Amsterdam

"AMSTERDAM...begins a new decade, and a feverish furor of disgust, angst, and a mysterious love triangle at a local concrete company which resulted in the deaths of 114 people and put me in the hospital for nine dog-years...ON this major release, all sorts of bombs get dropped, a few big stars get their asses drug through the mud...and we look at themes of death, green stockings, the reverend jim jones sings at the end of 'the voices of men'...there's 3 "V-3" tracks (minus the charming roxanne)...2 leonard cohen songs, a V.U. classic, (recorded at a gyro joint which masquerades as a 'live' venue!)...a 'live' eric the swede track which originally appeared on the classic 'YOU ARE YOU' tape (which funny enough was the first cassette of this variety ever to be reviewed in the glammy SPIN ragazine...thanx guccione)..the 'jet magazine interview', to this point, was un-released...mostly due to licencing/threat of a law-suit, etcetera...this is tape #1 in a series of shepard & company related tracks, 80 to 90% of them un-released."