Greetings Commrades,
This Saturday marks a large event for the Communist Day Care Center. It is the day it becomes real.
Sometime circa 1995 I borrowed a handful of metal CDs from a friend of mine. There was one I liked in particular more than the rest, but I didn't know what disc it was, as for some reason this one had no booklet or backing in it's case. The only clue I had was that the CD itself had a lyric on it, "You cannot sedate all the things you hate." Shortly after the last song ended came the voice of a woman yelling "Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some Communist Day Care Center. Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I HATE YOU!!!" I soon found out that the CD in question was Marilyn Manson's Portrait Of An American Family, and many years later I found out that the woman yelling was a sample from the John Waters movie Desperate Living.
From that point on every artistic or creative thing I did came with the moniker CDCC ProDuctions. At one point I wanted to be a filmmaker. Those videos I hope to someday get digitized and uploaded like Radiator, The Most Artistic Movie Ever, and Alien Incident In Rochester all are CDCC ProDuctions. Those qbasic and megazuex video games I programmed were all CDCC ProDuctions as well.
Fast forward a bunch of years to the summer of 2009. I've been through the ringer of playing in the local scene and had been burnt out for a while. In the interim I went back to school for music education. After a few years of that intense schedule I was burning out on that as well. I decided that it was time to record the music that I had written over the years. As I neared the completion of the album I realized that I needed a mode to put it out. I had ins to a local label and asked about it, but there didn't seem to be a whole lot of interest. Who could blame them. I didn't play out often and honestly I am a much stronger performer now than I used to be. If I were them I would have been wary as well. I cam to find out later that if I had done a bit more asking and pushing I probably could have been on that label, but I'm the kind of guy that the second he hits any kind of resistance says 'Fuck you! I'll do it myself!', and thus Communist Day Care Center was reborn. This time as a record label.
To start I put out The Day After Labor Day, which is the DandyLyon Whine (my) release. I also "reissued" the back catalog of a band I used to be in, Shell, in order to give the label some ballast when it came to releases. In the summer of 2010 I put out an EP by a side project I am in, JFnK, titled Back And To The Left.
So far, I have been a primary musician for every project on Communist Day Care Center. That changes this Saturday with Dinosaur Monster's eponymous release. I recorded and mixed the album and besides being the first release that doesn't feature me as a primary player, it is the most involved recording project I have ever taken part in. I am very proud of it.
For more than the last fifteen years, what the term Communist Day Care Center meant to me, and most people around me, was a vanity title put on to projects to make them seem more meaningful, to give them false weight. It was something you were supposed to do because big productions had it. Fake it till you make it, right?
Saturday we make it.
Communist Day Care Center presents:
Dinosaur Monster CD release
The Berkley Front
3087 12 Mile Rd Berkley, MI 48072
Doors: 9:00 pm
wsg Solystic and Crowd Control
$3, $7 w/ disc
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