JAMCON '84 was the first volume in the Over the Edge series, which distills portions of Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

's radio program Over the Edge

Over the Edge (radio)

Over the Edge is a sound collage radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Don Joyce.Joyce is also a member of the pioneering sound collage band Negativland, members of which frequently make guest appearances on Over the Edge. A series of Over the Edge episodes have been released...

, broadcast on KPFA

KPFA

KPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...

. This album was edited together from at least three different broadcasts recorded between January and July 1985.

The first program, "JAMCON '84," consists of Tracks 1 - 5, and is presented as a radio documentary regarding a convention of Jammers, with commentary on jamming and the culture surrounding it. The second program, "Negativland's 4th of July Stockholders' Picnic," is composed of Tracks 6 & 7, and is presented as a stockholders meeting for people invested in the corporate entity that is Negativland, with updates and reports regarding their recent projects. The last program - and Track 8 of the disc - is "Body English," and is presented as live coverage of President Regan's second inaugural address.

Originally released in 1985 by SST Records

SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment...

 on cassette only, it was re-released in 1994 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records

Seeland Records

Seeland Records is an independent record label created by Negativland in 1979 to release their own recordings. It is a reference to the song "Seeland" by the band Neu!, who also gave Negativland the basis for their name, Sea-Land Corporation, a freight company, and the micro-nation of Sealand,...

, as a CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 with additional tracks featuring the two additional programs. The original Cassette Release contained the "JAMCON '84" program on Side A, and a program called "The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody" on Side B. "The Starting Line" Program appears on Over the Edge Vol. 1½

Over the Edge Vol. 1½: The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody

The Starting Line is composed of two program presentations, both of which are highly edited versions of shows that were originally broadcast on KPFA's Over the Edge radio show, hosted by Don Joyce weekly and featuring members of Negativland...

.

Track listing

1. "Introduction, JamJamJam, A Little History, Jam This Guy: An Interview with W6DR, Jamming the "Sports Line", Am I On?, Three Year Olds on the Air, etc.."
2. "Crosley Bendix Reviews JamArt and Cultural Jamming"
3. "The Worst Programming Ever, Mind Jamming, A Report by Rex Everything, etc.."
4. "C. Elliot Friday's Presidential Campaign Shortwave Broadcast (Live from Howland Island)"
5. "Two or Three People Listening, You Motherfucking Son of a Sack of Piece of Shit, Attempts to Jam and The End"
6. "Walking and Driving and Hiking to the Picnic, Introduction to the Show, Parade of Condiments" [CD only]
7. "Stockholders' Meeting (with Crosley Bendix), Insects in Your Pop Bottle, An Abrupt Ending" [CD only]
8. "Body English" [CD only]

Personnel

• Richard Lyons
  Richard Lyons (musician)
  Richard "Pastor Dick Seeland" Lyons is one of the members in Negativland. His personas in the band include Dick Vaughn, 5-time Cali Award winner; auto trivia expert...
  
  
• David Wills
• Don Joyce
• Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.- Career :Through his public speaking, lectures and extensive interviews, he serves as the primary spokesperson for the group...
  
  
• Chris Grigg
• Helen Holt
• Ian Allen
• Kent Hastings
• Peter Dayton
• Stoney Burke
  Stoney Burke
  Stoney Burke is a California street performer and actor.Burke performs political comedy on college campuses, most notably at the University of California, Berkeley near Sather Gate. Burke routinely engages crowds throughout the day using conservative Republican perspectives as his primary satire...
  
  
• Dan Ruderman
• John Reiger
• Vic Bedoian
• Russ Jennings
• Julia Randall
  Julia Randall
  Julia Randall was an American poet.She was one of a number of female poets writing in English whose work retained rhyme and meter long past the time when they were considered fashionable by the U.S. poetry scene of the twentieth century...