Dudes on Drugs

Dudes on Drugs was a Los Angeles free improvisational music experiment, recorded in 1982. The music was recorded on primitive cheap equipment in the living room of a house in Santa Monica's Rustic Canyon over many nights. Among more traditional instruments the recordings used such exotica as telephone, vacuum cleaner and typewriter to produce sound.

The project was inspired by the idea that one should be able to create art out of any materials at hand and record it on any equipment available. Initially there were some vinyl records pressed and sold until they were gone. Then the project was abandoned, and the master tapes were lost. In 2015 the tapes were located and they yielded not only the original Dudes on Drugs album, but also a second album culled from the original sessions. Both are available exclusively here not just as streams but also as free downloads.