I recorded most of this in 2003. The idea behind Water, Waiting for Winter, The New Dawn, It’s Part of My Bean, and Steam was that I had five minutes to write guitar parts for a song, then I’d record them, making arrangement decisions on the fly. Then I had another minute or two to figure out some notes for the second guitar or whatever I was playing. Nothing was edited (obviously). An “instrument” stops when the phone rings and you can hear how stoned I am holding my breath, trying to sound normal to a boss I had only met several days earlier. I recorded BBlue DIamond around the same time in another room in the same apartment. I left the sliding door open for both guitar parts (I just played the same thing twice) and I remember being very happy with how the sounds of airliners and trucks and such lined up. the end of it all2 is from 2002 and another location.
Features a nut box, a coffee mug, and an Ensoniq TS-10. I used PARIS for most tracks.
The title comes from Monk but also means these songs are just gravy from me bum.
Rolling out to streaming services.