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The Appleseed: September 2002
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Yawn Where am I. . ? All signs point to Mt. Auburn Street, where I've apparently been sitting in the high-rise, crosslegged, digging multiple sunsets from the aerie for. . . how many days? I Me Now. . . I. . . Me. . . Now. . . . Anyway, I'm ba-a-a-a-a-ack! Actually, the stamp should commemorate Applestock (duh! But who am I to gum up the works? I 'm sending a picture. . . . This is not the 28-year-old spirit of Applestock anymore. Maybe it's because Conan went to such great lengths to position me wit...
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The Appleseed: March 2003
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Al Gore: 50,999,897. George W. Bush: 50,456,002. Went live, I've been inundated with requests for more info on "Toad Without No Wings." One day soon, it will be an audio link on ApplestockNation.com. But for now, friends, try to make do with the lyrics alone. I don't apologize. Let the words stand or fall on their own. Just remember, this was 1966.roughly the same time frame wherein Barry McGuire. Put out "Eve of Destruc-shennn.". My blood's so mad. And I'm just sitting here. That's what was in the air.
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The Appleseed
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Brothers and Sisters, Baba Ray is on. . . Walkabout. Will resume as an active site just as soon as WMH. Gets off his butt and finishes Applestock '66. The manuscript. This will be soon, since his wife and daughters have served notice that, until "Dad" dots the last "i" and crosses the last "t," he is in danger of being reclassified as persona non grata. In his own home. In the simplest possible terms, either Applestock '66. Will be out the door or WMH will be out in the street by end of May.
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The Appleseed: January 2003
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Okay—how to say this: I've been advised by counsel to avoid going any further into the specifics of my English holiday. Thus spake Zarathustra, I guess. To those of you who were hanging on tenterhooks for the rest of it, mea culpa. I apologize. I guess I should have packed it all into the previous post anyway . (See the pitfalls of brevity, short-post people? I bow to a greater power. Still cool enough to take a dive into the unknown? I was on the plane in a shot. However, I'll try-. You won't be sorry.
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The Appleseed
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Walkabout is officially over. Who could have imagined I'd be out walkabouting as long as I was? Bizarre things have happened since I swore of blogging. I mean, damn it, people! Blogger itself has been bought by Google! And that's only the beginning. Cackling madly) Yes, done, by cracky, I swear on my sainted mother's Strunk and Whyte! Done And the beast is stirring. So fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!
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The Appleseed
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Went live, I've been inundated with requests for more info on "Toad Without No Wings." One day soon, it will be an audio link on ApplestockNation.com. But for now, friends, try to make do with the lyrics alone. I don't apologize. Let the words stand or fall on their own. Just remember, this was 1966.roughly the same time frame wherein Barry McGuire. Put out "Eve of Destruc-shennn.". My blood's so mad. And I'm just sitting here. Contemplatin'. . .". That's what was in the air. Toad Without No Wings. For a...
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The Appleseed: "And lo, a little Toad shall lead them!"
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And lo, a little Toad shall lead them! The mp3 is here! In a last-second editing decision, WMH's back-up vocal was, shall we say, held back. It may reemerge in subsequent mixes (yes, there will be more. I envision horns, strings, choral effects). But for now, save for bass track by Rooster Van Dyke, who flew in from Terre Haute for the session, it is all-Baba. And yes, "Toad Without No Wings" appears here as an .mp3 file. If you CLICK HERE. Somewhere down there in desert country.
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The Appleseed
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Al Gore: 50,999,897. George W. Bush: 50,456,002.
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The Appleseed
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Studio recording of "Toad Without No Wings.". For some time, WMH has been nagging me to let him sing backups the next time I went into the studio. Only.it didn't seem to be coming about anytime in this century or the next. So he paid for the studio time himself, and we laid down tracks at Westwood Drive Studios. The session engineer was a young Baba devotee, Marc Minsker. Who is he talking to? Marc, by the way, even remembers being at Applestock- though he was born eighteen years later.).
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The Appleseed: February 2003
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Ahem) On this date forty years ago (that's right, 40), the picture below was taken. Assuming you were born by then, can you recall where YOU were on Feb. 5, 1963? I can I was about as young as the kids in the picture, but instead of freewheelin' through the Village, "Assistant Dean Riffles" (that's how I was known in those days) was out breaking up a snowball fight between Rodney Duke and Robby Cahill, two of the more notable "boys" at Newton Academy for Boys. Here's how I looked later that year (Spring).
