Nut Music: Hopeless Obscurity
P.O. Box 5033
Herndon, VA 22070
Press release #3
For immediate release (big news)
September 12, 1992
Finn McCool Kills One Bird w/Two Stones
“I like folk music. I don’t think I play it. I would if I could, 11 says Finn McCool in a quote our promotions department scraped together from several conversations.
McCool has released two, that’s right, two cassette releases of what might be called pseudo-folk or quasar-folk or quasi-folk music from the land of Quasi, but could not be called folk music because McCool doesn’t think he plays it, but he would if he could.
Like the chicken or the egg controversy, it’s hard to say which release has come first. Both projects were worked on at the same time. McCool’s second effort has been released with his first collection of songs, in order to help him to avoid any sophomore slump possibilities.
Finn McCool’s double cassette releases are said to be distinctly separate recordings, each with a sound and character all their own–unlike the recent offerings of Guns and Roses which were basically two halves of a double album. In a prepared statement Finn McCool proclaimed, “I’m excited about these releases.”
McCool’s double release release has caused controversy in the Nut music camp as the Nut Music supergroup of noise, Infant Mort, had similar plans that they now feel have been thwarted.
“How’s it going to look, like a cliche if we do the same thing. First there’s Guns and Roses, Springsteen, McCool and then Infant Mort would be doing the same thing? Maybe we won’t release anything,” responded Infant Mort member George Willard.
Nut music spokesman David Craig pointed out that the relation of Finn McCool’s two cassette recordings to the two part recordings of Bruce Springsteen and Guns and Roses is purely coincidental.
On the Nut music controversy he said, “Those (the Infant Mort tapes) are some of Nut music’s worst proposed releases, but what music label isn’t trying to force bad music on people.”
