Gaylor, Bobby - Fuzzatonic Scream

Name: Bobby Gaylor
Album: Fuzzatonic Scream
Year: 2000
Style: Spoken Word, Stories
Similar Bands: Jim Carroll, Dennis Leary
"One-Word" Review: Wankery Stories set to acoustic jazz
Based Out Of: Boston, MA
Label: Atlantic, WEA,

Cover, Lyrics, Back, CD Tray

Liner Notes, Pics, CD, CD back

Fuzzatonic Scream (2000)

1. Suicide - 6:27 (single)
2. One Moment 4:17
3. Hit a Guy With My Car 5:52
4. Smelt 4:03
5. Tommy the Frog Killer 8:08
6. Animals 5:48
7. Out the Window 6:06
8. Masturbation 4:20
9. Business End of a Gun 9:19
10. Suicide (Non-Explicit Version) 5:21

Album Rating (1-10): 2.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Bobby Gaylor - Words & Music
• Marc Bonilla - Producer, Arrangement, Music, Instruments (California Transit Authority, Keith Emerson Band, John Debney, Kevin Gilbert, Thomas Lang, Eddie Jobson, James Newton Howard, 3rd Matinee, Glenn Hughes, Masahiro Andoh, Lyden Moon, Eric Westphal, Jordan Rudess, Steve Porcaro)
• Don C Tyler - Mastering
• Michael Scott - Music, Instruments (Jeff Scott Soto, Koobaatoo Asparagus / Oasis of the Zombies)
• Bob Birch - Bass
• Joii Goodman - Backing Vox
• Nick Casinelli - A&R
• Doug Buttleman - Mgmt
• Elliot Groffman - Legal
• Jeff Newton - Production Manager
• Richard Bates - Art Direction
• Martin Ogolter - Art Direction & Design
• Gregg Roth - Cover Photo
• Michael Tweed - Photos
• Christian Staehr - Photos

Unknown-ness: I've never heard of this artist, but the photos make him look like an aging hipster, possibly an old punk frontman going out solo. Kind of an Elvis Costello vibe if he were trying to start a career in the 00's. The goatee screams some sort of previous life in rockabilly or ska.

Album Review: This is a bunch of self-wankery stories that the listener may or may not be able to associate with. Not poetry, more story slam songs with a noticeable Boston accent. The music accompanying the songs is a little jazzy maybe, but mostly generic acoustic Dave Matthews-y. Suicide is in poor taste, as half the monologue is about taking your life, and the other is about what you'd miss. And I had to skip past Tommy the Frog Killer...but i can guess where it was going.

Gaylor is an all-around media arts guy, including actor and stand up who moved from Boston to LA for his writing gig for the TV show Rosanne. He also voiced Buford van Stomm & wrote for Disney Channel's Phineas & Ferb. 

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