Back in Novemember, I obtained an ingeniously done forty-five-minute-long prank call cassette through a trade done with an Australian friend of mine. With a name like, "Great Phone Calls," I suspected the album to be a collection of pranks executed by a few antisocial-teen-age-Jerky-Boys-want-to-be's... Much to my surprise, my prejudgement was wrong. Though the victimizer of this album sounds decisively like the jokester of the equally hilarious Seattle Phone Pranks, I am convinced that he is a different person.

He then says he'll purchase the guy a burrito, and then punch him in the stomach as he watches the rolled-up-Mexican-food fly all over. "Alternative Bass Player"

Some of my favorite moments of this tape are when the guy responds to an advertisement requesting a bass guitarist for a band. The prankster tells the victim that once he is initiated into the band, it will be his honor to treat the underdog to lunch. He then says he'll purchase the guy a burrito, and then punch him in the stomach as he watches the rolled-up-Mexican-food fly all over. Perhaps this does not sound side-splittingly hilarious initially, but the hilarity is thouroughly soaked after three or four listenings. Another highlight of the cassette is when the prankster calls asking for information about saxaphone lessons at two o'clock in the morning. When the music teacher states that she doesn't give lessons at that hour, the prankster inquires as to why not because he is only up at that time of the night, his defensive being that he only plays music of the night.

If you do not yet own a copy of this prank call classic, I recommend you obtain one. Also, to add to your tape shopping list, some other obscure and scarcely known cassettes you must check out are the Seattle Phone Pranks, the Phone Heads, the Hoods: Calls from the Hood, and most importantly, the Horris Tapes.