Releases


These are, as far as I know, all releases by John Bender. If you got more info, please me, and I'll get back to you.
The credits mentioned on this page are copied straight from the covers and/or liner notes. You can see a bigger image of each album sleeve and record label by clicking the sleeves below. There are no large images of the cassettes available. There's not much to see on a cassette spine, anyway. ;-)


Vinyl releases


Sleeve I DON'T REMEMBER NOW
1978 - Record Sluts 002

Credits:
john bender: voice electronics, w&m.
jack gorski: wds 36a2, 36a3, 31a4; mus 36a2
RON HAMMAD: ENG
FAUST: WDS & MUS ON 27B4 INTERSONG PUBL

    side one:
  • 36A2 (excerpt)
  • 35B1
  • 27B4
  • 35A9
    (run out groove area reads: 003101X A QCA RS)

    one side:
  • 36A3
  • 31A4
  • 33A1
    (run out groove area reads: 003101X B QCA RS)



Sleeve PLASTER FALLING
1981 - Record Sluts 003

Credits:
John Bender: vocals, instrumenst, words, music, production and selection
Vicki Mansoor: cover technology and label design
Ron Hamad and Jaroslav Studenka: engineering and treatment (i.e., reproduction) onto mastering tape at WGUC studios
Bob Seitz: mastering
Pressed at QCA
plaster falling consists of material from tapes 34 to 45 and was recorded between mid-1979 and mid-1981
advice and assistance on this and preceding album: Baierschmidt, Radcliff, Schowinsky, Spenlau and Whitson... Thankyou
(...)
to all the dead groups I love so much - jb 7/81

    neither side:
  • 43B6 Station
  • 42B4 Plaster
  • 39A4 Women
  • 45A2 People
    (run out groove area reads: 106064 X NEITHER SIDE QCA RS)

    nor side:
  • 39A5 Something (excerpt)
  • 35B5 Records
  • 34B1 Knuckles
  • 38A1 Cities
  • 45A1 Street
    (run out groove area reads: 106064 X NOR SIDE QCA RS)



Sleeve POP SURGERY
1983 - Record Sluts 004

Credits:
john bender: words, music, electronics, vocals, production
max bender: background vocals 68-1 and 68-3, keyboard solo 68-1
recorded upstairs
mastered and pressed at QCA
package design & tech: patrick spenlau
material on this album is gleaned from tapes 53 thru 68
and was conceived in 1982 and the 1st quarter of 1983
thanks, bernd

    A:
  • 54-2 Meat
  • 65-2 Galacial
  • 60-1 Thought
  • 60-2 Mallinder
  • 60-3 Hand
  • 60-4 Day
    (run out groove area reads: 311013 X A QCA)

    B:
  • 57-1 Dance (excerpt)
  • 67-4 Glass
  • 53-2 Blue
  • 68-1 Cows
  • 68-2 Amalgamelon
  • 68-3 Unrelated
    (run out groove area reads: 311013 X B QCA)




Sleeve ON RECORD
1981 - C.C.G./C.A.G.E. Records 106017
Cincinnati Composers' Guild/Cincinnati Artists' Group Effort

Credits:
Too much to publish here, but in the liner notes John writes:
(...) THOUGH LOFTY AMBITIONS OF FAME HAVE LONG FADED, THE CHALLENGE EXCESSIVENESS
PRESENTS TO DAILY COHERENCE REMAINS AS VIABLE AND EXCITING ESPECIALLY WHEN
EXPRESSED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF A WELL STRUCTURED BUT INDESCRIBABLE AESTHETIC.
(...) MUSIC IS MATHEMATICAL/EMOTIONAL ENDEAVOUR WHICH UPLIFTS AS WELL AS EDUCATES.


