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	[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is mono—the stereo is simulated [on the Free-Form Freakout tracks]. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically reprocessed—it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad hoc—all by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?		[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is mono—the stereo is simulated [on the Free-Form Freakout tracks]. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically reprocessed—it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad hoc—all by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?
	</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 2005<ref>''The Wire'', August 2005 pg.37</ref><blockquote>For the longest time, I couldn't listen to ''The Parable of Arable Land'' at all. All I could hear was my voice going to that strange place at the end of the first line on "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane]]". Nobody ever sang an interval like that in rock 'n' roll. I always knew my voice should have gone somewhere else. But where should the voice have gone? I guess I've been trying to find out ever since.</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw ~~Interview~~ with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]		</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 2005<ref>''The Wire'', August 2005 pg.37</ref><blockquote>For the longest time, I couldn't listen to ''The Parable of Arable Land'' at all. All I could hear was my voice going to that strange place at the end of the first line on "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane]]". Nobody ever sang an interval like that in rock 'n' roll. I always knew my voice should have gone somewhere else. But where should the voice have gone? I guess I've been trying to find out ever since.</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw Audio interview with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]

			[https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/11/haydn-larson-exploring-the-avant-garde-with-the-familiar-ugly-and-red-krayola.html Text interview with Hadyn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2024]

	== Reviews ==		== Reviews ==

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Background

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	== Background ==		== Background ==

	* February 1967: recorded unreleased single [[Dairymaid's Lament (single)\|Dairymaid's Lament]]		* February 1967: recorded unreleased first single [[Dairymaid's Lament (single)\|''Dairymaid's Lament'']]
	* March 1967: performance at [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|KNUZ Battle of the Bands]] gets the band signed to [[International Artists]]		* March 1967: performance at [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|KNUZ Battle of the Bands]] gets the band signed to [[International Artists]]
	* ~~[[Demos for The Parable of Arable Land]]~~		* Song demo recording session
	* April 1967: [[Free Form Freak-Out]] recording session		* April 1, 1967: [[Free Form Freak-Out]] recording session
	* April - May 1967: Song recording sessions		* April - May 1967: Song recording sessions
			* May - June(?) 1967: ''[[Coconut Hotel]]'' recording sessions
	* Album is released June 1967		* Album is released June 1967
	'''Further reading:''' Paul Drummond's booklet for the 2011 remaster		'''Further reading:''' Paul Drummond's booklet for the 2011 remaster

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	[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is mono—the stereo is simulated [on the Free-Form Freakout tracks]. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically reprocessed—it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad hoc—all by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?		[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is mono—the stereo is simulated [on the Free-Form Freakout tracks]. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically reprocessed—it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad hoc—all by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?
	</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw Interview with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]		</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 2005<ref>''The Wire'', August 2005 pg.37</ref><blockquote>For the longest time, I couldn't listen to ''The Parable of Arable Land'' at all. All I could hear was my voice going to that strange place at the end of the first line on "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane]]". Nobody ever sang an interval like that in rock 'n' roll. I always knew my voice should have gone somewhere else. But where should the voice have gone? I guess I've been trying to find out ever since.</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw Interview with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]

