Talk:The Delta Nudes

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Notes From Ralph

"It's just one of these things where I happened to be in the right place, I guess, at the right time, knowing people and hanging out with people who seemed interesting at the time, who were trying to do recordings and who had a tape recorder. There was a problem of not having enough hands to turn everything on and off, and I was always a sucker for equipment, so I started turning tape recorders on and off, and it just grew out of that. This was in San Mateo."

- Hardy Fox, JJJ Interview, 1982

Cosmichobo1 _(Admin) (talk) 16:57, February 18 2023

"I think in the early times, maybe their humor was more blatant, and they kind of felt like they were getting labelled as the "Spike Jones of rock and roll" or whatever. And they weren't really like that, they just felt like that element was being singled out too much in a way that they didn't really relate to. And so I think consequently their humor became more subtle, but nonetheless it's definitely there."

"...on one hand, they were so unskilled musically, they kind of felt like 'well, nobody's going to take us that seriously anyway,' you know, in terms of like a record label, 'so we really have to do this ourselves'. And in retrospect, there's a lot of plus to that, and there's a certain downside too... Well, unfortunately you have to do it all, but at the same time there can be a certain advantage to having bigger companies with more resources invested in your product. That can give it more exposure and that can give it more longevity, so it's not like working with a big company is necessarily a bad thing."

- Homer Flynn, Industry Tactics with Friendly Rich, "Ep. 145 - Homer Flynn", February 13th 2022

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 09:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

"There were four guys from Louisiana, and they came out to California in the late '60s, and... started doing some weird stuff together, and hated their day jobs and... had a little niche... They started doing music in... probably late '68, '69, '70, but... very, uh... non-musicianship music, let's say. And it sort of developed because some people just have natural talent, and, you know, that's what I found when I got there, that these people just had no idea what they were doing, but they were doing it."

"I mean, they were into Dadaism and stuff... I mean, they went through the sixties, so they were sixties children who came to the summoning of San Francisco, and just... you know, they weren't your traditional hippies, they were from the South. So... they brought sort of different customs than, you know, other people from New York or something would have brought... And one of them actually did some recording and stuff in Texas in the mid-sixties and things, so... you know, he had some knowledge about physically... putting music onto magnetic tape and things... and had probably different ideas, because, you know... everybody in the sixties including The Beatles and everybody else, and then synthesizers came along, and the Maharishi, and this and that... everybody sort of joined the trip at some point, to just see, 'oh, do I like this?'... So, you know, they took their values out of that Southern thing, and then put it together with all this mish-mash of music, and then... that "Southern singing sound guy"... that was very unique to me."

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

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 16:33, 23 June 2023 (UTC)