Before they started publishing their music in 1972 - even before they were "The Residents" - the group (working with Snakefinger and the mysterious N. Senada) are created a number of ¼" reel-to-reel tapes. While some portions found their way to various collections over the years, the great-granddaddy of them all was the infamous Warner Bros Album.
The Warner Bros. Album was the group's first demo tape. They mailed it anonymously (they didn't have a name yet) to Harve Halverstadt at Warner Broth...
Before they started publishing their music in 1972 - even before they were "The Residents" - the group (working with Snakefinger and the mysterious N. Senada) are created a number of ¼" reel-to-reel tapes. While some portions found their way to various collections over the years, the great-granddaddy of them all was the infamous Warner Bros Album.
The Warner Bros. Album was the group's first demo tape. They mailed it anonymously (they didn't have a name yet) to Harve Halverstadt at Warner Brothers. Halverstadt was chosen because he had worked with Captain Beefheart, one of the group's musical heroes. The tape was returned with a rejection addressed to "Residents, 20 Sycamore St., San Francisco". This, of course, gave the group their name, which first appeared as "The Residents Uninc.", a fictional musical organization. The Residents maintain that Halverstadt made the right decision, because the album "sucked," but its place in Residential history is assured because of the role it played in the naming of the band.
It wasn't until 2004 that there was an official release, albeit in the heavily altered form of WB:RMX. A few of the tracks appeared in unremixed form on the ERA B474 / Delta Nudes compilation, but finally, in 2018, the original recording was released as part of Record Store Day, bearing the redacted title of The W***** B**** Album. In 2019 it was included as part of the 2CD set entitled "A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (1971-1972)." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
