coordinator [coordination] Susan Jacobs design Kevin A. McDonagh executive-producer Les Michaels liner notes Hal Willner photography by [concert] Nelson Lyon photography by [cover] Adrian Boot producer [associate] James Grauerholz producer, edited by Hal Willner producer, edited by Nelson Lyon programmed by [keyboards for john cale] Andy Green recorded by Hal Willner recorded by [additional], mixed by Joe Ferla tracks 7 recorded by [music and effects], mixed by Chris Laidlaw Recorded At Hairball 3 Recorded At Sorcerer Sound Recorded At Quad Recording Studios Recorded At Sigma Sound Studios Mixed At Sigma Sound Studios Mixed At Bearsville Studios Edited At Grossman Cottage Mastered At BMG/RCA Studios Copyright (c) Island Records Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) Island Records Inc. Made By PDO, USA Readings by William S. Burroughs set to music of different artists.
— William's Welcome, Dinner Conversation (The Snakes), Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story, After-Dinner Conversation (An Atrocious Conceit) and A New Standard by Which to Measure Infamy are new texts, unpublished. — A Thanksgiving Prayer and Where He Was Going are from 'Tornado Alley'. — Naked Lunch Excerpts are from 'Naked Lunch'. — Ah Pook the Destroyer is from 'Ah Pook Is Here.' — Kill the Badger! is from 'The Cat Inside'. — The Sermon on the Mount 1, 2, and 3 is from the Bible. — No More Stalins, No More Hitlers is from 'Interzone'. — Scandal at the Jungle Hiltons is from 'The Western Lands'. — Love Your Enemies is from 'Ghost of Chance'. — Apocalypse is from 'Apocalypse'.
Recorded at Hairball 3; Lawrence, Kansas. Edited at Grossman Cottage; Bearsville, NY. Additional recording at Acoustilog/Sorcerer Sound; New York, Quadrosonic Studios; New York and Sigma Sound Studios; New York. Mixed at Sigma Sound Studios; New York and Bearsville Studios; Bearsville, New York. Mastered at BMG/RCA Studios.
This album is dedicated to Keith Haring, at the Apocalypse - William S. Burroughs