BURROUGHS WITH MUSIC （79） Dub Spencer & Trance Hill／WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IN DUB－その2

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Dub Spencer & Trance Hill／WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IN DUB ［Echo Beach］ release 2014


Art Work : Ben Hito

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01. Burroughs Called the Law

from Burroughs Called the Law (rec.1960s). IN : William S. Burroughs／BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM



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1発目は、Burroughsの朗読でのオリジナル作品から。最初期のBurroughs朗読だ。

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Burroughs called the law.

With his last mooched nickel Burroughs sneaked off to the payphone and called the law. Of all the cheap lousy tricks, Burroughs, to call the law on your old friends.

Another…We had a good thing here Burroughs, good for another, maybe, fifty thousand years and you, you cheap little rat, called the law so now we all have to pay.

How you ever got to that phone beats the shit out of me. We had you covered, pegged out, cooled, knocked out, blued, greened, the lot. Where is Mary Cooke? Who let this little bastard get to that phone?

Of all the cheap tricks Burroughs, of all the lousy grassy rat tricks; with your last mooched nickel from Gysin; Burroughs called the law.

So now we all have to pay. Smart little bastard standing there with his pockets inside out. Very funny, Burroughs, very funny.

Sooner or later some mark we thought we had cooled or some little rat like Burroughs sneaks off and calls the heat on all of us. Now, Burroughs - you know why we never liked you? You and Gysin, what was wrong with both of you from the jump? Wrong bastards, wrong copper loving bastards.

Wise up the marks - Willie the rat has done it again. But how, how, how? Where was everybody when he sneaked off to that phone?

OK?

from William S. Burroughs／Burroughs Called the Law (rec.1960's). IN : BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM [Sub Rosa] release 1986

引用元 ：
・Song Meanings > Artists > W > William S. Burroughs > Burroughs Called the Law （as of 2018/01/01）
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859432680/

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前半にBurroughsの朗読を入れ、後半はDubが続く。このアルバムはこういうパターンが続く。主役はDubで、朗読はネタの一つという感じ。大ネタだが。

とにかくcoolなBurroughsの朗読が、もうたまらない。初期の朗読はぎこちなくはあるが、特にcool。場慣れしすぎた感もある後期の朗読にはない、独特の魅力がある。

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後半、Burroughsの朗読を断片的に注入し、うめき声のように使っている。これも効果的。

丁寧かつ素晴らしい出だしだ。1曲目から名作の予感。