	== Reviews ==		== Reviews ==

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Liner notes

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	General Fox (~~likely~~ Lelan Rogers)<blockquote>A glorious night, and I was "born again" to the music of the "Rebellation Generation". Rick, Steve and Mayo, "THE RED CRAYOLA" - had come to Andrus Studio with a few of their friends 50 friends to be exact, to record a FREE-FORM FREAK-OUT album. They brought with them their own form of music - a bell, buzzsaw, motor cycle, guitars, drums, organs, bottles, sticks, mouth bow, rocks, ballons, kazoos, flutes, piccolos, a hammer, jugs and just about every other item you can think of that makes noise, but then "Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder" - And what is noise to one is Beautiful Music to Another" - I watched for two hours as a young man made his music by striking two match sticks together. He had apparently flashed - and to him this was his beautiful music - (His girl friend kept time by blowing in a pop bottle). Yes, this is a true - "FREE-FORM FREAK-OUT" album, but listen to "THE RED CRAYOLA" as they weave their own music in and out of the tracks. Listen, as "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane\|HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE]]" takes you on a trip - as "[[Transparent Radiation\|TRANSPARENT RADIATION]]" tells you a personal message of todays REBELLATION GENERATION". "[[War Sucks\|WAR SUCKS]]" speaks then "[[Pink Stainless Tail\|PINK STAINLESS TAIL]]" quote - "You speak soft of a Black Pink Stainless Tail". . . . . . . . Listen carefully to "[[Parable of Arable Land (song)\|PARABLE OF ARABLE LAND]]" - The ultimate in sound. The total expression of "THE RED CRAYOLA". Saving the best for last, listen to FORMER REFLECTION ENDURING DOUBT - The soulful song of the Album. Yes, ''[[International Artists\|INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS]]'' proudly presents "THE RED CRAYOLA" and wishes to take this opportunity to express The Red Crayola's thanks to their friends, "[[The Familiar Ugly]]" for its contribution to them.</blockquote>[[Frederick Barthelme]]<blockquote>Silence is the conceptual ideology in which sound is published. Music has to do with the publication of choices relavent to production. This LP evinces a series of choices taken by the group during the past eight months, already new choices have been made, this is a record.</blockquote>[[Steve Cunningham]]<blockquote>Rather than viewing the perforations of a player piano's scroll as stated areas allowing for the production of sound, regard the scroll itself as a process which accepts the determinations attendant to audition, yet contains even these, as well as silence, that they may occur. There are, then, no non-participating agents. The liberty of feeling, distinct from intent, affirms the musical process.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]]<blockquote>Limited definitions define limit and one can go just so far.		General Fox (Lelan Rogers)<blockquote>A glorious night, and I was "born again" to the music of the "Rebellation Generation". Rick, Steve and Mayo, "THE RED CRAYOLA" - had come to Andrus Studio with a few of their friends 50 friends to be exact, to record a FREE-FORM FREAK-OUT album. They brought with them their own form of music - a bell, buzzsaw, motor cycle, guitars, drums, organs, bottles, sticks, mouth bow, rocks, ballons, kazoos, flutes, piccolos, a hammer, jugs and just about every other item you can think of that makes noise, but then "Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder" - And what is noise to one is Beautiful Music to Another" - I watched for two hours as a young man made his music by striking two match sticks together. He had apparently flashed - and to him this was his beautiful music - (His girl friend kept time by blowing in a pop bottle). Yes, this is a true - "FREE-FORM FREAK-OUT" album, but listen to "THE RED CRAYOLA" as they weave their own music in and out of the tracks. Listen, as "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane\|HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE]]" takes you on a trip - as "[[Transparent Radiation\|TRANSPARENT RADIATION]]" tells you a personal message of todays REBELLATION GENERATION". "[[War Sucks\|WAR SUCKS]]" speaks then "[[Pink Stainless Tail\|PINK STAINLESS TAIL]]" quote - "You speak soft of a Black Pink Stainless Tail". . . . . . . . Listen carefully to "[[Parable of Arable Land (song)\|PARABLE OF ARABLE LAND]]" - The ultimate in sound. The total expression of "THE RED CRAYOLA". Saving the best for last, listen to FORMER REFLECTION ENDURING DOUBT - The soulful song of the Album. Yes, ''[[International Artists\|INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS]]'' proudly presents "THE RED CRAYOLA" and wishes to take this opportunity to express The Red Crayola's thanks to their friends, "[[The Familiar Ugly]]" for its contribution to them.</blockquote>[[Frederick Barthelme]]<blockquote>Silence is the conceptual ideology in which sound is published. Music has to do with the publication of choices relavent to production. This LP evinces a series of choices taken by the group during the past eight months, already new choices have been made, this is a record.</blockquote>[[Steve Cunningham]]<blockquote>Rather than viewing the perforations of a player piano's scroll as stated areas allowing for the production of sound, regard the scroll itself as a process which accepts the determinations attendant to audition, yet contains even these, as well as silence, that they may occur. There are, then, no non-participating agents. The liberty of feeling, distinct from intent, affirms the musical process.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]]<blockquote>Limited definitions define limit and one can go just so far.

