FROM TOM SMITH INTERVIEW IN WIRE MAGAZINE (AUGUST.2002): "As to the Oven Bait boot, it was an attempt to flesh out ideas that Jon and I had tossed around during the "Fuck Sky Bear" trek. PG's rehearsals were brutal affairs, with songs played for hours on end. Julie was relatively new at her instrument, and all of us were prone to miscues - we worked at the set with demonic fervor. I thought it would be cool to release an album that would document the process - one song per side, from Jon's initial excited, shouted instructions, through the various, inevitable breakdowns, to the first successful run-through. I combed through the rehearsal tapes I'd managed to hold on to after I left the group, and put the album together in the summer of '86. The production run was very small - less than 15 copies. Jon later told me that he quite enjoyed it - he included an excerpt from it on the Corpse Love compilation. Were Pussy Galore inept? Hardly. PG were a pioneering band; its music, as snarling and skewed as it must have seemed to most, struck me as being nothing less than majestic."