Walls Of Genius One Sheet Catalog List - July 27, 1983
This one-sheet “catalog” of titles was created as an addendum to The Mark Of The Moron. It was slipped into catalogs after the date indicated. The blue paper and italic script indicate that this was typed up clandestinely at my place of work.
David, Ed and I were proving to be quite prolific, but only three titles were listed in The Mark of The Moron catalog: WoG 0001 (Walls of Genius), WoG 0002 (Sunday, Monday Or Always!) and WoG 0003 (The Many Faces Of Mr. Morocco). We weren’t even quite “Walls Of Genius” at this point. The one-sheet indicates that “All Walls of Genius cassettes are 90 minutes each” and “Walls of Genius is proud to make available”. Walls Of Genius was more a cassette label serving our various incarnations than the actual name of our band.
So here it is, mid-summer 1983 and we felt we were “on” to something. We were getting reviews in the underground press and even doing a series of performances at The Brilligworks Coffeehouse on The Hill, in Boulder. We had traded tapes with a bunch of underground alternative bands and had, lo-and-behold, sold perhaps as many as ten cassettes by this time. More folks were contacting us due to the exposure in underground zines like OPtion, Objekt and Warning. So we looked at what we already had in the can.
The Essential Rumours of Marriage was already mixed, a compendium of the best material from Rumours Of Marriage, that featured both Evan Cantor and Ed Fowler in their pre-WoG ‘glory’. So that became WoG 0004, “available by special request only”. This was added to the list of titles primarily as part of our ongoing effort to create the illusion that more was going on in Boulder, Colorado, than was really happening. We never truly intended to promote Rumours Of Marriage. It is ironic that as the local scene developed, this attitude became a self-fulfilling prophecy with a bunch of underground and alternative bands making a lot of noise, bands such as Doll Parts, Architects Office and Naram Sin.
Almost Groovy! was all new material that had been mixed and was ready for release not long after “The Mark” catalog was issued. That became WoG 0005 and we wanted it to be available.
Johnny Rocco was an already mixed collection of so-called “Pre-WoG” Walls Of Genius, a tape marked as “From The Living Room All The Way To The Closet, Greatest Hits Volume 2”, featuring Ed’n Evan, Fabian Policy, Charity Cases, The Ed’n Evan Hullabaloo and Psychotic Bozos. It included some very distinctive material, including the first go-round with “March Of The Lost Wormsouls” as well as “The Murderer’s Nightmare”, “Dogshit Drool”, a tremendous version of “Born On The Bayou” and the extended classic “Johnny Rocco”, one of our first forays into using taped material. We determined that it was a consistently strong collection, so it immediately became WoG 0006. To this day, I think it holds it own with the best of WoG’s subsequent releases.
- Evan Cantor
David, Ed and I were proving to be quite prolific, but only three titles were listed in The Mark of The Moron catalog: WoG 0001 (Walls of Genius), WoG 0002 (Sunday, Monday Or Always!) and WoG 0003 (The Many Faces Of Mr. Morocco). We weren’t even quite “Walls Of Genius” at this point. The one-sheet indicates that “All Walls of Genius cassettes are 90 minutes each” and “Walls of Genius is proud to make available”. Walls Of Genius was more a cassette label serving our various incarnations than the actual name of our band.
So here it is, mid-summer 1983 and we felt we were “on” to something. We were getting reviews in the underground press and even doing a series of performances at The Brilligworks Coffeehouse on The Hill, in Boulder. We had traded tapes with a bunch of underground alternative bands and had, lo-and-behold, sold perhaps as many as ten cassettes by this time. More folks were contacting us due to the exposure in underground zines like OPtion, Objekt and Warning. So we looked at what we already had in the can.
The Essential Rumours of Marriage was already mixed, a compendium of the best material from Rumours Of Marriage, that featured both Evan Cantor and Ed Fowler in their pre-WoG ‘glory’. So that became WoG 0004, “available by special request only”. This was added to the list of titles primarily as part of our ongoing effort to create the illusion that more was going on in Boulder, Colorado, than was really happening. We never truly intended to promote Rumours Of Marriage. It is ironic that as the local scene developed, this attitude became a self-fulfilling prophecy with a bunch of underground and alternative bands making a lot of noise, bands such as Doll Parts, Architects Office and Naram Sin.
Almost Groovy! was all new material that had been mixed and was ready for release not long after “The Mark” catalog was issued. That became WoG 0005 and we wanted it to be available.
Johnny Rocco was an already mixed collection of so-called “Pre-WoG” Walls Of Genius, a tape marked as “From The Living Room All The Way To The Closet, Greatest Hits Volume 2”, featuring Ed’n Evan, Fabian Policy, Charity Cases, The Ed’n Evan Hullabaloo and Psychotic Bozos. It included some very distinctive material, including the first go-round with “March Of The Lost Wormsouls” as well as “The Murderer’s Nightmare”, “Dogshit Drool”, a tremendous version of “Born On The Bayou” and the extended classic “Johnny Rocco”, one of our first forays into using taped material. We determined that it was a consistently strong collection, so it immediately became WoG 0006. To this day, I think it holds it own with the best of WoG’s subsequent releases.
- Evan Cantor