	Here we go.</blockquote>		Here we go.</blockquote>

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Chicago Seed

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	=== Chicago Seed ===		=== Chicago Seed ===
	July 1, 1968<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28044469?seq=15</ref><blockquote>This is probably the freakiest album ever recorded. Released around the end of last June, it made it to Chicago sometime this spring. The Crayola specialize in shifting from chaos to structured runs, while the Ugly (I hope that they'll pardon me for becoming familiar_) play such background instruments as coke bottles, motorcycles, buzzsaws and kazoos. "Hurricane Fighter Plane" has the freakiest lyrics ever, and the combined group makes the ultimate statement on violence in "[[War Sucks]]". Forget General Fox's stupid liner notes and pick up on it. Highly recommended for listening to when stoned, especially for the amazing channel separation.</blockquote>		July 1, 1968<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28044469?seq=15</ref><blockquote>This is probably the freakiest album ever recorded. Released around the end of last June, it made it to Chicago sometime this spring. The Crayola specialize in shifting from chaos to structured runs, while the Ugly (I hope that they'll pardon me for becoming familiar_) play such background instruments as coke bottles, motorcycles, buzzsaws and kazoos. "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane]]" has the freakiest lyrics ever, and the combined group makes the ultimate statement on violence in "[[War Sucks]]". Forget General Fox's stupid liner notes and pick up on it. Highly recommended for listening to when stoned, especially for the amazing channel separation.</blockquote>

	=== Record Mirror ===		=== Record Mirror ===

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	[[Mayo Thompson]], 2023<ref>https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/10/red-krayola-interview-mayo-thompson.html</ref><blockquote>[[International Artists]] signed us after our first producer, Lelan Rogers, heard us play in a mall as part of a [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|battle of the bands staged by a local top-40 radio station]]. The idea is what you hear—the facts—freakout—song—freakout—song et cetera. It’s an historical record of what we were doing, incorporating what was going on while we were doing it. It represents our inquiry into what all it is possible to take for music. As for conceptual, the concepts involved are artful but, no, I don’t see it as conceptual art.		[[Mayo Thompson]], 2023<ref>https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/10/red-krayola-interview-mayo-thompson.html</ref>

	[Having Roky Erickson on the album] was Lelan Rogers’ idea—turned out nice. He was a gifted instrumentalist and a powerhouse singer. Lelan brought him to the studio one night—him and Tommy Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators jug player. Roky listened and understood right off. He overdubbed his parts in no time. Steve knew him and the other Elevators from working as John Ike’s drum roady. Rick and I had never met him or any of them. I think he had fun. He wrote me a letter later—addressed to “Juno”—for the label to give me—they told me about it but never delivered it. I don’t know why not. Maybe it had something to do with the Elevators being in trouble with the law.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>		<blockquote>
			[[International Artists]] signed us after our first producer, Lelan Rogers, heard us play in a mall as part of a [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|battle of the bands staged by a local top-40 radio station]]. The idea is what you hear—the facts—freakout—song—freakout—song et cetera. It’s an historical record of what we were doing, incorporating what was going on while we were doing it. It represents our inquiry into what all it is possible to take for music. As for conceptual, the concepts involved are artful but, no, I don’t see it as conceptual art.

