COMING SOON!

Studio recording of "Toad Without No Wings."

For some time, WMH has been nagging me to let him sing backups the next time I went into the studio. Only...it didn't seem to be coming about anytime in this century or the next.

So he paid for the studio time himself, and we laid down tracks at Westwood Drive Studios.

The session engineer was a young Baba devotee, Marc Minsker, a performer himself, a fan of Sun Ra's Arkestra, and an overall Sixties nut who can answer questions like: "When Bob Dylan says 'Are we rolling Bob?' who is he talking to?" (Marc, by the way, even remembers being at Applestock--though he was born eighteen years later.)

Bill Henderson's contribution to "Toad" was...welcome, of course.

But what was planned as a back-up vocal, turned into something more like a second lead. Bossy as I am, I have a hard time telling people like Henderson to "lay back" or "cool your voice" or any of those euphemisms musicians use when what they really mean is, "try shutting the f--k up."

Okay: posting date is only days away, on ApplestockNation.com. Stay tuned. (Efforts may now proceed for global release parties.)

I'm baaaaaaack!

Walkabout is officially over.

Who could have imagined I'd be out walkabouting as long as I was? Bizarre things have happened since I swore of blogging. I mean, damn it, people!--Blogger itself has been bought by Google! and that's only the beginning.

The book? Done! (cackling madly) Yes, done, by cracky, I swear on my sainted mother's Strunk & Whyte! Done. And the beast is stirring. So fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!