Fabian Road Warrior is a great record. It was released by American, the same label that did Johnny Cash's last records. I bought a copy of it in 1997, I think, and fell in love. As all records do, however, it eventually fell out of rotation and I more or less forgot about Wesley Willis for a long time. Its still lying around somewhere. I gotta find it. A few days before leaving for the Stupid Desert Rave, one of my housemates reminded me of Wesley Willis and now I'm back on the wagon. There was a car shaped like a telephone playing "The Vultures Ate My Dead Ass Up" at Burning Man. I watched a documentary about him yesterday.
In addition to making Rad Art, Wesley Willis is teaching me a little bit. The man had focus. His work is ridiculously focused, to the point that, yes, all of his 100's of songs are in some way identical. Me, on the other hand, I make all sorts of different shit. I aspire to be more like Wesley Willis.
This song was improvised. I overdubbed cello and bells, and I like the way it sounds. I think the lyrics could be better. I wrote new ones but couldn't quite capture the spirit of the original performance, so here it is.
Wesley Willis Whopped My Ass.
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