Give these guys enough rope, and they'll hang up on you and run back to the 4-track recorder in the next room. Large Door isn't really the name of this group— they have no band name per se— but since Large Door was the title of the first tape they released, it'll do. Generally, their modus operandi is to strap on their guitars, push the Record button and jam. Then they listen. If they hear anything they like, they start adding layers... the next day... the next month... the next year. Large Door's output is spurty. It usually takes two or three years— sometimes longer— before a tape is deemed "done" and released.
~ Uncle Roy ~ January 2000
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LARGE DOOR
1986 / 60-min cassette tape
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IMPOTENT PERVERSE
1986 / 60-min cassette tape
Click on title to hear track 12: "Zone" mp3 (1:34)
Click on title to hear track 16: "Complications" mp3 (1:58)
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WHERE I BELONG
1989 / 60-min cassette tape
Click on title to hear track 38: "Hook & Pull" mp3 (1:28)
Messrs. Tim Noe, G. Don Trubey, and Michael Gitlin essay many different styles (all relatively in the same ballpark, but still jarring), like "Paleovista's" psych-Amon Duul II riffing, or like Cabaret Voltaire in a Little Italy pizzeria, or Pere Ubu with David Thomas out sick, with spiky Synclavier improvs, Hendrix feedback, and even a real hook now and then. What puts this loony soup across is the cheerily neurotic air these fellows have about them; it's obvious they're having fun. You will too.
~ Ken Egbert ~ OPTION Magazine ~ Sep/Oct 1989
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BARTON'S BAD TRIPS
1989 / 60-min cassette tape
I seem to be placed on an immence height, and the noise occasioned by the reiterated shouts of laughter and hallooing of the bystanders appeared to be far below me, and resembled the hum or buzz which aeronauts describe as issuing from a large city. I had a great fullness and distension in my head, and my thoughts and perceptions were rapid and confused. I fell into a trancelike state, vibrating between a waking consciousness and the torpor of sleep.
~ William P. C. Barton ~ 1808
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PARDON OUR APPEARANCE
1997 / 60-min cassette or CD
Click on title to hear track 10: "Confidential" mp3 (1:32)
Click on title to hear track 23: "Back to Bed" mp3 (2:02)