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Bootstrappers Album




  Type Album
  Artist Bootstrappers
  Cover Bootstrappersjpg
  Released 1989
  Recorded 1989
  Genre Improvised Music
  Length ~52:00
  Label New Alliance
  Producer Elliott Sharp , Mike Watt


''Bootstrappers'' is the eponymous, and only, release by the Bootstrappers , a one-time ensemble of avant-garde guitarist Elliott Sharp and the Reactionaries / Minutemen / FIREHOSE Rhythm Section of bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley . The project recorded and released one full-length CD of improvised music, which was released on Watt's New Alliance Records label.


TRACK LISTING

#The Memory Is A Muscle – 3:36
#Spider Baby – 2:30
#New Boots – 1:05
#Taxista – 1:14
#Flicker – 1:39
#Third Rail – 2:08
#Media Dub – 8:00
#D-I-A-L-C-A-S-H – 4:10
#X/Delta – 2:52
#Their Faces Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue – 1:49
#Presidential Apology – 4:51
#Mud – 1:28
#Indeed – 1:31
#Empty-Vee – 3:39
#Long Beach Dub/Feen – 7:04
#Maneuvers – 4:59
:All songs composed/credited to George Hurley, Elliott Sharp, and Mike Watt.


MUSICAL PERSONNEL



MISCELLANEA

  • On the album, Watt used a Guild Ashbory Electric Bass , an instrument the approximate size of a mandolin with rubber-band-like silicon strings.