In preparation for my participation in the Hal McGee 50th Birthday Extravaganza, I have been working on sharpening up my presentation skills. The Tapegerm collective is a natural gymnasium for the building up of such musical muscles. Thus, this Stimulooper Loopustimer serves both as sonic sculpture and preview of performances to come. Goff plays Hello Kitty Stratocaster, volume/wah pedal, two distortion boxes, loop duplicator, and microcassette player loaded with recordings of odd old 33 RPM vinyls. Credits: Sharing the virtual Tapegerm stage are treatments of David Fuglewicz Open Loops, Loops From M.Nomized Guest Artist and Loops From Michael Thomas Jackson Guest Artist.

On a visit to Myspace, the annoying Site Pal Avatar forced itself upon me, claiming it would work for me 24/7 without pay or sleep. Naturally I employed it to carry out my dirty Dadaesque deeds. This one sounds best when played at high volume. Credits: Features cut-up arrangement of recordings samples by Dereck Higgins, Site Pal Avatar, Reflector Stratocaster from C. Goff III, loops from DJ Get Yo Fat On Open loops, Cystem Open loops, and International Garbageman Open loops.

Squeezed between a handkerchief and a sore throat lozenge, this piece attempts to capture in sound the essence of a NyQuil nightmare. Since my germie throat was incapable of howling over this recording, I leave that opportunity open for any interactive listeners. Credits: C. Goff III: midi tool, nnn from a Mikadams circuit-bent Speak & Spell, Lawrence, Kansas thunderstorm, loops from Contagion, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Hal McGee Open Loop, GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist, and The Majestic Twelve Guest Artist. Halloween Mix

The main melodies of this theme were brought to me by forces beyond my understanding in a dream. At the time I thought it all had a sort of Simon and Garfunkel Feelin Groovy thing going on. As I began to work with these sounds in the conscious world, however, they took on the guises of weird old sailors, so I dressed them up in the sounds and words presented here. Credits: C. Goff III guitars and voices embellished with Altered Open Loops from Dave Fuglewicz Open Loops, Blind Mime Open Loops, International Garbageman Open loops, and Ed Drury Guest Artist .

This 1887 folk ballad by E.S. Thilp reveals a few 19th Century conceptions of beauty, morality, health, and humor. C. Goff III has brought to the world a 21st Century interpretation of this song after it has been allowed to ferment for 120 years. Credits: Words And Basic Tune By E.S. Thilp (1887). This production features Goffs voice and twiddlings, blended together with altered bits of open loops from Contagion, GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist, and The Majestic Twelve Guest Artist.

Before the Union Vs. Confederate States Civil War, William Clarke Quantrill had served American society as a horse thief, slave stealer, murderer, and bible school teacher. During the war, he served as a terrorist guerrilla for the Confederacy in Missouri. In August, 1863, he led 450 Confederate raiders (including Frank and Jesse James) across the Missouri border into Kansas to spend the day murdering 150 men and boys in the city of Lawrence. Most of the buildings in Lawrence were burned to the ground during the attack on the town. The song recreated here is a tribute to Quantrill written by an admirer (name unknown) not long after the Lawrence raid. Credits: Featuring Mental Anguish Open Loops (which originated in a former Confederate state purely by coincidence) as well as guitar, ukulele, vocals, and production by C. Goff III.

This is a true story which took place September 4, 2006, a few blocks from my home in Lawrence, Kansas. The accompanying photo collage was made from the few pictures mentioned in the song. Credits: Featuring a few words from the late great hero himself, Blind Mime Open Loops, Hal McGee Open Loops, Arthur Loves Plastic Open Loops, Mellow Jeremy Guest Artist, & Michael Thomas Jackson Guest Artist. Composed, arranged, sung, & strummed by C. Goff III.

The pieces of this germ puzzle appropriately were assembled by one quite virally infected, over-medically deflected, catatonically selected, somnambulistically affected, unshaved, and unprotected. Credits: Featuring the hotter than fur recording duo "Carmelita & Penny". Germ loops provided by Buzzsaw & The Shavings Open Loops, 8th Day Rebellion Guest Artist, Hebephrenic Open Loops. Other noises shedded and shredded by C. Goff III.

Credits: Loopies from DJ Get Yo Fat On Open Loops, Fever Spoor Guest Artist, Yuroun Guest Artist

Featuring Ellen And The Academics Credits: free loop sample pack loops by Virus Factory.

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A dream or maybe not a dream, but like a candy bar stuffed in a horn, like a buffalo horn, the corn dried and ready to pop, then popping, then chewing, then digesting, then singing at the cocktail lounge with Sammy and Dean.

Don Campau listened to Knockout Knotes on 03/28/08 23:38:51 and said: "Totally engaging , late night by-the-fire-with-the- lights-off sounds. Never in a hurry but unfolding as a breath takes it natural time to release, hypnotic and magical.Definitely a new move for Barbie."

Mental Anguish listened to Knockout Knotes on 02/10/08 07:15:44 and said: "I have been up close & personal with C3's barbie violin & its quite the instrument I must say, excellent use of it in this quasi long playing slice of audio mixery. Quite the avant esoteric mix here, which for some reason elements of the mix remind me of bauhaus in one of the many different avant experimental type pieces they churned out during the day. Excellent work here!"

Dave Fuglewicz listened to Knockout Knotes on 02/07/08 21:43:33 and said: "Reese's cups drenched in absinthe fuels your crazed bow, melting my brain on rivers of sonic textoral passages. Uniting with a unique and singular flash of congruity my ear goggles flow together morphing into one another. Visions of caterpillars on mushrooms bang and clangle the walls of my brainpan and indeed, where else would they be? Is it soup yet? Of course it is, grab a spoon and dig in."

Buzzssaw and a Serving of Swabian Shavings listened to Stimulooper Loopustimer on 01/20/08 18:41:49 and said: "And the old Kaiser, von Bismarck and young Willie had gathered about the cheap and unstable little table in the Berlin palace where was planted luncheon, and the old Kaiser frequently reproached little Willie for shaking the table. The schnitzel and kraut finished, they turned to quaff the champagne and the old Kaiser proudly declared it a German creation. Bismarck decried the German tipple declared that his patriotism ended at his stomach and avowed that French was better, and in a malevolent moment avowed he could secure some. The Stimulooper played suddenly, and the old Kaiser fled and Bismarck explained the absence as due to the curse of old men, an overactive bladder, but in reality he sought the Goffmix, discernible but as yet unplayable, even by an orchestra threatened with the knout. It is now, and joy to be alive. A Goffbravo, by the trampled fields of Sedan. "

Don Campau listened to Stimulooper Loopustimer on 01/19/08 14:35:55 and said: "Presented and paced beautifully, a real hallucingenic exploration and natural extension of your many years of former work. Tremendous!"

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On a visit to Myspace, the annoying Site Pal Avatar forced itself upon me, claiming it would work for me 24/7 without pay or sleep. Naturally I employed it to carry out my dirty Dadaesque deeds. This one sounds best when played at high volume. Credits: Features cut-up arrangement of recordings samples by Dereck Higgins, Site Pal Avatar, Reflector Stratocaster from C. Goff III, loops from DJ Get Yo Fat On Open loops, Cystem Open loops, and International Garbageman Open loops..