Obligatory "Projects For 2012" Declaration
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Originally uploaded by Ghostly Penguin Display. 1. The third Corner Laughers album "Poppy Seeds: It's been under construction for over 2 years now, but I have a feeling it's going to be done in the next couple of weeks. And it's not like we've been sitting around doing nothing for the past 2 years - we made the Agony Aunts album in 2010 and finished the William Cleere & The Marvellous Fellas album in 2011, not to mention the single-of-the-month club which I thought would go extinct after a few months but ended up surviving the entire year. If all goes well "Poppy Seeds" will be out this Spring on Popover Records.
4. The 4th Agony Aunts album tentatively titled "Undecimber": That's right, even though we've only done one previous album, we're skipping right to album #4 which we expect to be our masterpiece. Albums 2 and 3 will have to wait until we've become washed-up bloated drug addicts. Expected release date: 12/12/12.
2. Mystery Lawn Music multi-band bus tour of America: During a recent Brain Trust meeting we came to the startling realization that we could put together an old-school package tour in which the number of separate acts would almost exceed the number of personnel needed to compose them. With just 8 or 9 people we could be The Corner Laughers, Agony Aunts, William Cleere & the Marvellous Fellas, Allen Clapp & His Orchestra, The Orange Peels, KC Bowman, John Moremen's Flotation Device, The Fairwood Singers, etc.
3. Super-secret Chris von Sneidern album: It's so secret that even though I've recorded 5 or 6 keyboard tracks for it, I have not actually been allowed to hear the songs. CvS is utilizing the old Ray Davies method of giving the band chord charts and instructions but not telling us what the lyrics or tunes are going to be. Regardless, I got to play with Prairie Prince, the drummer on "Skylarking". That was pretty exciting.
As is customary, I'll be keeping track of movies here and books here.