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I'm A Bootleg

Hey Soul Mates,
you can now purchase a "bootleg" of my performance of Curtis Mayfield's Pusher Man with Adam Marsland's Chaos Band. It's part of a bootleg of the entire show, entitled "Tribute to 70's Soul." I've heard the recorded version and it's lots of fun. A very faithful, but exuberant performance of the hit from Superfly. Interested parties should visit the AMCB link above.

It's a Friday night in North Hollywood. What to do? What to do? Looks like a visit to Amoeba. That's always good for an hour or so.

Tomorrow, Bryan and I are going to work on some new songs and fine tune the set for Wednesday. We've got a slamming show ready for you. After conversing with a few people, we need to remind some of you to reset your junk mail filters to accept our Evites. We want you to know when we are playing, we love our audience. Plus we have two UK polls on this one and the responses so far have been good.

3121 where the party be. A special congrats to Prince on his first #1 studio album in over 20 years. Hard to believe all those great records (including Parade, possibly the greatest album ever and Sign 'O' The Times, the greatest double album ever) he made after Around The World In A Day, never hit #1 on the Billboard album chart. Only Batman, which was a soundtrack and hardly on par with his real LP work, topped it. Well done, Prince.

Love, Power, Peace

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