Are You Shakespearienced?
Are You Shakespearienced? is the second studio album released by Minneapolis alternative rock band Trip Shakespeare. It was released in 1989 on Minneapolis indie label Gark Records, then reissued in 1998 on Minneapolis label Clean/Twin/Tone Records, and again in 2014 on Omnivore Recordings.
| Are You Shakespearienced? | ||||
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| Studio album by Trip Shakespeare | ||||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | Gark (original release), Clean/Twin/Tone (1998 re-release), Omnivore (2014 re-release) | |||
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| AllMusic | |
| Blurt | |
The album was the first to feature Dan Wilson, brother of founding member and main songwriter Matt Wilson, who had joined after the recording of Trip Shakespeare's debut, 1986's Applehead Man.
Recorded live in the studio without headsets, the album featured "Toolmaster of Brainerd," a song that "insanely links dairyland folklore with the enduring rock myth of guitar-hero supremacy." Hailing from "Brainerd where the children go to milking school," the Toolmaster
- learned to play the Gibson that his dog had found
- And he came to haunt the bars of Minneapolis town.
"Toolmaster," according to Minneapolis City Pages, "perfectly captured the tension between Minneapolis ambition and outstate resignation that pretty much informs life in the Land of 10,000 Lakes."