A Drug Free America, by Schedule II

A Drug Free America

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Collage created in 1986 using low-fi noise rock as a sound bed to mildly edited transcripts of the speech that Nancy and Ronald Reagan delivered to the United States declaring "war on drugs".

The ensuing "war" wreaked havoc on our economy, crime rates, and created a prison industrial system that creates profits while destroying lives, primarily those of disadvantaged minorities.

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1984: Fresh out of my time playing hardcore punk rock guitar in Conflict (USA) I got together with some high school friends, former band-mates, in a lower eastside Tucson rental house bedroom for an impromptu drug fueled improv, capturing the high-volume-neighbors-calling-the-cops jams to tape using a Radio Shack Hi-Ball mic into a crappy tape deck. Despite Conflict, this really may have been the loudest I ever had my Marshall/Les Paul up. And Joel had a wall of bass cabs and Bruce was pounding a set of Billy Johnson's Rogers as hard as I had ever seen. Yes, drugs help. Drugs can be good.

Fall 1986: Ron and Nancy's upcoming speech was promoted heavily so I set up my cassette recorder diligently, capturing it in its entirety off the radio. I had acquired an early 4-track cassette tape recorder (Yamaha MT1X) a month before and this was one of the first compositions I created using it, using the above music as a sound bed, the Reagan tapes as source, and my BOSS analog delay for fun.

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released August 18, 2016

Bill Cuevas: Guitar, composition/tape editing
Joel Moore: space bass
Bruce Treadaway: drums

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Schedule II San Francisco, California

Tape, electronic, sound experiments, 1984-present.

Product of head injuries of varying severity spanning 60+ years.

Solo works of Bill C. (Conflict (US), Faith in Jones, Layer #7)

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