Every Day and Night

This is another song from the 1976 session in Montclair.

Every Day and Night (Music Link)

Please tell me quick when you say good bye

This comes from the same session. I think I tracked the vocals, trying to show Hank the sound I wanted. I was looking for a combination Dylan and Everly Brothers -- recorded 1976

Please tell me quick when you say good bye (music link)

I want to know

This is a very early version of this song -- I think I was showing Hank the song. He may be on the harp. I think Garrick is on base. I was still trying to figure it out. Recorded in Montclair rooming house 1976

I want to know (music link)

Osgosh (sorry, Frank Zappa)

This is a recording from the summer of 1973 done on a cheap tape recorder with a condenser microphone. I don't know what we were on at the time, but I wish we still had some. Clearly influenced by Frank Zappa

Osgosh (link fixed) (Music link)

I have a little Froggie

This is a musical poem that Pauly and I made Hank recite while we played the music. 

I have a little froggie (music link)

I have a little Froggie
He loves to sniff the glue
He follow me to school one day
I don't know why he do

This bitter bit

The icicle

Drips on my lips

And I lick

The cold and bitter

Taste winter brings

A flavor of reality

I dread yet cannot

Get enough of

As if knowing

In my genes

That after this

Frigid bit

I will once again

Get to lick

Spring’s rich

honey,

the warmth of it

warming my bones

even as I sip

this bitter brew

like cold tea

waiting for the sun

to warm and sweeten it

this bitter bit

part of all that is.

Drip of time

This moment

This drip of time

I count drop by drop

Some like honey

Lingering sweet

At the tip of my tongue

Others like bitter fruit

I can’t wait to drip

But lasts just as long

Until both expire

And feed my desire

For what once was,

This drip, drip, drip

From a faucet

I fear to shut completely

Not knowing

What comes after

The dripping has stopped.