As yesterday's post quantified, I do love 4 Plugs quite a bit, and my love of it, as well as my fascination with what Mad was like during this period of their career, sprung me into buying a copy of the official scorebook. Each Mad album except for Humanity, the self-titled album, and (apparently) CiSTM K0nFLiqT... had official scorebooks issued by a company called Score House, and these would contain both sheet music and tablature for all of the songs on the album. Some of these scorebooks, like the one for Digidogheadlock, contained miscellaneous feelies as well, like sticker sheets and reference CD copies packed in a sleeve inside the book.
I personally got this scorebook for the images of Mad circa this album, and while there isn't a short supply of them, it's mainly relegated to the first twenty or so pages of this book, with the occasional further glance in between songs. Hell, my copy had some pages falling out, and I'm not sure what the cause of that is for, but either that's how it was shipped to me or the shipping conditions unglued a couple of the pages towards the front.
This particular scorebook had its first printing issued on May 30th, 1997, long after Ishigaki had left the band. However, he is still plastered all over the imagery present in this book, which would be an unusual occurrence here in America, where everyone in a band tend to pretend that a particular member never existed in the band after they leave... at least, in whatever they publish afterwards. It may not guarantee that he didn't leave the band on less than friendly terms, but it at least leaves the impression of such. If you wanna learn or perform songs from this album, get this songbook. If you wanna see what images are in here, you should get this songbook too.
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