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Spike and Kar: Lecture on The Blanks

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larger image		 Spoken word recording of Spike and Kar from The Blanks discussing band history and fame.
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Topics

  1. Introduction
  2. Eggheads, band beginnings
  3. Blanks II
  4. Blanks III, Mark Miller, Christopher Araha Arohadej
  5. Blanks IV, getting back on track
  6. New Years in Tokyo
  7. Christopher Araha Arohadej quits
  8. After New Years in Tokyo, “Static Radio,” lost albums
  9. “Marta Rules,” New House
  10. Pressures of success, name change?
  11. “Let's Vomit”
  12. Band break and slow period
  13. “Granada,” new songs, profanity
  14. Vintage Blanks Sampler, solo work, Blanks Enterprises
  15. Farewell, more music, Tri-plug Theory
  16. “Farewell to The Blanks”
  1. Blanks Mach II
  2. Favorite groups, influences
  3. Solo and outside work
  4. Work with the insane
  5. The Blanks on CD?
  6. Politicians Who Kill (PWK)
  7. Dan Curtis
  8. Spike's influences
  9. “38 People at My Party”
  10. Staying humble
  11. Why has XS gone insane?
  12. Blanks hats
  13. Closing, “The Blanks are Gonna Blank Your Mind”
  14. Donny Osmond and Disco Influence (Digital Album Bonus Track)
  15. Club Playbill Auction (Digital Album Bonus Track)

Recorded live in front of a student audience at the University of Texas at Austin on April 21, 1988.
©2008 The Blanks.

2008: First release, compact disc, Blanks Enterprise.

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Spike and I gave this lecture to a group of University of Texas at Austin students in late Spring of 1998. At this time, The Blanks were assumed done. We had completed a farewell, reflections recording in Summer 1987 and released a one-time reunion single at the end of that year.

Even though Spike and I were recapping fairly recent events in our band history, the discussion is riddled with inaccuracies. For example, we played the newer 1986 version of “Dead Tomato” in discussing the original timeframe of that song and then reference a remake version that was recorded later... actually, we missed that that is the version we had played in the setup. There are a number of other mistakes, but I think those along with the detail covered for many of the early years is what makes this a great record.

As Spike points out in his Live to the Spirit World memoirs, this lecture played a critical role in The Blanks' history. We got a very warm reception from our fans and realized that there was still a thirst for our music – from us as much as the fans. Spike and Ed were making plans to start up a music project around this time and it just made sense for us all to focus effort on the greatest band that had existed to that point.

Finally, I want to thank the student body group – The Organization for the Appreciation of the Disco Train Donny Osmond Album – for hosting us.

– Kar

©1998-2008 The Blanks