July 21, 2009

Jerm Boor - Demo Tape

Jerm was a guy I knew at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, who played the guitar like a laser cuttlefish and wrote a few really good funny songs.  “Euclid”, “Pedro the Frog”, and “I Left My Heart in Tenochtitlan” stick out from this tape.  Other classic Jerm Boor songs were “What’s a Floor For?” and “The German Philosopher’s Love Song”, which contained the lyric “Hegel, I Goethe Goethe have you cause I Nietzsche Nietzsche Nietzsche so bad.”

He certainly was on track to writing guitar instrumentals as good as Leo Kottke.  After a year or two at SJC, he left school and (I believe) music behind, and was last known to be a Russian Orthodox monk.

I think he may be a real genius.

Side A:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nycm0ngmgtd

Side B (recommended if you only grab one):

http://www.mediafire.com/?2luw01teki2

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