# The Master's Voice

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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Master's Voice
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [Unknown Instructors](/source/Unknown_Instructors)
| cover      = UnknownInst_Master.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = March 6, 2007 (mail order)<br />March 20, 2007 (street)
| recorded   = October 13, 2005
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Experimental rock](/source/Experimental_rock), [improvised music](/source/Improvisation)
| length     = {{Duration|m=41|s=18}}<ref>{{cite web|title=The Master's Voice|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-masters-voice-mw0001514291|publisher=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)|accessdate=March 15, 2019}}</ref>
| label      = [Smog Veil](/source/Smog_Veil_Records)
| producer   = [Joe Baiza](/source/Joe_Baiza), [Dan McGuire](/source/Dan_McGuire_(poet)), [Joe Carducci](/source/Joe_Carducci)<ref name="verbicide"/>
| prev_title = [The Way Things Work](/source/The_Way_Things_Work_(album))
| prev_year  = 2005
| next_title = [Funland](/source/Funland_(Unknown_Instructors_album))
| next_year  = 2009
}}
'''''The Master's Voice''''' is the second album by [American](/source/United_States) [improvisational](/source/Improvisation) band [Unknown Instructors](/source/Unknown_Instructors).<ref>{{cite web|last=Watt|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Watt|title=july 29, 2006|url=http://hootpage.com/hoot_news.html|website=Mike Watt's Hoot Page|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> The core quartet of [Mike Watt](/source/Mike_Watt) ([The Minutemen](/source/The_Minutemen_(band)), [fIREHOSE](/source/Firehose_(band)), [The Stooges](/source/The_Stooges), [Dos](/source/Dos_(band)), [Banyan](/source/Banyan)),<ref>{{cite web|title= Unknown Instructors – The Master's Voice|url=https://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Instructors-The-Masters-Voice/release/1340279|website=[Discogs](/source/Discogs)|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> [George Hurley](/source/George_Hurley) (The Minutemen, Firehose, [Red Krayola](/source/Red_Krayola)),<ref>{{cite web|last=Rashidi|first=Waleed|title=George Hurley|url=https://www.moderndrummer.com/2007/11/george-hurley/|work=[Modern Drummer](/source/Modern_Drummer)|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> [Joe Baiza](/source/Joe_Baiza) ([Saccharine Trust](/source/Saccharine_Trust), [Universal Congress Of](/source/Universal_Congress_Of)),<ref name="verbicide"/> and poet/saxophonist Dan McGuire reconvene on the album,<ref name="verbicide"/> with guest vocals on three tracks by [David Thomas](/source/David_Thomas_(musician)) ([Pere Ubu](/source/Pere_Ubu_(band)))<ref name="verbicide"/> and on another track by artist [Raymond Pettibon](/source/Raymond_Pettibon).<ref name="verbicide">{{cite web|last=Huddle|first=Mark|title=Interview: Joe Baiza and Dan McGuire of Unknown Instructors|url=https://www.verbicidemagazine.com/2007/09/07/interview-unknown-instructors/|publisher=Verbicide Magazine|date=September 7, 2007|accessdate=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In addition, Watt also contributes a vocal of his own. The album was recorded at [Total Access Studio](/source/Total_Access_Studio) in [Redondo Beach, California](/source/Redondo_Beach%2C_California),<ref>{{cite web|last=Watt|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Watt|title=watt (himself)|url=http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_gallery-watt.html|website=Mike Watt's Hoot Page|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> the same studio where [Black Flag](/source/Black_Flag_(band)) recorded many of their classic mid-'80s album releases and where Watt and Hurley's The Minutemen had recorded ''[Project: Mersh](/source/Project_Mersh)'' in 1985.

==Recording==
According to Dan McGuire, the previous album ''[The Ways Things Work](/source/The_Way_Things_Work_(album))'' was recorded in one day and came off [jazz](/source/jazz)ier because of it.<ref name="verbicide"/> With the rhythm section more familiar now, McGuire wanted a harder edged album this time.<ref name="verbicide"/>

==Track listing==
#"Swarm"
#"In Your Town Without You"
#"At The Center"
#"This Black Hat Is Rage"
#"Twing"-Twang
#"End Of The World"
#"Tar Baby Sees The Rising Sun"
#"Machine Language"
#"Doghouse Riley"
#"Maggot Sludge"

==Personnel==
*[Mike Watt](/source/Mike_Watt) - bass; vocals on track 2
*[George Hurley](/source/George_Hurley) - drums
*[Joe Baiza](/source/Joe_Baiza) - guitar
*[Dan McGuire](/source/Dan_McGuire_(poet)) - vocals (except where noted); saxophone
*[David Thomas](/source/David_Thomas_(musician)) - vocals on tracks 4, 7 and 9
*[Raymond Pettibon](/source/Raymond_Pettibon) - vocals on track 5

==References==
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