Bootstrappers (album) explained

Bootstrappers
Type:	Album
Artist:	Bootstrappers
Cover:	Bootstrappers.jpg
Released:	1989
Recorded:	1989
Genre:	Improvised music
Length:	~52:00
Label:	New Alliance
Producer:	Elliott Sharp, Mike Watt
Next Title:	Gi=Go
Next Year:	1992

Bootstrappers is the first release by the Bootstrappers, which at the time featured guitarist Elliott Sharp and the Reactionaries/Minutemen/Firehose rhythm section of bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley.^[1]

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

After this album, bassist Mike Watt was replaced by bassist Thom Kotik and drummer George Hurley was replaced by drummer Jan Jakub Kotík.

Track listing

1. The Memory Is A Muscle – 3:36
2. Spider Baby – 2:30
3. New Boots – 1:05
4. Taxista – 1:14
5. Flicker – 1:39
6. Third Rail – 2:08
7. Media Dub – 8:00
8. D-I-A-L-C-A-S-H – 4:10
9. X/Delta – 2:52
10. Their Faces Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue – 1:49
11. Presidential Apology – 4:51
12. Mud – 1:28
13. Indeed – 1:31
14. Empty-Vee – 3:39
15. Long Beach Dub/Feen – 7:04
16. 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olewnick. Brian. Bootstrappers. www.allmusic.com. All Music. April 2, 2016.