Bootstrappers (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Bootstrappers
Type = Album
Artist = Bootstrappers


Released = 1989
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Improvised music
Length = ~52:00
Label = New Alliance
Producer = Elliott Sharp, Mike Watt
Reviews =
*Allmusic (3/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:10:y1u36j3h71e0 link]

"Bootstrappers" is the eponymous, and only release by the Bootstrappers, a one-time ensemble of avant-garde guitarist Elliott Sharp and the Reactionaries/Minutemen/fIREHOSE rhythm section of bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley. The project recorded and released one full-length CD of improvised music, which was released on Watt's New Alliance Records label in 1989.

Track listing

#The Memory Is A Muscle – 3:36
#Spider Baby – 2:30
#New Boots – 1:05
#Taxista – 1:14
#Flicker – 1:39
#Third Rail – 2:08
#Media Dub – 8:00
#D-I-A-L-C-A-S-H – 4:10
#X/Delta – 2:52
#Their Faces Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue – 1:49
#Presidential Apology – 4:51
#Mud – 1:28
#Indeed – 1:31
#Empty-Vee – 3:39
#Long Beach Dub/Feen – 7:04
#Maneuvers – 4:59:All songs composed/credited to George Hurley, Elliott Sharp, and Mike Watt.

Musical Personnel

*Elliott Sharp - guitar, sampler
*Mike Watt - bass
*George Hurley - drums

Miscellanea

*On the album, Watt used a Guild Ashbory electric bass, an instrument the approximate size of a mandolin with rubber-band-like silicon strings.