Andy Kaufman's debut album is culled from over 80 hours of recorded material, much of it recorded against someone's will.
by Kevin Warwick
Drawn from 82 hours of microcassette tapes that outsider comedy pioneer Andy Kaufman obsessively recorded between 1977 and '79, Andy and His Grandmother (the album released by Drag City earlier this month) isn't stand-up (not even close) and it isn't wholly improv—at least half the players should be willingly in on the joke for it to even hint at improv. Instead, it's Kaufman wielding a then-fledgling technology to further his whacked-out, diabolical performance art.…[ Read more ]