The Hyperdrive Kittens - Phone Sex Girls

Tracklist

A	Phone Sex Girls
B	Lipstick

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – PLH Sound
• Mixed At – Sound And Vision

Credits

• Bass – Beky Haze
• Drums – Donnie Conner
• Engineer – Bill Lackey
• Lead Vocals – Jenene Curtis
• Mixed By – Buddy Saleman
• Mixed By [Assistant] – Hilary Maag
• Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals – Tigger LeTwang
• Written-By, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals, Producer – Lee Nails

Notes

My best friend Miss Lisa introduced me to Jenene Curtis a few years before the Hyperdrive Kittens formed. I'd jammed with Jenene once, recording a version of 'Ziggy Stardust' on a 4 track, so I knew she could sing. Me and Don Conner had been in Cement Trampoline together, and we wanted to keep playing after that band broke up. We originally planned to just drink beer and play Ramones and NY Dolls covers, have fun basically. That pretty much went out the window when I started writing songs, because I started getting really seriously into it then. I knew I wanted to work with a female vocalist, and I just called Jenene up. I never even considered anybody else.

Miss Lisa was actually a phone sex girl herself, and the song was inspired by her and her co-workers experiences. I also met Tigger Le Twang through Miss Lisa, and we began dating. Soon we were living together as a couple, and she joined the Kittens shortly after that. I taught her how to play guitar, and she picked it up pretty quickly, but when we recorded these tracks she hadn't been playing long, and she just did backing vocals. Her real contribution was the narrative bits. I did one with Jenene, and Tigger did two on her own.

Lipstick turned out to be something of a showstopper live, as Tigger would make out with Jenene onstage in the middle of the song where there's the pause right after the line "your lips are so baby-soft, your teasing little tongue gets me off". It seems pretty tame by today's standards, but it always got a rise out of the audience, beating Madonna and Brittany to the punch by many years.