Various Artists-Footprints of God (1988)
Artist: Variuos Artists (Master of the Obvious, Woodchipper, Eclectic Bitch, Isolation Farm, A Dying Gymnast)
Title: Footprints of God
Label: Tulpa Productions
Sell Date: 4/21/26
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 4/13/26 VG+/VG+ $4.00
Low: $3.00
Median: $4.46
Average: $5.82
High: $17.44
Current low price: $4.70 (Euro), $4.99 (US)
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10
Have/Want:86/30
Where Sold: DeKalb, IL
Time It Took To Sell: 11 years
Where and When Bought: Second Coming Cambridge MA late 80's
Gwiz-gau Grade: C+
Sad To See It Go: No
This 7" comp came from the Connecticut label Tulpa Productions. Willamantic to be exact where the Populous Pudding venue sprung up a year or two after. I bought this record because I had a great Masters of the Obvious single, so seeing that name made this an immediate snap-up flipping through Second Coming's tightly curated singles bin.
Masters of the Obvious AKA M.O.T.O aka Paul Caporino still exist to this day as a living, breathing, live performing entity based out of New Hampshire. Their latest is only a couple years old: Lewd, Crude and Obtuse. Same as it ever was.
Of the other bands, only Woodchipper put out an actual release which was also Tulpa released in 1990. Electric Bitch's drummer was in a bunch of bands notably Vermonster as well as Bimbo Shineheads. Mary Durnham from Isolation Farm--I know her as Mary Zadroga! She became "famous" later on in Jane Lee Hooker after I knew her from being in the Wives and Futurex who I put together bills with well after this early bass appearance. I would never had know if I didn't poke around the links of the players. That's the thing with punk rock and it's derivatives, there is always someone young with chapters to come and someone who had a past life like her then band member Carl Bentsen did with an early 80's band Separates that put out a single.
In some way a record like this is beyond criticism Someone wants to document their local scene and put out a single of some of the bands they like locally Said single finds it's way into a Boston area store, maybe physically brought there when one of the bands was playing nearby. Somebody with a radio show flips through the bin and saw one of the bands he had another record of in the lineup he liked and buys it. Maybe it got played on the radio in Worcester that summer it was purchased before being filed away and following the buyer in a box among boxes of singles from apartment to apartment to finally storage. The record sits in the persons NYC storage space for 16 years until it sells online, so then the record is given some new attention before it ships to the Midwest. Fortunately it is uploaded on the internets for some extra listening for this write-up since it went out in a 16 record order. While there might be a variation on this story for almost every single I write about here, this specific article can only be written about this specific record and hone in and pay more attention to the Isolation Farm song since Mary was in that band. To add another hilarious wrinkle, I think the last time I ran into her was on the street walking to the very East Village storage space where a record I didn't know at the time she played on would be unearthed a few years later and written about to connect all these dots from a record that I bought because Master of the Obvious were on it.
The standout track is still "Crystalize My Penis" by Masters of the Obvious.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Masters of the Obvious-Hammeroid! (1988)
Masters of the Obvious-I've Shot My Load...And I'm Ready For The Grave (1989)
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