Meanwhile, in LA

Mardi Gras time again. I need to tell you this, dear friends…

I wish to warn you about a new crime ring that is targeting business travelers. This ring is well organized, well funded, has very skilled personnel, & is currently in most major cities, recently very active in New Orleans.

With the highly intoxicated masses mobbing the Big Easy, they are making for BIG EASY pickings.

A person in the bar walks up as you revel & offers to buy you a drink.

The last thing you remembers until you wake up in a hotel room bath tub, your body submerged to the neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing you not to move, but to call 911. A phone is on a small table next to the bathtub for you to make the call.

 You call 911. They have become quite familiar with these calls. The 911 operator instructs you to very slowly & carefully reach behind you to feel if there is a tube protruding from your lower back. The you find the tube & answers, "Yes." The 911 operator tells you to remain still, having already sent paramedics to help. The operator knows that one or both your kidneys have been harvested.

This is not a scam or out of a science fiction novel, it is real. You have just become another victim of kidneythieves.

 With the release of 2011s The Invisible Plan, kidneythieves had been honing their art & telling their story for 14 years. Trickster was the beginning of that story. Although Trickstereprocess is still available, this 1998 debut album seems to be unavailable for the time being.

kidneythieves was an industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez –vocals & Bruce Somers – guitar & engineering) often with Chris Schleyer – guitar , Christian Dorris -bass, & Sean Sellers - drums.

kidneythieves – Trickster, Push-64494-90202-2, 1998.

decryption code in comments

Tracklist:

Taxicab Messiah

S & M (A Love Song)

Swanmate

Feathers

Trickstrer

Creature

K

Pretty

Layers

Pleasant

Mustard Seed 

Enjoy,

NØ