Entire album, & where we found this:
"Temporarily Humboldt County" is a compressed timeline of the European expansion into North America and the displacement of the Native Americans, a theme the group would revisit often. (They had been told by friends in Humboldt County, California, that the local Indians added "Temporarily" to the county's name as a way of saying no one could really own the land.)
Another history show:
The uploader explains:
As a teenager I recorded a whole bunch of TV stuff with alligator clips attached to the speaker.
Damn. Think how good it would've sounded had he only put the clips on the speaker
wires.
Civilization HO!
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