Grand Opening and Closing

Grand Opening and Closing
Studio album by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Released	October 30, 2001
Recorded	1999-2001 at Polymorph Recording, Oakland, California
Genre	Avant-garde metal, progressive rock, progressive metal
Length	59:08
Label	Seeland/Chaosophy (original) ; The End Records (re-release)
Producer	Dan Rathbun, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum chronology

Grand Opening and Closing is the debut album by the American avant-garde metal group Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. It was recorded at Polymorph Recording, Oakland, CA, and was recorded, mixed, mastered by bassist Dan Rathbun. The album was produced by Dan Rathbun and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	[1]

The album was originally released on October 30, 2001 by Seeland Records in conjunction with Chaosophy Records. When the band signed to The End Records in 2006, the album was re-released on September 5, 2006 with three previously unreleased tracks.[2]

Grand Opening and Closing features David Shamrock on drums, the only SGM album to do so. He was replaced by Frank Grau, who plays drums on "The Stain" for this album.

Like with Of Natural History, some of the album's lyrics are inspired by different authors and poets. For example, the track "Sleep is Wrong" quotes a section of a poem by Dylan Thomas,[3] while "Sleepytime (Spirit is a Bone)" is inspired by William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and phrenology.[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Song	Length
1.	"Sleep Is Wrong"	Nils Frykdahl	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	Nils Frykdahl	6:35
2.	"Ambugaton"	Hank Williams	David Shamrock		5:38
3.	"Ablutions"	Carla Kihlstedt	Carla Kihlstedt		6:05
4.	"1997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's...)"	Nils Frykdahl	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	Nils Frykdahl	4:48
5.	"The Miniature"		David Shamrock and Nancy Elliot		0:59
6.	"Powerless"	Nils Frykdahl	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	Nils Frykdahl	9:30
7.	"The Stain"	Dan Rathbun	Dan Rathbun		6:46
8.	"Sleepytime (Spirit Is a Bone)"	Nils Frykdahl	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	Nils Frykdahl	10:16
9.	"Sunflower"		David Shamrock		7:52

End Records re-release
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Song	Length
10.	"More Time"	Carla Kihlstedt	Carla Kihlstedt/SGM		2:48
11.	"Flinch"	Carla Kihlstedt	Carla Kihlstedt		4:46
12.	"Powerless (live 01/06/06)" (Recorded at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.)	Nils Frykdahl	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	Nils Frykdahl	9:42

Personnel

Carla Kihlstedt – Electric Violin, Percussion Guitar,[5] Autoharp, Pump Organ, Voice
Dan Rathbun – Bass Guitar, Slide-piano Log, Pedal-action Wiggler, Thing, Autoharp, Voice
David Shamrock – Drums, Piano
Frank Grau – Drums on "The Stain"
Moe! Staiano – Percussion, Metal, Pressure-cap Marimba, Spring, Spring-nail Guitar, Popping Turtle, Food Containers, Tympani
Nils Frykdahl – 6 and 12 string guitars, Tibetan Bells, Autoharp, Voice

Notes

Prato, Greg. Grand Opening and Closing review allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2010-04-12.
http://www.theendrecords.com - SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Grand Opening And Closing! Accessed July 30, 2014. Archived from the original, May 20, 2008.
"From a poem by Dylan Thomas, used by at least one mother to taunt sleep-resistant children" (Grand Opening and Closing, liner notes, p. 112, note 5).
"Hospital color-lines inspired in part by William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories" & "Spirit is a bone is the motto of the phrenologists, 18th century skull-readers." (Ibid., notes 6 & 7, respectively.)
If some of these instruments seem unusual, the reason is that SGM uses a lot of homemade instruments. See the main article about the band for more information.

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gollark: Maybe the external system idea is the best one.]

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[1] Prato, Greg. Grand Opening and Closing review allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2010-04-12.

[2] ttp://www.theendrecords.com - SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Grand Opening And Closing! Accessed July 30, 2014. Archived from the original, May 20, 2008.

[3] "From a poem by Dylan Thomas, used by at least one mother to taunt sleep-resistant children" (Grand Opening and Closing, liner notes, p. 112, note 5).

[4] "Hospital color-lines inspired in part by William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories" & "Spirit is a bone is the motto of the phrenologists, 18th century skull-readers." (Ibid., notes 6 & 7, respectively.)

[5] If some of these instruments seem unusual, the reason is that SGM uses a lot of homemade instruments. See the main article about the band for more information.