TRACKLIST
A1 Wig
A2 Pillar Of Salt
A3 The Mysterious Ashley Bickerton
A4 The Man Who
B1 Gauntlet Of Wriggly's
B2 Eight Hour Religion
B3 Figure It Out For Yourself
B4 Dan Asher
C1 Cut It Up High Priest
C2 I Know
C3 Mockingbird
C4 Washington, D.C. 20013
D1 Bad Fool (Red Skelton)
D2 Life On The Streets
D3 Docktor Dhoom
D4 Drum Mode
E1 Sweetness Of The New
E2 Dan Asher (King Britt Mudd Club Mix)
E3 Sweetness Of The New (Free The Robots Remix)
E4 I Know (Tewz Remix)
E5 Bad Fool (Hank Shocklee Remix)
E6 Wig (Sal P. & Sean Bee Wigout)
F1 Doktor Dhoom (Todd Rundgren Remix)
F2 Drum Mode (Deantoni Parks & We Are Dark Angels Remix)
F3 Life On The Streets (Todd Rundgren Remix)
F4 Bad Fool (The Gaslamp Killer Revision)
DESCRIPTION
April 29th, 1979, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Michael Holman met for the first time at "The Canal Zone" party, and decided to start a band together. Gradually, they invited various Downtown artists to join the group; first Shannon Dawson, then Wayne Clifford, then Nick Taylor and eventually Vincent Gallo. In 1981, Basquiat named his industrial sound band, Gray. Jean named the band after Gray's Anatomy, an important reference source for his later paintings and the perfect name to capture the haunting, machine-like ambient music the band wrote and performed.
Gray’s “Shades Of... Anthology” is a reissue of the band’s previously limited self-released album, plus unreleased material and remixes from: Todd Rundgren, Hank Shocklee, King Britt, Sal P (Liquid Liquid), Deantoni Parks, Tewz, Free The Robots and The Gaslamp Killer with features from Amir Yaghmai and Kool Keith!