MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

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MINDFLOWERS
(MARIGOLDS)

MINDFLOWERS was another written piece that I put to music. I knew the tone of the song by the way the words worked and that this was a psuedo jam-band song that had structure involved. It was written in 1995 and played nightly with FLIPPER DAVE at many places,
and I hope there’s a nice recording somewhere.
In 1998, I got to finally meet John Macbeth. John was a few years older than I was, and when I first saw him a decade earlier, he was a long-haired rocker from the other High School that I would just look at and go: “Oh….that’s what ‘cool’ looks like.” Fast forward to when I met Mark Ahles living across the street from me with his wife and old friend of mine, Geizha. I had songs, but wanted to actually try them as records, and then maybe play them out for people. Mark called in some favors and got Chuck Palmer, (with whom I went to high school), to play bass, and then brought in John Macbeth. When Mark told me he’d see if John was interested, I was beyond excited. I just plain knew John was a guitar player, but had never heard him play before. Well, here’s a good example of his craft! Watching John; actually, scratch that; I NEVER watched John when we played. I LISTENED to what he was playing and would look away like I was too close to the sun. When I was in the room with John as he played this solo for MINDFLOWERS, Moose (the engineer on the session) and I made ‘stinky faces’ as he held on to notes that would have died under my weak-ass fingers and controlled an unmanageably overdriven tone through his Les Paul Custom/Trace Elliot 2×10 sky blue combo amp. I was like, “what is even HAPPening?” I laughed and smiled and was walking on clouds. That was a dream come true for me.

I still want to re-master this whole 6 song album with new vocals. Greg Marshall on piano.
This was THE ROASTERS, ‘Don’t Punch the Princess’ CD.