''JAMCON '84'' was the first volume in the ''Over the Edge'' series, which distills portions of
Negativland
Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka "The Weatherman"), Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker (aka "Wobbly" ...
's radio program ''
Over the Edge'', broadcast on
KPFA
KPFA (94.1 FM) is a public, listener-funded talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed o ...
. This album was edited together from at least three different broadcasts recorded between January and July 1985.
The first program, "JAMCON '84," consists of Tracks 1 - 5, and is presented as a radio documentary covering a convention of
amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency radio spectrum, spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emer ...
jammers, with commentary on radio jamming and
culture jamming
Culture jamming (sometimes also guerrilla communication) is a form of protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It at ...
, and the history and cultures surrounding them. The second program, "Negativland's 4th of July Stockholders' Picnic," is composed of Tracks 6 & 7, and is presented as a stockholders' meeting for the Universal Media Netweb (
Don Joyce's fictional radio network that supposedly presents the ''Over the Edge'' program) with Joyce's character Crosley Bendix giving updates and reports regarding their recent projects in a parody of the positive-thinking movement in business. The last program - and Track 8 of the disc - is "Body English," and is presented as live coverage of President
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party a ...
's second inaugural address.
Originally released in 1985 by
SST Records
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was first founded in 1966 by Ginn at age 12 as Solid State Transmitters, a small business through which he sold elec ...
on
cassette only, it was re-released in 1994 by Negativland's own label,
Seeland Records, as a
CD with additional tracks featuring the two additional programs. The original Cassette Release contained the "JAMCON '84" program on Side A, and a program called "The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody" on Side B. "The Starting Line" Program appears on
Over the Edge Vol. 1½.
Track listing
#"Introduction, JamJamJam, A Little History, Jam This Guy: An Interview with W6DR, Jamming the "Sports Line", Am I On?, Three Year Olds on the Air, etc.."
#"Crosley Bendix Reviews JamArt and Cultural Jamming"
#"The Worst Programming Ever, Mind Jamming, A Report by Rex Everything, etc.."
#"C. Elliot Friday's Presidential Campaign Shortwave Broadcast (Live from Howland Island)"
#"Two or Three People Listening, You Motherfucking Son of a Sack of Piece of Shit, Attempts to Jam and The End"
#"Walking and Driving and Hiking to the Picnic, Introduction to the Show, Parade of Condiments"
D only#"Stockholders' Meeting (with Crosley Bendix), Insects in Your Pop Bottle, An Abrupt Ending"
D only#"Body English"
D only
Personnel
*Richard Lyons
*David Wills
*
Don Joyce
*Mark Hosler
*Chris Grigg
*Helen Holt
*Ian Allen
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Kent Hastings
*Peter Dayton
*
Stoney Burke
*
Dan Ruderman
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John Reiger
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Vic Bedoian
*
Russ Jennings
*
Julia Randall
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Negativland albums
1985 compilation albums
SST Records compilation albums
Seeland Records compilation albums