Fast Product

By James Dunn, Fulcrum Press:



Fast Product isn't an easy band to describe. And it's futile to compare them to any other band past present or future. You just can't box them in like that. And what's the point.what is "genre"? What is "music"? I mean I guess you could say they're Victor Borge meets Throbbing Gristle. Or Johnny Thunders meets Kin Korn Karn from the 8 bit Nintendo version of Pro Wrestling. Or, Wallace Shawn and Darby Crash sit down to lunch and order ball bearings and milk and their waiter is Laurie Anderson. Or, they're like an episode of Quantum Leap where you find out who Ziggy is and Ziggy is really Screaming Jay Hawkins.



Once I was walking in a park and I saw these birds splashing in the water and they turned and looked at me and I swear to god one of them said "Fast Product". The wind that day sounded like Samhain circa November Coming Fire (you know that one song Moribund? Like that.) and the sun shone down that day like Chip Davis of Manheim Streamroller. The crunch of the grass under my feet evoked a feeling of owning a rare 7-inch of the song "Fourteen Cheerleader Coldfront" where it's just Tobin Sprout playing the song on a squeeze box. The day after that felt kind of like Fast Product sounds.