Too Cool To Live, Too Smart To Die

Musicians
Tony Dewald: drums
Gerard Van Herk: guitar, vocals

Production
This is a re-mastered “dirt-floor mix” of songs originally recorded in 1985, plus the bonus “Lonely Motel”. The satanic backwards bits have been removed.
Plated at Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, Ontario
Pressed by Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, Ontario

Songwriting
All songs written by Gerard Van Herk except as noted
Cheese & Crackers written by H. Thompson
Down In Mexico written by Leiber-Stoller

Photography
Photography by Peter Eicher

Publishing
Published by Og Music except “Down In Mexico” published by Tiger
CAPAC except “Down In Mexico” BMI

Release Info
Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, mini-album
Canadian version of mini-album earlier released in the US
℗ & © 1988 Og Music
All rights reserved

Matrix / Runout
Side A: OG 12 . A1 . DM 3
Side B: OG 12 . B1 . DM 3

Liner notes
Hey, hipsters and flipsters of many lands! We hope you dig this, our first world-wide record. We’ve been spreading sludgeabilly across Canada since 1982, and this internationally-released disc is our first chance to bring that boppin’ sound to you, wherever you are.

On Too Cool to Live, Too Smart To Die, we’ve borrowed bits of songs from Bo Diddley, Sam the Sham, Syndicate of Sound, Jimmy Reed, Link Wray, Sam & Dave, James Brown, Richard Berry, Coasters, Dr. Teeth, Carl Perkins, Who, Booker T, Rosco Gordon, Danny & the Juniors, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Dale Hawkins, Duane Eddy, and others we’re too embarrassed to mention.

We chose these songs as a good cross-section of the basic sludgeabilly sound. We think it’s our evillest record yet, and we hope you dig it.

Thanks to Mike Chamberlain, Michelle Mayers, Peter Eicher, and everybody who’s given us a place to stay or a place to play.