Songs from Suicide Bridge —Eric Caboor & David Kauffman
$
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The disc and jacket are in good to very good condition. I played it infrequently as I had copied most of it to cassette. I am it’s original owner. The jacket shows some sign of ring ware and, as you can see, quite a bit of scuffing and some slight tears here and there. The disc, I suspect (I have no turntable!), is in much better shape than the jacket.
I have lowered the starting price on this item from $60. I won't lower it again.
Eric Caboor and David Kauffman were two hapless mid-80s LA singer songwriters who liked each other’s songs and who played to tiny audiences for free at places like the Basement in Echo Park. The Basement (literally a basement of a church) had one microphone round which the duo would sit and sing, making fun of themselves in between numbers. They were hilarious; the audience always took it for masterful schtick. After all, the songs (which they played and sang very well) were completely undeserving of their authors’ insults. The greater the audience, however, the more comical their self-loathing. I shared the bill with them a few times, splitting the fee 50/50. Backstage they revealed how they simply could not understand why anybody could enjoy a collection of songs that would soon be released under the title Songs From Suicide Bridge. That’s what I mean by hapless. In this instance, it is a synonym for authentic.
The album was recorded at Eric’s house on a four-track cassette port-a-studio and mixed at the late great Hillside Recording by Norman Stepanski. “He saved our project, man,” Eric told me when I had a project that also needed saving.
They should have gone Somewhere, these two. They were intense. They had talent. Hopefully it’s at least some solace that SFSB is now a highly sought collectors item. Maybe some re-issue label like Yoga Records will take the project under it’s wing. Till then, happy bidding.
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