Note 3: Randy Holden deserves to go down in history not for what he achieved but for what he WISHED to achieve. Those good people of Hobbit records who couldn’t even get the times right musta been using the Victorian Long-minute. Note 2: If any of you lucky suckers with a copy of POPULATION 2 have noticed that my song times above differ from those credited on Randy’s LP sleeve, well excuse me, but my times (though shorter) are correct, babbies. That the artist himself believed POPULATION 2 to have never been commercially released is weird enough, but the betrayal of this supreme guitar hero by his management by the impounding and selling of all his equipment on the eve of POPULATION 2’s release is a tragedy of titanic proportions, especially when both Randy’s guitar AND his beloved Sunn amplifiers could, in his unique case, be considered to have been his muse above any female in his life. Note: In the wake of the cryptic allusions to this record on the ROME WASN’T BURNED IN A DAY album cover, and its being blasted over the speakers throughout those ROME shows plus Ethan Miller from Comets on Fire’s hecking me to give it an Album of the Month slot, it seemed like a good time to tell this sad sad tale.
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