LINER NOTES from the limited LP

I took a hit of good L.S.D. on my way to do my radio
show (KUNV's The Chemical Lounge) one night. The
Necessary Evils were scheduled to arrive and play a
set over the Las Vegas airwaves. It was to promote
their show the next day at The Underground record
store and their upcoming debut LP "Spider Fingers" for
In The Red Records. At midnight these Rat Fink
looking motherfuckers finally got to the studio. One
of these aliens said that they had been on the road
for the last three days and had been up on crystal
meth the entire time. Their hair was all kindsa messy,
their eyeballs were bugging the fuck out and they were
ready to rip our goddamn heads off.

They got set up in a room barely big enough to hold
the three of them. The room was hot. Really fucking
hot. The Necessary Evils, Steve Pallow on vocals and
rhythm guitar, James Arthur on lead guitar, and Kyle
Hall on drums proceeded to not only rip our heads off,
bu! t they melted the faces on our decapitated heads off
as well. I can barely believe I'm alive enough to be
writing this. That night Las Vegas was privy to some
sounds that it will never likely hear again. There was
this sound... like a garbage truck... dropped off the
Empire State Building...

The recording from this legendary session is far
from perfect. The Maxell XLII cassette tape used to
document this performance was unfortunately started
about 10 seconds into the set. Even funnier is that
the tape ENDED about 10 seconds before the the band
ended! I guess you could liken this to a liverwurst
sandwich with a heapin' helpin' of hot sauce. These
flaws, however, were remedied during the mastering and
I think the result is acceptable, if not quite
pleasing. Especially if you don't have one of those
automatic turntables where the tone arm returns at a
certain point (BEWARE!). Despite any other technical
flaws, this recording h! as many important elements that
I think are lacking on other Necessary Evils
recordings which warrants this release. Kyle's drums
are magnificently pummeling. There's something about
the name "trap kit" that is easily visualized when
you're caged by his menacing beats. Steve's vocal
phrasing is a perfect aural display of his depraved
sense of humor, without which the Necessary Evils
couldn't exist. He also gives as soulful a performance
as you're ever likely to hear on a "punk" record. You
can tell how wasted James is too, which is always a
bonus.

I decided to air the master cassette about a year
after this night at the end of one of my radio shows.
Three days later I recieved news that all rock
programming had been indefinitely suspended from KUNV.
I couldn't have picked a better, more fucked up way to
end my 6 year run as a DJ over there.

- Bazooka Joe

Originally aired May 02, 1997