Hurricane Fighter Plane (single)

Track listing

• The Red Crayola - "Hurricane Fighter Plane" (1978 re-recording)
• 13th Floor Elevators - "Reverberation"

Background

• The new version of "Hurricane Fighter Plane" was recorded in July 1978 at the same session as "Wives in Orbit" and "Yik Yak"
• The flexi-disc was released in ZigZag magazine, October 1978
• It was a promotion for Radar's first two reissues of the International Artists catalog as well as The Red Crayola's new single Wives in Orbit
• See also: 4 Song EP

ZigZag magazine

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  ZigZag October 1978
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  Flexidisc in ZigZag
• 
  Advertisement for The Parable of Arable Land reissue

Personnel

The Red Crayola

• Mayo Thompson - vocals, guitar
• Jesse Chamberlain - drums

Retrospectives

Mayo Thompson, 1996

[...] I went to England and I sat there, and after I fell out with Art & Lang--we had a big argument, after I was there for about a year. So I thought, what am I going to do? I thought I would look around and see if there was any possibility for music. I did an interview with Pete Frame, who did Zig Zag and all these family trees and so on--a very nice man. He was the press agent for Stiff Records at the time. The whole thing was just getting going. And he said, yeah, I imagine you could do so and so. So I went around to Virgin and saw Simon Draper, and Simon Draper said yes, he would make a one-off single with me. Virgin was about to do a single with Roky, "Bermuda." [...]