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Early Worm

This is a psychedelic artifact and is very rare indeed. It is the first record of Genesis P-Orridge, still legally known as Neil Megson.

Although 1969 is written on the label, in November of 1968, Neil Megson received from the lab his first record of which only 1 copy, an acetate, was pressed. Recorded in the attic in summer of '68, it is called Early Worm and its follow-up, never pressed, is called Catching The Bird. Home made instruments are used as is improvisation.

Neil was attending Hull University. At this point, the family was living in Solihull, which is a suburb of Birmingham. Gen's first sound lab was here, in the attic at the house on Links Drive, which was converted into a den. It was his place of escape and included a completist's trainset as well as reel-to-reel tape recorders.

Synchronistically, the lab wherein Early Worm was pressed, called Deroy Sound, also pressed the speeches of Adolf Hitler, recorded from radio and television by Ian Brady, the male counterpart of a very kinky serial killer duo, from Manchester, the other half of which was Myra Hindley. These people, among other things, killed children and are as famous in Britain as Charles Manson's family are in the U.S.. The Throbbing Gristle song Very Friendly is about Hindley and Brady.

The cover of Worm features quotes by John Cage, handwritten, his Silence book being a source of inspiration for Neil.

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