Big thumbs up and it makes me smile. Frans De Waard wrote (compiled?) a book on Ron Lessard. Buy it, read it (because the idea is not just to own it as part of our collection), be a happier human because of it. 🙂

Things I didn’t learn early enough in life . . .

RRRecords is pronounced with an extended “R” sound at the beginning of the word. It is not the letter R spoken twice followed by the word “records”. I learned that from an interview with Dom Prurient.

Ron put out the lock groove records, and they were functional pieces. You can read how they functioned in the book. But they were like . . . useful.

How much I appreciate the Recycled Tape Series – which are all still available for the cheap from Ron. There’s a line where I’m like “Just because you can pick up dozens of hours of sonic joy for $50, doesn’t mean you should be asking this guy to dub a dozen tapes for you”. That’s for me. You can do whatever you want. Maybe I’m wrong.

How cool the Pure Series was.

That Ron and Emile Beaulieau were like Harvey Dent. Imagine not knowing that right from the get-go.

That Ron – spoiler alert here – was so groundbreaking that he could tell Merzbow “Hey, most of this is good, but I’m gonna need two more tracks because two of them don’t cut the mustard”.

Enough with the spoilers. I don’t think the book is available on Amazon, I got mine from Scream and Writhe. You should get yours, doesn’t matter where.

The man is a treasure, and if I took away anything from the read it is “if you feel like doing something you think might be fun, do it”.