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MC 900 Ft. Jesus
AMERICAN RECORDINGS 1994
A-side: ‘If Only I Had A Brain’
Back and back through space and time.
MC 900 Ft. Jesus voyaged through several different worlds over his curtailed three-album career. The alter-ego of Kentucky multi-instrumentalist Mark Griffin, his early dispatches married beatnik storytelling gifts – Bigfoot stealing his car (‘Truth Is Out Of Style’) or a murderer’s interior dialogue (‘Killer Inside Me’) – to DJ Zero’s industrially-tinged yet funky hip-hop beats. Griffin veered farther out-there on 1994’s third LP One Step Ahead Of The Spider, a free-flowing full-band jazz set redolent of Miles Davis circa In A Silent Way, its more sophisticated and organic backdrops offset by his way with a wry tale of the unexpected. ‘Regression Session’ was the jazz motherlode though, a ten-minute pseudo psychotherapy session with Griffin’s tinny voice imploring his subject “Tell me, tell me, what you see” over textured percussion-driven improv – all wah-wah guitars and funky bass, Griffin’s trumpet wilding out towards its denouement. Easily his most impactful other side, it reached plenty of homes after Spike Jonze video treatment for the A-side featured on Beavis and Butt-Head.