Dory Tourette: partial discography

I first met Dory Ben-Shalom, aka Dory Tourette, back in 1996 or 1997. I was in middle school in Albany, CA; Dory was a stranger who for some reason had decided to walk up to the other side of the fence on our lunch break to chat about punk and teach us how to Carter pick a guitar. He was an institution in the East Bay, especially Albany, and could often be found playing his guitar in front of a liquor store or BART station for spare change. ("Playing" seems like too weak a word here: Dory was a beast of a guitarist, and managed to take a bunch of recognizable influences and mold them into his own distinctive, manic style, pushing classic rock-and-roll till it was nearly falling off the rails.)

More eloquent people than me have written at length about Dory, particularly Lauren Quinn (here
and here). I'll just say that Dory was a big part of my teenage life. I played shows with him, lived with him, pushed shopping carts full of empty cans up the middle of Solano with him, and a lot more. He was a force, a character like no other, the flawed but loving antihero of a very specific time and place, and he is sorely missed.

I'm sure there are lots of cassette recordings of Dory playing solo out there in the ether. I'm sharing all of the recorded material I happen to have that Dory played on:

Dory Tourette: Partial discography (.zip download)

This includes:

• The Rock Immortal LP from Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads
• The Versions 7" (aka, wrongly, the Reno 7") from Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads
• Some solo recording of Dory that I think I got from Monica
• The two tracks from the SPAMPLER compilation ("Crooked Eye" and "Miguel")
• The 976 record Old Hat

No album art yet -- that's on my to-do list.

The Rock Immortal LP is still available through Thrillhouse Records. I strongly recommend you buy yourself a copy. At $9 it's a fucking steal. As far as I know everything else is out of print or otherwise unavailable.

Update, Sep. 2017: some unreleased Skirtheads and 976 tracks are up on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaabuZ9SdAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UecfkWDfanQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9gAyXNo5ck