Talk:Mark of the Mole

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Notes From Ralph

"The Residents kind of saw themselves as being extremely underground for the first, um... ten years of their existence, and then, ultimately, The Cryptic Corporation, um, found, uh... um... L.A. management for them, a company called Lookout Management. And Lookout Management was... was a really big, um, L.A. company, they were at that time managing... Devo, I think, and, uh... and then there... that was the younger guy, the older guy there was managing Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, ultimately I think they may have managed Bob Dylan for a while... um... and a lot of other groups of that era. And so... and they were the ones who put the Mole Show tour together for The Residents."

"And so they kind of felt like at that point they were going to be coming out of the underground, and kind of out into more... uh, you know, real life, whatever. Um, and in a way, they sort of saw themselves as the Moles... and, uh, you know, coming out from underground, and they kind of saw the Chubs as... everybody else. Um... and... so, that's kind of the way they... they saw it, and that was kind of in some ways the sort of... conceptual... conceptual basis for the album."

- Homer Flynn, Classic Gamer 74, Episode 61, February 23rd 2019

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 08:52, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

"Well, actually, the black vinyl came out first on Mark of the Mole... Because we had pressed the brown vinyl... but everything got screwed up. So, I mean... we sent in production orders for a thousand brown vinyl records, and five thousand black vinyl records. And we sent them all these beautiful silkscreen covers, that cost a fortune to put together. And what they did is they put black vinyl records in the silkscreen covers, and brown vinyl records into the regular covers, and basically destroyed all the covers, because... they heat shrink-wrap them, and you can't do that to silkscreen. So, we found this out sort of instantly, and we had to sit there and cut apart every record. Sent everything back and had them all redone. So the black vinyl records that were not in the silkscreen covers, we distributed instantly. They were the first thing. Of course, the people who bought mail-order, who wanted the brown vinyl, of course, they had to wait at that point, because... Well, we salvaged a few, maybe, for mail-order, I can't even remember... There were always problems. There were problems... with picture discs, and things like that. I mean, you try to make special records, it's just a pain."

- Tom Timony, "Ep 137: Ralph Records with Tom Timony", The Vinyl Guide, September 10th 2018

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 16:37, 23 June 2023 (UTC)