Scraps
by Michael Galinsky
Paperback + CD.
ISBN 1-891241-09-5
Co-published by Tract Home Publications
and Sugar Free Records
Noted rock photographer and musician Michael Galinsky spent years touring the country with his band Sleepyhead--and he always had his camera close to hand. Scraps is a collection of black-and-white photos that document the places he's seen, floors they've crashed on, bands they've played with-plus friends and strangers they met along the way in the underground music community.
Galinsky's photographs merit comparison both to Robert Frank's "on the road" images in The Americans and to Nan Goldin's candid portraits of her intimate circle.
Those depicted include Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill (shown left), Yo La Tengo, Rodan, Come, Beat Happening, the Make Up, Kicking Giant, Slant 6, and many more. The book also includes writing by Tim Foljahn, Sam Lipsyte, Sean Meadows, Cynthia Nelson, Tara Key, Tae Won Yu, Chris O'Rourke, and others.
Many of Galinsky's music friends contributed rare/unreleased songs recordings to an hour-long CD that is packaged inside the book.
The track listing is as follows:
Dump - I Still Could Not Forget You Then Dungbeetle - Blow Hole
Love Child - Erotomania
El Inquilino Comunista - Shot Song
Ruby Falls - Special
Fly Ashtray - Twelve Bot
White Gravy - Citrus is in Season
Blazing Rains - Shareavision
Two Dollar Guitar - Turnaround
Sleepyhead - The Rocking Chair Murders
Antietam - 509
Kicking Giant - She's in Love
Fuck - Too Young
Sleepyhead - Untitled
King G and the J Crew - excerpt from Blackout
Drop Ceiling - Untitled
Everlasting the Way - A Polite Drunk
Yo La Tengo - Some Kinda Fatigue