"Rubber Soul Train"   CD    1996   (SP003)

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Liner Notes

1. Molten Blobs Of Cheddar (3:01) enjoy the cheezy guitar licks, but if you like omelets be careful you don't get caught with too much egg on your face.

2. Love & Ecstasy (3:24) must we always choose between Soul and R&B? between Eros and Agape? or is there a deeper love beneath them both?

3. A Life Without F Is A Lie (2:38) A south of the border prog rock ditty about the mysteries of living with dying, of ancient curses and modern plagues.

4. Dambala (5:49) down the Mississippi and out to sea, the Father of Waters undulates through myriad forms, thus God & His Serpent are one, and the well of mortal life runs eternally.

5. The Ballad Of Socrates (2:15) you can be outspokenly honest in any situation, but sometimes the truth hurts, and if it hurts those with power over your life it can be suicidal to remain honest, even if your jingles ring true.

6. 500 Guns (3:39) the entire armed might of the "free" world is solidly behind each and every landlord, but don't worry, country rock yodelers aren't scared.

7. The People (4:16) if you don't mind solitude or sticking out, and you like many unusual kinds of music, you're probably not one of the people this song is about.

8. Set It Free (3:56) mother Nature can rock us gently or hard so we'd better try to save her trees; they're the hair of the earth, the lungs of the sky.

9. Nourishment (5:50) everything moves in cycles and spirals of up and down which all eventually even out, even styles of jazz piano.

10. Alchemystery (4:20) sex and magick, love and mystery, they'll all go together well if we just dance to the music.

11. One Good Reason (3:02) why is it that every classic of country and western music is about momma and/or drinking and/or someone you love dying?

12. The Spirit Of An Owl (1:02) the traditional voice of lamentation of the Fox people talks to you on the crazy wavelengths of today.

13. Epic Theater (4:03) a collectivist jazz song about the working style of innovative German dramaturge Bertolt Brecht.

14. Son Of A Bitch's Brew (The Emancipation Of America) (5:12) this spoken word number is addressed to a very few great women and men who know who they are, and though you're invited to listen along your opinion of it isn't important.

15. Empty-Headed Athenians (2:00) get a bunch of good pop musicians together in a big enough group and you'll often wind up with an ugly mob, and reasoning with a mob usually just makes 'em even angrier.

16. Rubber Soul Train (5:20) the blues never met a train like this before, it's always entering and leaving the station, but it never stops at the platform.


The Invertebrates:

Lewis Jack = donbecq on 1,2,4,5,7-9,12,14,15
M.Y. Shapiro = vocal on 1-16 /engineering on 1,2,7,9,10,12,14 /percussion on 3,9-12,15 /synth on 12 /coauthor on 1-7,9-11,13-16 /author on 12
Richard Vitale = drums on 1,4,5,8,11,15,16 /percussion on 4
Tezmerelda Compost = vocal on 1,4,5,8-11,15 /guitar on 2,5,8,10,11,15 /percussion on 9,10 /coauthor on 8,11
Tom Wheeler = bass guitar on 1-11,13-15 /percussion on 1,2,6,7,9,10,14,16 /engineering on 7,9,10,14,16 /vocal on 6,11 /synth on 7,16 /trumpet on 14,16 /flute on 13 /harmonica on 16 /coauthor on 1-5,7-11,13-16
Guy Geduldig = percussion on 1,3,7,10,14,16 /jawharp on 6,11,12 /engineering on 1,7,10 /synth on 7 /coauthor on 1,7
Pad McLaughlin = guitar on 6
John Hricko = drums on 2,9,10
Josiah Seiver = guitar on 1-3,10,12,16
Danny Hollenbaugh = drums on 6,13 /percussion on 3
Susan Greene = vocal on 6,13 /percussion on 6,13 /coauthor on 4
Teresa Iñiguez = vocal on 6,13


with:

Aaron Gregory = engineering on 2,9,10
Beth Custer = clarinet on 3,14
Billy Bob Black = viola on 6,11
Bob Balopole = synth on 13
Dan Rielly = guitar on 1,14
Gary Schwantes = /flute on 13 /sax on 15
Greg Jordan = engineering on 4,5,11,16 /guitar on 8,11 /drums on 5
Josh Ende = sax on 3
Melanie Law = vocal on 2,8,16
Richard Marriot = horn arrangements and trombone on 3
Robert Huff = coauthor on 6
Ron Morgan = steel guitar on 6
Steve Farzan = keyboard on 2,4,5,9,10,14,15
Steve Heithecker = engineering on 1,2,4-6,8,9,11-16 /synth on 4
Tom Mallon = engineering on 3,6,13 /percussion on 3



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