V/A feat. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Mike Edison: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go… [Hardback] (BOOK, US)

Photo Credit: Jackie Roman “A good gorilla is hard to find.” – from the I HAVE FUN EVERYWHERE I GO paperback release party.

Jon Spencer has appeared on the (Mike) Edison Rocket Train releases This Train, Yes!, Yes!!, Yes!!! , East River Delta, I Walked With a Zombie , the I Have Fun Everywhere I Go soundtrack to the book and they both appear on the Speedball Baby track from Salvo of 24 Gunshots and the Lost Crusaders album.

Michael Lavine filmed a Mike Edison and the Interstellar Rendezvous Band (featuring Jon Spencer on guitar). The songs are based on the book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! and videos of Hugh Hefner Hates Girls and Do Right Man (Dirty Blues) can be seen on the Delta Science youtube.com account.

Mike Edison receives a credit for ‘The Good Word’ on Damage and has worked with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “as their “Minister of Information,” writing the band’s press releases and industry propaganda, fan communiqués, and dedicated web copy.” along with the extensive sleeve notes for the 2010 deluxe releases of Year One, Extra Width + Mo’ Width, Orange + Experimental Remixes, Now I Got Worry, Controversial Negro, Acme + Acme Plus and Dirty Shirt Rock N Roll: The First Ten Years.

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“GIRLIE ACTION
Media and Marketing

Mike Edison
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go:
Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World

New Album and memoir from notorious pornographer and punk (May 20th, Interstellar Roadhouse)

Girlie Action is absolutely thrilled to present Mike Edison: pornographer, punk-rocker, pro-wrestler, former publisher of “that dope rag” High Times magazine, and chronicler of Bourbon Street strippers, nymphomaniac housewives, and motorcycle daredevils for such outlaw broadsides as Penthouse and Hustler. As he confesses gleefully in the lead-off track of his new spoken-word album (produced by Jon Spencer), “That’s not a résumé, that’s a crime scene.”

Edison has distilled over two decades of his illicit adventures into his new memoir, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World (Faber and Faber), and this beatnik bop and punk-rock boogaloo companion piece of the same name.

Tales of going undercover to Jews for Jesus bible meetings collide head-on with an edgy eulogy for Edison’s friend and former bandmate GG Allin. “Pornography, Part I” recounts Edison’s stint as editor-in-chief of filth-bible Screw magazine, and includes an explicit recap of “Omar’s Anal Adventures,” as well as an over-the-top bashing of George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Madonna, and more. Not content with taking on the US Government, Edison enters an epic (and side-splitting) feud with “self-righteous do- gooder” Hulk Hogan. (“Frankly,” says Edison, “he’s just not my kind of people.”) Finally, Ozzy Osborne shows up to steal Edison’s pot, and he tells the laugh-a-minute story with obvious delight, pummeling his stoned ex-colleagues at High Times.

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go the album is rife with Jon Spencer’s sonic hoodoo: fuzz guitars and blues explosions, science-fiction synthesizers, swirling church organs, howling spookhouse theremins percolate behind Edison’s hilarious, no-holds-barrred storytelling and greasy sidewalk preaching. A sick brew of Lenny Bruce and Jack Kerouac, with high notes of Tom Waits, Sun Ra, and Richard Pryor, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go marks a revolutionary turn for the spoken word record.

Catch Mike Edison live, performing tracks from the record! See reverse for dates!

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