Shortly after the LP came out, we’re talking months, one of Dead Man’s Curve’s distributors, Red Rhino, went bankrupt and their onsite inventory mysteriously disappeared (was seized and liquidated) forcing Dead Man’s Curve to fold.
Though the album should have been sucked into a black hole, it never completely vanished.
People would periodically write me and ask about it, mentioning how it made them feel when they listened to it, or wanting to hear it and asking how to get a hold of a copy. Neither Bob nor I had much interest in re-releasing it because of other projects. Also, the original LP was a disappointment in different ways that made the whole thing a drag to revisit.
A couple of labels offered to re-release the album over the years but it wasn’t until Ad Hoc Records offered to do a CD that things felt right and fell into place.
Bob took great care in the re-mastering of the songs, and though the recording is really raw and low-fidelity, a lot of the subtly and atmospheric warmth that was lost on the original LP is more present on the CD. Bob also wrote some insightful liner notes for the gatefold insert about the whole process of making the recording that let’s the listener in on what was going on while we were “suffering for our art†(haha, cry) making this album.
We dropped the moniker Corpses as Bedmates to distinguish a line between the prior recordings we did and this re-release. The CD came out on Ad Hoc in the spring of 2005.
Susanne
