Where to begin? The majority of this took place in 1997 in my college days. I wanted to create an “aural psychedelic journey” that would fill an entire CD. After listening to way too much Lumpy Gravy by the late, great Frank Zappa - I came up with a plan for achieving this. I wrote out an elaborate set of “scenes” where actors would assume pre-designated characters and ad-lib the situation I detailed in my notes. Sam Koch and I had a goofy side-band called Queen Ravioli where we wrote & recorded a bunch of silly songs. I wrote the “theme” song for the journey. Mike Humphrey came in to read some of his thoughtful, metaphysical spoken word... I would catalog as much as possible in my college apartment “studio” and take all of the cassettes in an E.T. suitcase (still got it!) over to Turan’s studio where we would spend hours upon hours transferring the cassettes to reel and then slicing the reel with razor blades to hear the aural goulash presented here. This was pre-Pro Tools, an era where the entire mixing/editing process was taking place by hand! This was meant to be Disc 4 in a 5-CD debut box set for my band Deja Voo Doo called Dolly (after the 1st cloned sheep). People talked some sense in to me and I wound up just releasing the 1st CD and “shelving the goofy stuff”. I never released it over the years because it’s so disparate from my other albums. But those that contributed to it still make references to moments from it even today so I might as well release it “officially”. This album is dedicated to the contributors, without whom it would have never been possible!
- Scott Fischer 2/25/16
Contributors:
Track 1: Joe Yakimicki, Sam Koch, Shelly Moore Stewart
Track 2: Joe Yakimicki, Ryan Lash, Sam Koch
Track 3: Nick Langis, George Langis, Jimmy Monroe, Pete Stergios, Angelo Rago, Jack Parrino, Angelo Kikos, Steve Rifkind, Sean Kelly, Flynn Gastineau, Michael Humphrey
Track 4: Pomp (& Pomp Again) - Theme from the Trials & Tribulations of the Plastic People
Track 5: Sam Koch, Christina Fields, Ryan Lash, Eric Mellor, Michael Humphrey
Track 6: Angelo Rago, Jack Parrino, Angelo Kikos, Steve Rifkind, Sean Kelly, Flynn Gastineau
Track 7: Ryan Lash, Davide Marzoli, Michael Humphrey
Track 8: Shelly Moore Stewart, Sam Koch, Michael Humphrey, Jenni Grutzmacher, Andy Lagis, Prescott Kagan, Sam Koch, George Langis, Jack Parrino, Angelo Kikos, Steve Rifkind, Mario Licciardi, Flynn GastineauTrack 9: Sam Koch, Joe Yakimicki, Ryan Lash, Eric Mellor, Michael Humphrey, Dave Neikirk
Illustrations: Adam Cherry
Logo/Titles: Stu Helm