			[Having Roky Erickson on the album] was Lelan Rogers’ idea—turned out nice. He was a gifted instrumentalist and a powerhouse singer. Lelan brought him to the studio one night—him and Tommy Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators jug player. Roky listened and understood right off. He overdubbed his parts in no time. Steve knew him and the other Elevators from working as John Ike’s drum roady. Rick and I had never met him or any of them. I think he had fun. He wrote me a letter later—addressed to “Juno”—for the label to give me—they told me about it but never delivered it. I don’t know why not. Maybe it had something to do with the Elevators being in trouble with the law.
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			[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>

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	[[Mayo Thompson]], 2023<ref>https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/10/red-krayola-interview-mayo-thompson.html</ref><blockquote>[[International Artists]] signed us after our first producer, Lelan Rogers, heard us play in a mall as part of a [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|battle of the bands staged by a local top-40 radio station]]. The idea is what you hear—the facts—freakout—song—freakout—song et cetera. It’s an historical record of what we were doing, incorporating what was going on while we were doing it. It represents our inquiry into what all it is possible to take for music. As for conceptual, the concepts involved are artful but, no, I don’t see it as conceptual art.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>		[[Mayo Thompson]], 2023<ref>https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/10/red-krayola-interview-mayo-thompson.html</ref><blockquote>[[International Artists]] signed us after our first producer, Lelan Rogers, heard us play in a mall as part of a [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|battle of the bands staged by a local top-40 radio station]]. The idea is what you hear—the facts—freakout—song—freakout—song et cetera. It’s an historical record of what we were doing, incorporating what was going on while we were doing it. It represents our inquiry into what all it is possible to take for music. As for conceptual, the concepts involved are artful but, no, I don’t see it as conceptual art.

			[Having Roky Erickson on the album] was Lelan Rogers’ idea—turned out nice. He was a gifted instrumentalist and a powerhouse singer. Lelan brought him to the studio one night—him and Tommy Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators jug player. Roky listened and understood right off. He overdubbed his parts in no time. Steve knew him and the other Elevators from working as John Ike’s drum roady. Rick and I had never met him or any of them. I think he had fun. He wrote me a letter later—addressed to “Juno”—for the label to give me—they told me about it but never delivered it. I don’t know why not. Maybe it had something to do with the Elevators being in trouble with the law.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>

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	[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>		[[Mayo Thompson]], 2023<ref>https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/10/red-krayola-interview-mayo-thompson.html</ref><blockquote>[[International Artists]] signed us after our first producer, Lelan Rogers, heard us play in a mall as part of a [[Shows/KNUZ Battle of the Bands\|battle of the bands staged by a local top-40 radio station]]. The idea is what you hear—the facts—freakout—song—freakout—song et cetera. It’s an historical record of what we were doing, incorporating what was going on while we were doing it. It represents our inquiry into what all it is possible to take for music. As for conceptual, the concepts involved are artful but, no, I don’t see it as conceptual art.</blockquote>[[Mayo Thompson]], 1996<ref>http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo.html</ref>

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	The first album had a lot of tunes that wouldn't have been called "industrial" then. But looking back on it now, they seemed to anticipate a lot of that kind of stuff. How did the ideas for those arrangements come about? It was pretty different from anything else around that era, on what was nominally a "pop" record.		The first album had a lot of tunes that wouldn't have been called "industrial" then. But looking back on it now, they seemed to anticipate a lot of that kind of stuff. How did the ideas for those arrangements come about? It was pretty different from anything else around that era, on what was nominally a "pop" record.

	[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is ~~mono--the~~ stereo is simulated. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically ~~reprocessed--it~~ was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad ~~hoc--all~~ by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?		[...] At the time, everybody was making it up as they went along. The first album is mono—the stereo is simulated [on the Free-Form Freakout tracks]. It's a trick. It wasn't electronically reprocessed—it was like two tape recorders with one master tape (here), and one master tape (there), and then you'd put your thumb on that one occasionally and slow it down, so that, ooh, the ground gets a little weird. Really ad hoc—all by the ear. How does it work? How can it work? What can you make it do?
	</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw Interview with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]		</blockquote>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851SV68r4vw Interview with Haydn Larson of the Familiar Ugly, 2023]

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