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Charlie Nothing Exclusive

March 2011

Images courtesy the archives of Byron Coley and Clint Simonson
Images courtesy the archives of Byron Coley and Clint Simonson
Images courtesy the archives of Byron Coley and Clint Simonson
Images courtesy the archives of Byron Coley and Clint Simonson
Images courtesy the archives of Byron Coley and Clint Simonson

Listen to an excerpt of Charlie Nothing & Dingulator, courtesy of De Stijl Records. Charlie is featured in Byron Coley's Cross Platform article in The Wire 326.

"Charlie Nothing & Dingulator was one of the seemingly myriad 80s Charlie Nothing cassettes and its inclusion was, in part, intended within a 2CD anthology that we'd planned, but the amount of material is too great and the moments therein are too grand to even dream of an edit. Although this is fairly late in Mr Nothing's oeuvre, we can't think of a more fully realised statement regarding the scope of his playing recycled automotive steel guitars and the performing of his Big Dingulator Song Sweet (or 'suite', as it were, a concept of his that implied all songs were but one song) than a reissue of this 1985 manifesto-like piece. What you are about to hear, is Dingulation." Clint Simonson – De Stijl Records

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I met Charlie Nothing in the 80s at the Santa Cruz Swap Meet. Every weekend, I would walk past his booth which was fronted by amazing dingulators. He was fearsome looking and non communicative. One day, I worked up the courage to speak with him. I asked him how much he wanted for a dingulator. Over the next few months, we began to chat. I was working on a multimedia Art project, the Million Dollar Flea Market. I eventually interviewed him for this project at his home which was a unique gypsy caravan. I own his psychedelic motorcycle
tank painted and signed by him.

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