The bulk of this album is really just experimental recordings. Only five of the tracks are actually meant to be completed songs ("The Earth Is Hollow...", "Human Fly", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "On Hold" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"). The rest are my earliest attempts at setting up a recording facility and being a multi-instrumentalist. All were recorded in late 1992 to early 1993 with a couple culled from recordings made in the 1980s. The equipment and the techniques were crude and primitve. The album has, essentially, been unavailable for over twenty years. In 2015, it was given a major reworking and is what is presented here.

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Recorded by Chazz Avery 1993 at Crowded Studio in Port Clinton, Ohio
* Recorded sometime during the 1980s at Crowded Studio
All remastered by Chazz Avery 2015 at The Basement

All sounds by Chazz Avery
except:

J.J. Gaylord
vocal on "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "On Hold"
keyboard on "On Hold"

Jerry Cox
guitar and voice on "J. Static"




All songs written by Chazz Avery © 1993 AArdvark

except:

"(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
© 1966 Screen Gems

"The Earth Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky"
Eric Wallack
© 1992 Bhagiti Songs

"Human Fly"
Ivy Rorschach and Lux Interior
© 1979 Headcheese Music

"I Wanna Be Your Dog"
Iggy Pop & Ron Ashton
© 1969 Stooges/Electra

"J Static"
Jerry Cox & Chazz Avery
© 1993 AArdvark

"On Hold"
Billy Oertel
© 1991 Oertel

"Taste The Waste"
Dean and Gene Ween
© 1991 Ween

"Into The White"
Charles Thompson & Kim Deal
© 1989 Rice And Beans Music

"Heartbeat"
Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin
© Universal Music Publishing Group

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
© 1969 Northern Songs Ltd. and EMI Records Ltd.



Cover photo Olan Mills Photography (yes, that photo is Chazz)
Artwork and graphic design by Chazz Avery