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Ineresting Thoughts and Retrospect...
The First release as Skarekrau Radio on Wiggpaw's CumSun label (and this is it's only release)
in 1993. Skarekrau Radio stemed off the band of a simular name "Scarecrow Radio" in which wiggpaw played guitar. Once
the band fizzled Wiggpaw called his recording projects "Fear of Cows" but after thinking it was kinda dumb decided to
go back to being called Scarecrow Radio since the other members didn't use it and Wiggpaw likes the way it rolls.
When this was decided Wiggpaw told his buddy the El Shorty on a CTA bus what the name of his band was he sneezed at that same
instant. IT came out "ScarAaaaca!Chu! Radio" and the El Shorty thought it was wonderful.. So To the best of Wiggpaw's
ablities tryed to spell it like the way he sneezed it came up with "Skarekrau Radio" and later the name of the god "Kuu".
It was a moment on that bus that started a revolution that Wiggpaw had no idea. Kuu had found Wiggpaw. Kuu had
found Wiggpaw!!! Anyway, the Cover art is a drawing by Abby Ripstra. Other art work was done by Jen Hauser and
Wiggpaw himself. There is even a liner note by Tom McTighe in there. CumSun was a cassette label Wiggpaw
started and dreamed of releasing old basement tapes and bathroom crooning. Wanted recordings of bugs and
thunderstorms. Wanted them to be all purpose. Wiggpaw played some of these songs live in bars on open mic nights.
Later played Czar Bar a couple times trying to pawn this tape. Interesting fact is that "Scissor Girl" later became
"Myspace Girl" on "The One Eyed Swine Is Queen". The Scissor Girls were a rad band in Chicago around the time Wiggpaw
lived in Chicago..a bitter sweet homage if you will...not to say the wildly popular personal socal web site is in any
way like the Sissor Girls, it just seemed like the lyrics were pretty interchangable. Before the song was called "Sissor Girl"
it was called "Indigo Girl."
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