Dec 12 2016
Mount Schtick-More by Drew Friedman.
1985:
Lords of the New Church front man, label mate, and friend Stiv Bators tells me the following:
"If IRS Records ever suggests you guys do a live record, your days are numbered. They'll say…
Dec 8 2016
Wall of Voodoo 1984
London
Uncredited
Just off the plane from LA.,we are about to start The Lords of the New Church/Wall of Voodoo Tour. We had spent the year carving a new band from the old. In this photo…
Nov 4 2016
When the Heart Awakes
Listen to When the Heart Awakes
The first song I wrote from this collection, When the Heart Awakes is a mother's lament. It's a portrait of a troubled woman who gave up custody of her daughter…
Nov 3 2016
Honey Don't Be Good to Me
Last week, I commented on the title track of Virtue Triumphs. Today, I highligh the album' second track. Not only is it one of my favorite songs, it is also among the oldest.
Listen…
Oct 24 2016
Virtue Triumphs When the Devil Sleeps By Judy Schaechter
Listen to VIRTUE TRIUMPHS
LOST AND FOUND!
While digitizing hundreds of old cassettes, I have been able to reconstruct my long lost, unfinished album: Virtue Triumphs. Started soon after the 1990…
Oct 5 2016
Sep 28 2016
(These Times Are) Crazy-Crazy
Johnette Napolitano, Wire Train, Andy Prieboy.
1993
Where I found it:
While digitizing hundreds of old tapes, I happened upon this song in an unmarked cassette.
My jaw dropped. I had completely forgotten it.
Johnette is…
Sep 21 2016
"Footnotes " came to me in a roundabout fashion.
A while back, a friend of mine was very ill. To cheer him up, I would make recordings. Informal. Songs of mine or cover songs. That sort of thing. One…
Sep 17 2016
BUILD A BETTER GARDEN has a history almost as long as the Book of Genesis itself.
The original was written about 1993. It took me many weeks and cigarettes to write. In those pre-google days, I put together the list…
