In Case of Fire Throw This In

In Case of Fire Throw This In is the first studio album by the American Lo-fi musician "Weird Paul" Petroskey, Releasing on 29 October 1987. Petroskey originally made a homemade cassette of the same name on the previous year.
After Petroskey completed recording his sixth homemade unreleased studio album "The World According To Petroskey" in 1987, he decided to make plans for his next album. Petroskey originally decided to name his next album "Magnum Opus" but reject the idea, deciding to release and sell his album with original music. He announced his new album in a concert flyer on October 1st. The album's title comes from a paperback of Hägar the Horrible.
Recording
On October 14, 1987, Petroskey re-recorded the song "This Beats Yard Work," which was originally recorded for a homemade cassette. The title originates from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The song "Brain Hemmorage/Burn Out Your Brain" was inspired by metal band Metallica. The following day Petroskey recorded the guitar solos. After a few day break, Petroskey recorded the song, "Deaf Nun" after being inspired to write the song after seeing the movie The Jerk, Too. Petroskey recorded almost 20 takes after having trouble syncing the drums and guitar.
The song "Sonny Bono's Got a Bomb" was written about Sonny Bono in the movie Airplane II: The Sequel. "Jaco is Dead/Bass Harmonic Exploshion" was written about Jaco Pastorius who died the same year the album was released. A friend of Petroskey, Mark Gramm, a bassist, told Petroskey the facts about Pasttorius' death and Petroskey composed the song in October 1987. Gramm afterwards received a pre-release cassette tape of "(I Stole a) Bunsen Burner", on the other side of the tape, Gramm recorded "Bass Harmonic Exploshion" in memory of Pastorius. The final song is Petroskey thanking the listener for buying the album.
I Stole a Bunsen Burner
The title for "(I Stole a) Bunsen Burner" comes from Petroskey's classmate, after his classmate had stolen a bunsen burner and wanted to sell it on the black market.. On October of 1987, Petroskey started recording of the song "(I Stole A) Bunsen Burner" Due to the lack of recording equipment, Petroskey had to record one track, and then play it back on a boombox, then after recording another track he'd play it back on a tape deck. The drums were composed from a music software for the Commodore 64 Computer. The music video for "(I Stole a) Bunsen Burner" was recorded in Petroskey's high school chemistry lab.
Release
On October 27, Petroskey released and started selling the album. Petroskey originally decided to name himself "'Off-The-Wall Paul' Petroskey" instead of "'Weird Paul' Petroskey" to differentiate himself from "Weird Al" Yankovic but started using "'Weird Paul' Petroskey" after popular demand. Gramm was the first to buy the album, as Petroskey listed all the names that bought his album as a reservation list. Petroskey used the periodic table of elements to give each copy of his album a status, starting as Hydrogen, Helium, and onwards. Petroskey hung advertisements for the album in his concerts and classrooms in his high school. on October 29th, Petroskey mailed 10 Dollars, and a copyright form to the U.S Copyright Office to copyright the album. On December 4th, Petroskey played a concert in his parents living room promoting the album, 35 attendees showed up, a large crowd for Petroskey. Afterwards, Petroskey started performing his concerts at his friend's garage. Petroskey sent the album to radio station WVCS, and on December 19th, "(I Stole A) Bunsen Burner" became the first song by Petroskey to be played on a radio station. Between 1987 and 2006, Petroskey sold around 100 copies of "In Case of Fire Throw This In" on cassette before switching to CDs and digital downloads.

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