released January 19, 2023

All proceeds from any sales that may take place of this album will be donated to Chris O'Brien's January 2023 Memorial expenses. Any further proceeds will be donated to the Tucson Community Food Bank or a homeless shelter/advocacy program to-be-determined.

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Fermented Music Presents

What Went Wrong

Everything and Anything

Original cassette release date: June 1,1989

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All songs written and produced by What Went Wrong (Griffin, Henderson, Mairs, O'Brien)

What Went Wrong (1989):

Matt Mairs (Melvin Beastly) - vocals, keyboard on #18 and 19

Chris Griffin (Gob Awful) - bass, all instruments on #8, 12, and 20

Michael K. Henderson (MKH) - guitar, vocal on #15

Chris O'Brien (Rat Shit) - drums, phaser guitar and vocal on #17, keyboard drone on #21

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Recorded at Mitzi's House, May 1989

Engineering and studio setup by Chris Griffin (with Melissa Houghton, MKH, and John Lankford)

Mixed by Chris Griffith and MKH

Live mixing (on "Worm Bucket" songs (#18, 19, 21): John Lankford

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Dedicated to the memory of Gob, Chris Rat, and Clifford Kuhn,
and to the mysterious hidden audience of What Went Wrong enthusiasts, both distant past and present.

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Special thanks to Melissa Houghton and Richard N. Henderson, without whom this record would never have been made.

Much gratitude also to Al Perry, who helped this music reach a wider listening audience, and who gave us the opportunity to share a 45" single with him on Toxic Ranch Records.

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Re-released January 19, 2023

Remastered by Michael K. Henderson in January 2022

Technical assistance and excellent advice: Kevin Henderson

Phantom "Our Cube the Earth" presence: T.S. Cramula

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Visuals and Cover:

Photography by Melissa Houghton, 1987
1989 ink sketches by MKH

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copyright 2023 by Michael K. Henderson and Matthew Mairs.

Deepest thanks to Margaret McClelland, Kevin Henderson, Matt and Fendy Mairs, Richard Henderson, Melissa Houghton, Al Perry, and everyone who helped with and encouraged the re-release of this album.


Matt Mairs' What Went Wrong history is available at his site:
www.mairs.net/mmairs/wwwbio.html

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"Everything and Anything" was recorded in a windowless shack-like room in a very small house, in a neighborhood one block south of the U of A. Just beyond the corrugated metal walls of the room was a pile of scrap metal ("the junkyard"), a mesquite bosque, and a dry riverbed, all of which may have dampened the volume levels a little, or maybe not. The house's narrow kitchen was also the control room. The mixing board and 4-track tape machine sat on a counter under cupboards, not far from a sink.

With the exception of the vocals, a few experimental pieces (#8, 12, and 20), and Chris O'Brien's overdubbed phase-shifting second guitar on #17, all the music on this album was recorded live.

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"What Went Wrong's 'Everything and Anything' is packed with great big gobs of grindy, distorto grunge, homemade sockodel in the style of PK & the Weathermen, Col Tom and early Crystalized Movements. This is what I wish a lot more tapes sounded like -- tons and heaps of huzzing flubber, all piled up and just about ready to collapse on you and yours! Yay!"
-- Byron Coley, Spin Magazine, November 1989