Trubee Records

TRUBEE RECORDS is a record label invented by John Trubee to distribute music by his bands THE UGLY JANITOR OF AMERICA and GLOOP NOX AND THE STIK PEOPLE.
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Established in 2014, TRUBEE RECORDS offers extremely high quality music with provocative lyrics.

Address

PO BOX 4921
Santa Rosa, CA
95402

Website

http://www.johntrubee.com/

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The records here reflect enormous investments of my time, thought, and energy, devoid of the external financial and organizational structures typically devoted to such enterprises. This is a big challenge for me. On the upside, since I depend on no one for money or creative input or other support, I am FREE to produce whatever music pleases me. To accomplish this without the commonplace aggravation of band fights and heartbreaking obstructions by record labels and petty financial control freaks makes the release of these records HEAVEN TO ME.

Of course I am deeply grateful to the musicians and recording engineers without whom these records would not exist.

I was born in Rapid City, South Dakota. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. I attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon graduation I moved to North Hollywood, California. I was fortunate to release records through a few labels, write for music magazines, run a teeny music mailorder business out of my apartment, play electric guitar in various bands, have an exhibit of my original art and actually sell some---all while working a full-time day job.

For decades I walk through my life and work with melodies and lyrics percolating in my head, screaming for release into the outside world. On rare occasions, perhaps once or twice a decade, I am able to save enough money from my low-paying day jobs to produce and release a record. Since I wait for so long to get this music out of head, there is a certain anger and urgency with each release. It is like rotting away in prison for 50 years to finally escape for the purpose of losing ones virginity. Can you understand the reason for such anger and urgency?

I well remember my Dad driving my brothers and me around Princeton in the 1960's. We listened to radio host Cousin Brucie on WABC AM in New York City playing songs by The Mamas And Papas, Beach Boys, Beatles, Cream, Motown, Phil Spector, and various other hits of that era. I read Hunter Davies' authorized biography of the Beatles, then began buying LPs by them and Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Mothers of Invention, King Crimson, and others. I started playing guitar and playing in my first band, Gloop Nox & The Stik People. I loved music and records. I was dying to create my own. So I did.

I love LP records. I love seeing those beautiful, invisible sound waves of music I love in the physical form of grooves on a record. I love the 12” square space on the cover for reproducing artwork, photos, poetry, lyrics, and liner notes about the recording. When I buy records I look for beauty in the packaging, interesting song titles, interesting lyrics, and exotic sound colors. I do my damnedest to make the most interesting records I can. I want them to be just as fantastic as the records I loved so much when I was growing up.

The Ugly Janitors of America, established in North Hollywood Californai in 1983, is an ongoing music project I invented to record and perform my original music.

Gloop Nox and The Stik People is the teenage band I joined in 1973. We reunited with somewhat different personnel in 2011 and 2017 to record new music to release as LPs. I hope you find something here you will enjoy.

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