Alchemy Records : My Journey running a record label with Captain Beefheart's Mascara Snake.

Talking about my experience having a record label with Victor Hayden AKA The Mascara Snake, in the underground music scene of the 1980's in San Francisco. I discuss Victor's personality, our relationship, and also speak of further cosmic interventions with Victor that were beyond my control.
This will be of interest to Captain Beeffheart fans, and also fans of 1980's Bay Area underground music, and of course fans of RKL, Neurosis, Sacrilege BC, Melvins, Poison Idea, and Clown Alley. Enjoy !

All music excerpts in this video are from Alchemy Records releases with the exception of "Victor's Closet" from my "The Value of Decay LP which is currently licensed to Season of Mist. Link to the LP below.

00:00 Introduction
3:05 Building the Label
5:05 The Gilman Street Discovery
9:15 Absence Makes the Heart Grow Paranoid
12:36 Insights on Victor's personality
16:05 Melvins and Alchemy
17:35 Victor the Artist
19:04 23 years later "You have been delivered unto me"
26:42 7 more years later...
28:34 "I want to go out like Aschenbach"

Alchemy releases :

VM 101 : Clown Alley - Circus of Chaos
VM 102 : Sacrilege BC - Party With God
VM 103 : Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
VM 104 : RKL - RocknRoll Nightmare
VM 105 : Neurosis - Pain of Mind
VM 106 : Poison Idea - War All the Time

Mark Deutrom :
SOM448LP : Mark Deutrom - The Value of Decay
https://markdeutrom.bandcamp.com/albu...

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