    C.C.G. Side
  • Gerhard Samuel The Percussion Group: "Circles"
  • David Landes Drucker/Johnathan Pegis: "Elegy for Cello and Piano"
  • Martin Sweidel: "Split Shot Study No. 1"
  • Henry Gwiazda: "Say Watt?"
    (run out groove area reads: KM/DAS QCA 106017XA CCG/CAGE I)

    C.A.G.E. Side
  • Jay Bolotin: "Serpent Sun"
  • Jan Harrison: "Animal Tongue"
  • Thom Middlebrook: "Five Guidelines For an Emotional Breakdown"
  • Kip Eagen: "The Tinkers Trouble"
  • Hudson/Buzz Tone Outlet: "Love Answered Phone"
  • John Bender: "Decomposition"
  • Art Holes: "Experimental Animals"
  • Victoria Mansoor: "Two hours playing time" (sleeve drawing)
    (run out groove area reads: DAS/KM QCA 106017XB CCG/CAGE I)



Cassette releases


PACKING LIST:1982
Cassette re-release. Probably 1995.
Original released in 1982 (?).
1. SHORT SIDE
2. This tape's title
3. came from the fact
4. that original versions
5. were packaged
6. without plastic cases,
7. in oiled envelopes
8. that opened at the narrow end,
9. had bendable metal clasps,
10. were used to hold
11. shipping documentation,
12. and were labeled
13. PACKING LIST. 		LONG SIDE
1. In this tape,
2. as in others,
3. my intent was
4. to create a sequence
5. of sound events
6. to be used as
7. an undercurrent
8. to social intercourse.
9. Not intended as MUSAK,
10. nor Eno's ambience,
11. nor Satie's furniture music,
12. its purpose was
13. to weave itself
14. in and out of
15. conversation and play
13. a more active role
14. in human interaction.


PLASTER: the prototypes
Cassette release. 19??
Contains the original, usually longer, versions of most songs that appear on the Plaster Falling LP, and other material from the same period. The titles may differ, but the track numbers (43b5, etc) match the Plaster Falling album.
1. 43b5 meeting station
2. 39a5 i want to be loved for it
3. 38a1 cities of the plain
4. 45a1 walk down wet street
5. 45a2 people feeling
6. 39a4 women
7. 42b4 plaster
8. 43a4 nervous 		1. 39a7 philosophy
2. 37a1 i know
3. 34b1 before you
4. 38a5 reason
5. 35b6 NO2U (excerpt)
6. 38a5 reason2
7. 35b5 understood



Do the cage. 1983.
Cassette (re-)release. 19??
Contains some original, sometimes longer, versions from Pop Surgery tracks and other material.
1. this tape was created
2. as an audio installation
3. intended as audio atmosphere
4. intended to cloud thought
5. intended to divert
6. intended to distract
7. from more important issues
8. intended to act
9. as a swarm of gnats
10. formless enough
11. to allow focus
12. varied an abrupt enough
13. to catch the ear 		1. this was accomplished
2. with a pair of speakers
3. an amplifier
4. a cassette player
5. some speaker wire
6. an extension chord
7. if only i had had
8. an extended
9. endless tape
10. it would
11. have been more fun
12. even



At the 4th St. CAGE: 1/83
Cassette re-release, probably 1995
Contains some original, sometimes longer, versions from Pop Surgery tracks and other material.
1. This is a sound collection
2. presented for sale at a
3. money making function of the
4. Cincinnati Artists Group Effort
5. grass roots artist's group
6. that still exists to this day
7. allowing me to put my
8. music out to the public without
9. judgement or evaluation
10. as workable an environment
11. as one could hope for.
12. I was very fortunate.
13. I am very grateful. 		1. At the 4th St Cage continued,
2. followed by a
3. JOHNNY VORTEX TRAILER TAPE
4. we used at performances
5. where access to
6. the performance space required
7. use of an elevator. we stuck this
8. endless tape in a boom box
9. placed it on top of the elevator
10. so customers would become
11. auditorily prepped for what was
12. about to happen.
13. It was a lot of fun to do these.
14. Except for the Cincinnati
15. performance, we had to set up
16. our performance in unfamiliar
17. spaces and situations.
18. We had to be flexible.


Johnny Vortex
Cassette release, 19??
John Bender, Kate Gallion, Jason Tannen.
Soundtrack to theatre performance.
THE CASSETTE (1985)
intro
cast of characters
the deal
shoes
phone
weasel
laundry list
psycho 		THE CASSETTE (continued)
run to rapture
carnival
the interview
postscript

THE AUDIO OF THE VIDEO (1986)
intro
i shot him
psycho
phone sex
draw you a picture
outro - credits



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