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Nuclear War

by Joe Diddley

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This is a recording of live and loud electric and acoustic pained guitar droning and noise over a soundscape of nuclear war-themed samples from 1950's Civil Defense movies, United Nations hearings, interviews with Edward Tellar, and nuclear tests. It's the kind of thing that frightened me as a young child and is now, unfortunately, frightening me again. I first recorded this in 2002 and released it on 3" CD-R, but have updated and re-released for free on the eve of our new arms race.

Review of the original release:
"This year's soundtrack to drinking away the nightly news. It’s starting to feel like the day before 'The Day After' again. Fortunately, Joe Diddley has been doing the worrying for us for many years now. While we were happily skipping through the Clinton administration, getting more piercings and armband tattoos while polishing our fashionably nihilist rhetoric, Joe still realized that death by radiation poisoning will suck just as much now as it would have in 1984 (book or anno). The guitar attack is a series of smeary stabbing motions, often two or three at once. Although some fancy pedals are utilized, this is no Henry Kaiser digital wank-a-thon. No way, it’s the blues! Not "Blues Club" blues, but can’t-get-out-of-bed blues. To quote a recent Jandek song title, it’s blues turned black." -C.M. Sienko

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released February 11, 2019

Joe Diddley: acoustic and electric guitars, production
Our Assholes in Chief: mutually assured destruction

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Joe Diddley Uranium City, Saskatchewan

Twanging a single string for truth, justice, and the downtrodden, Joe Diddley reconstituted the dormant Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force and began broadcasting strange blues recordings along the defunct Distant Early Warning radar installations near the arctic circle in 1958. ... more

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