Our first CD, Just a Spoonful, is now out of print. We sold the last copies we had on this tour. CDBaby has a handful of copies on hand, and Amazon has one or two. You can, of course, still get it as a download from iTunes, Amazon, and any number of other download services.

We may repress the record at some point in the future if there’s sufficient interest.

Alexander Gelfand, author of the liner notes to our nearly-out-of-print first record has scored another impressive byline. A few months after publishing his first piece in a scrappy east coast daily called the ‘New York Times’, Alexander has published an article in a sleepy midwestern newspaper called the ‘Chicago Tribune’. The Trib (as locals call it) is perhaps best known for breaking the story of the election of Thomas E. Dewey to the presidency in 1948 (right). The Tribune company has also helped transform the once hapless Cubs into the second best baseball team in Chicago.

Alexander has penned a piece on soundproofing for modern city dwellers. You can read the full article here: Put a Lid on It

This just popped up on YouTube yesterday–a video of an anonymous drummer playing along to our first CD while driving the streets of Chicago. If the author would like to play some steering wheel with us sometime, he should drop us a line.

The tune is ‘Cindy’, from our Just a Spoonful CD. For what it’s worth, it’s the only Frankentake on the first CD (at least that I can remember). For the uninitiated, a Frankentake is a composite of multiple performances, edited together. They can be minor edits (like this one), or major surgery (like Lars Ulrich’s drum tracks, which may come from literally dozens of different takes).

Cindy is a good, old-fashioned Frankentake. Bob Weston pulled out the razor blade, cut the tape, and spliced in a chunk from another, more in-tune performance. The drop out part (’peaches in the summertime…’) comes from an alternate take.