Today I listened to the Ralph Records 10th Anniversary Radio Special, which was recorded in 1982. The whole idea was apparently to lock Penn Jilette (whoever he is?) in to a hotel room for six days, provided only with the whole Ralph Records discography and a tape recorder. He was to listen through all records and talk about them in a diary like fashion, for a celebratory like promo vinyl release (don't think it ever was a radio show(?)). It says they had about 60 hours of Penn Jilette-talk and edited it down to a 75 minute 2XLP release. It was partly a fun listen, but not as informative as I hoped it'd be. And it's very awkwardly edited, which I had some issues with to begin with. Don't know if it's just part of the label's overall absurdity nature, or what that was all about. However, it might be worth a listen for those of you interested. Snippets of bunch of label releases throughout aswell.
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