I also
received a fax from Zorn once that had on the title sender info "HIPS
ROAD"...
Andrew
>From the Spillane liner notes:
ON JAPAN
At one point I wanted to
call this record Hip's Road. It's in the Harajuku section of Tokyo, but
it's not a road; it's actually a boutique that caters to young teenage girls,
like the ones you see singing pop songs on Japanese TV. That's not why I
wanted to call the record Hip's Road; I like the name. The Japanese
have a really great way of using an mixing up the English language. So "Hip's
Road" for me is like the sound of "Naked Lunch" or "Blade Runner," a
combination of words that appeals to me.
...and of course
all (?) Tzadik releases say "A Project of Hips Road" on the back, minus the
apostrophe. I wonder if that's the name for an umbrella company Zorn has set
up to administer Tzadik and any other biz he may be involved in.
Wm.
Crump
On May 11, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Arthur Rother wrote:
If my memory
serves it's nothing more than a hip name.
it was born in the time when
Zorn liked to put two words
together to make a cool name, like Naked
City.
I think Hips Road was his record label before tzadik,
or the
name of him producing.
I am sure i read someting about in one of the
Filmworks
booklet, probably the first one, or maybe the Spillane
CD.