Yo..........Here's what's going on at the
moment..............the guy who owns the studio and engineered the masters of the live stuff has
500 discs I just bought, with covers and all that shit................I'm
gonna go over the text on Sunday and make sure I got it right for the
first 5 discs.{.namely..."Shape Shifter.VOLUMES ONE.. TWO THREE AND
FOUR....AND PEACE BY PIECE......THE THIRD VOLUME OF Shape Shifter HAS
ALL THE ORIGINAL DEMOS I DID OF SOME OF THE TUNES AND THREE FINISHED
SONGS I DIDN'T RELEASE ON Shape Shifter...."TIME TO SHINE'........"LIGHT
UP THE NIGHT".AND "COVER GIRL".............The Fourth Shape
Shifter disc
is Instrumentals I did with Lewis on the tracks from Shape Shifter
without vocals.......just as instrumentals. The Peace by Piece disc
will just be the same
and so will the first two Shape Shifter Volumes......I should be able to
print
them all up sometime next week.then we can them get them up for
sale............The live shows are all from the period between 1997 and
2001....either live at shows like Fieldstone.....Sweetwater...The
Seventh Note......Ben-ee's...Live Oak........The Pocanos.........all that stuff along with live stuff from the studio without any overdubs, some real good stuff we just did fucking around at home when
we weren't doing shows....you know, just pickin and grinnin as they
say...and gettin fucked uip...stayin up all night........carousin and trying to play stuff we don't know how to play yet....neat shit ...some
of it......................it's got a lot of different performances of the
songs we were doing then and
some we weren't playing on stage...this is 9 live CD's and they are all real good with all those good players I got to had around in those days when I had a Studio...it really makes a big difference having that place NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A PAIN IN THE ASS IT WAS to keep it........I miss it a lot....have to try something else now I guess...............figure out some other way to make records...but I
got a plan.......I've just about run through all the crazy shit I possibly can in my mind the last 9 months or so from being sick and waiting on people to do things for me cause I can't do it myself cause I don't have a fucking studio.........and I'm about ready to start
playing the guitar again cause there's nothing left I can do.....or afford to do anyway....I could build a Blown Alcohol Pro Modified Drag Car if I could afford it...that would be
fun......................something that would run about 6
flat...............about 230 miles an hour.....I could finish my
Hot-Rod....and with that motor without changing the pistons I could
switch to Alcohol and drop a big Jimmy Blower on it and it would be the
perfect Compression ratio for Alcohol.about 14 to 1...I'd have to a get
a huge Fuel Tank, cause you gotta burn about three times as much
Alcohol to get it to run but when it runs it runs like a
mother-fucker............and if I was gonna be running 6's in that
thing I would want to go back through all the welds I did on the
chassis and make sure I didn't drop a stitch somewhere. wouldn't want it
coming apart with me in it....it would be one of the fastest bugs in
the world probably with that 69 Bug body I got on it.....Scary little
son of a bitch too!!!
101 inch wheelbase??......that's fucking short............go measure
it........you could probably get it in your living room if you had a
big enough door..........Little bitty bastard..............with a BIG FUCKING
V8...............Pretty big
anyway....496 inches, that's probably big enough to run a mid 6 second
Quarter Mile with an 1800 pound body running Blown Alcohol with maybe
a little bit of POP added to give it a boost I would say...with all the
work I did on that big old Chevy Motor it's got fucking everything in
it already......Roller Cam big fucking valves good heads......I cut a
groove around each cylinder in the block and put in a Stainless o-Ring
around each cylinder when I built it so I could run a Supercharger on
it...it's got BIG Headers.........if I could drive it
anyway...........have to practice a while.......There ain't a lot to a
Volkswagen body...I know that for a fact........I cut up a few of
them...........They look just like Fiat Topolino
Sedans..........considering Mussolini made the Fiats and Hitler made
the Bugs it seems like it shouldn't be surprising that when you pull
the body off the fenders they are very similar except the Fiat is a One
Seater with Suicide doors...Rather have a Fiat but they quit makin em in
37 I think they ain't easy to find...you can get Glass ones but you
gotta register em as a new car and smog them....that Bug is a
69....Smog Legal.....I could run it on the street on Alcohol with a with a
little bit of Nitro If I wanted to and be legal.......gotta be gettin away
with something.........I think it's an old Prison trait.............gotta always
have an escape plan............But what I said is about the size of it
now.......The name of the Live Series is going to be 'FRONTE' NON-VISUS"...........Like
I said, that's Latin for "The Edge.......[as in the edge of the envelope for
me]....is....indeed..."INVISIBLE"............You can't see the
edge..........people are pushing the edge all the time but you just don't see
them doing it. At least some of them are...the "FRONTIER"...is
"UNSEEN".............because it does not possess the the ability to be
seen...That is the Literal Translation at least to me anyway.........You have to
go inside to find it........Technology has pushed outwards and keeps going that
direction without developing the Inner sight which is required to balance the
Outward Thrust...........Outer Space is about their stopping point at this time,
and that's entirely Physical...What
I'm talking about is the Inner Frontier, cause that's how you get out of
the box so to speak.....you have to Think not only " Outside the Box...but you
have to think Inside the Box where there is no Box at all.....just the Concept
of one.........then all things "Conceptual" become seen in their proper
perspective and you see the Potential of Alternate "BOXES" so to Speak.........Or,of
"NO BOXES AT ALL"....."VISITA INTERIORA TERRA RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM
LAPIDEM"...that's Latin too but you gotta figure it out for yourself
what it means.........Like The Panda said ........."Panda...Eats shoots
and leaves"...look it up in the dictionary....Spooky Huh?...Well, I'm kinda
Spooky in that one area..........I'm still thinking and still Learning, and so
are you.....have you ever wondered how many people there might who never wonder
about any of that shit at all??......Cause they haven't evolved that far
yet??........There's a lot more than you think buddy...These second series of
discs..9 in all so far.........will be released a bit later, like maybe a month,
cause I want to get em right the first time. All this shit of going over and
over the last 20 Years of my life is getting a little bit old for me, even
though I guess I'm Old.............It's Time to play some new
stuff...............Seems like it might be fun to try
and do something like that again.........you know.....do some playing and
singing and recording and fucking around.........I got a lot of half finished
projects stretching all around my god-damned Yard and all over my house...I got
Cars...and Guitars to Play and I gotta get me another big fucking SAILBOAT is
what I'm thinking , cause it seems like it might be getting time to sail away
...............know what I mean??...........Get a Fucking "SCHOONER", about 65
to Seventy feet..........Get the motherfucker made outta god-damned
Steel........and get some Rocket Propelled Grenades so I could keep
her..........and then hit the road for the South Pacific...............Sounds
like a plan to me!!""
Later...
May 5, 2005
(Gettin') Down at the
