5:37
  3. Ablutions - 6:09
  4. 04 - 1997 - 4:56
  5. The Miniature - 1:04
  6. Powerless - 9:29
  7. The Stain - 6:46
  8. Sleepytime (Spirit Is A Bone) - 10:28
  9. Sunflower - 7:52

Matthias Bossi - drums, vocals, percussion (10, 11, 12)
Nancy Elliot - music by (5)
Nils Frykdahl - design, artwork by [museum logo], guitar [6 & 12 string], temple bells, autoharp, vocals, songwriter [song], words by (1, 4, 6, 8)
Per “Ward C. Picnic” Frykdahl - artwork by
Frank Grau - drums (7)
John Kane - artwork by
Carla Kihlstedt - violin [electric], performer [percussion guitar], autoharp, organ [pump organ], vocals, music by, words by (3, 10, 11)
Michael Mellender - percussion, performer [tangularium, lever, wheel, electric pancreas] (10 to 12), guitar (10, 11, 12)
Lorrieann Murray - design
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - producer, music by (1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11)
Kian Nassiri - photography [band]
Pseudo-Lull - artwork by
Dan Rathbun - producer, recorded by, mixed by, mastered by, bass, autoharp, vocals, performer [pedal-action wiggler, thing], music by, words by (7), performer [slide-piano log] (9)
Sandra Schmid - photography [david]
David Shamrock - drums, piano (1 to 9), music by (2, 5, 9)
Moe! Staiano - marimba [pressure-cap], guitar [spring-nail], timpani, performer [metal, spring, popping turtle, food containers], percussion (8)
Hank Williams - words by [word] (2)

Recorded, mixed & mastered at Polymorph Recording, Oakland CA. 1999-2001. Flinch & More Time recorded 2006, Ibid. Track 12 recorded at Great American Music Hall, SF.

Printed in E.U.
(P)+(C) Editions Hurlantes 02006

Much of this music was written collectively, with song ideas arising out of group improvisations and subject to merciless revision by all Museum members.

Friends of the Museum... Peter Conheim, Ona Stewart, David Bloom, Dren, John Carr & Stickman, Rance Mannion, Matt Waldron, Shinichi Momo Koga, Dawn McCarthy, Faun Fables, Greg & John Scharpen, Brian Kenney-Fresno, Grnd Natl Brnds, Uz Jsme Doma, Mumble & Peg, Mark Growden, Species Being, Eric McFadden & the Experience, Charming Hostess, Rube Waddell, Gene Jun (being Gene), Wes Anderson & Schloss, Penny Allman, Katherine Copenhaver, Ramona Downey, Tony Gallegos, Chris Sipe, Mike Pukish, Ether, Rob Mitchell & Suicide Jack, Fear of Sleep, Darling Freakhead, Billy Davis, Thomas Leonard, John Hagelbarger, El Fay, Ron Cleave, Alenka Mullin (plumage), Kian Nassiri, Rob Burger, Mary Ann Opet, Nancy Elliot, Joshua Kohl, Peter Thelen, Sam Hurwitt, Mark Orton, Sam Prestianni, Alan Werner, Dee Ann Schaer, The Xerces Society, our families.

Packaging: Digipak
Total Playing Time: 77 mins, 1 sec

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