Volume I Volume II - Original 1997 US Man's Ruin label 10-track CD

rare original Original 1997 US Man's Ruin label 10-track CD featuring the first volumes of Josh Hommes highly profiled music collective featuring members of Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Fu Manchu, Wool and others.

Vinyl versions of Volume 1 & 2 was originally entitled "Instrumental Driving Music for Felons" and "Status: Ships Commander Butchered".

Allmusics Tom Schulte described the album as a "soundtrack for a running reckless in a land where the only visible things are the dash panel, the headlights, and the stars... The picture you get is very much that of a desert, a wasteland divided by a stark streak of asphalt."

Picture disc in held on a grey tray - comes complete with from booklet and back insert.

Condition: VG++ (Disc)/M- (Front Booklet)/M- (Back Insert):
Disc is nice and has just faint signs of playing surface handling, picture surface is mint.
Front booklet and back inserts are mint.

Tracklisting:

Volume 1: Instrumental Driving Music for Felons:
1. Girl Boy Tom 4:26
2. Monkey in the Middle 2:47
3. Girl Boy Tom 2:52
4. Preaching 0:45
5. Man's Ruin Preach 0:51
6. Cowards Way Out 5:36
7. Robotic Lunch 5:21

Volume 2: Status: Ships Commander Butchered:
8. Johnny the Boy 4:31
9. Screamin Eagle 3:38
10. Cake (Who Shit on The?) 9:05

Recorded August 5 - 12, 1997 at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California.

Credits:
Josh Homme - guitars (tracks 2, 6, 7), keyboards (tracks 1, 3)
Peter Stahl - vocals (tracks 8, 9)
John McBain - guitars (tracks 1, 2, 3 and 8, 9, 10), lap steel guitar (track 2), keyboards (track 6, 9), slide guitar (track 7)
Fred Drake - guitars (tracks 1, 3), drums (tracks 2, 6), keyboards (tracks 2, 6), percussion (track 10)
John McBain - guitars (tracks 8, 9, 10), Bass (track 8, 9), keyboards (track 10)
Dave Catching - bass (tracks 1, 3), electronic piano (track 2), guitar (track 6), percussion (track 10
Ben Shepherd - bass (tracks 2, 6, 7)
Alfredo Hernández - drums (tracks 1, 3, 8, 10), percussion (track 10)
The Reverend Bruno Ponce Jones - vocals (tracks 4, 5)
Brant Bjork - drums (track 7, 8, 9), bass and percussion (track 10)


Technical Credits:
Josh Homme - Mix
Fred Drake - engineering
Dave Catching, Tony Mason - engineering assistance
Tom Baker - mastering engineer