“Stayed a While Then Went Away” (the first piece on side B) opens with the sinister chiming of Satan’s own grandfather clock, backed by what sounds like metal tacks being dragged across a chalkboard. As if things couldn’t get any more wince-inducing, Jim then adds screeching dentist’s drill-esque feedback to this mélange of sonic torture, along with enormous bowed tones. At around the 8 minute mark all hell breaks loose…sounds fly about with wild abandon…it sounds like a whole band’s worth of people (and a dog- I can definitely hear a dog in there somewhere) going apeshit…remember, though- it’s not…it’s just Jim and his axe making the racket…after a couple of minutes the insane freak outery subsides, the clock chimes once again and the dentist resumes his drilling. [Source]
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