Halibut
by
Stiff Richards
Stiff Richards says:
Does anybody remember "In Search of" with Leonard Nimoy as the host? I was kicking back in a local found paradise, chilling my head in a fresh water pool here in Northern California when this visual of the famous, now debunked by source, 8mm film footage of Sasquatch, aka "Big Foot," came into my head. It occurred to me that Sasquatch was like E.T., just trying to avoid detection while he worked out how to call the mother ship, so advanced that he could enjoy halibut in the deeps of the forest! -Paul ...
This Fog (It's Gonna Lift)
blues, rock, pop
This always was one of my favorite Stiffies tunes. We recorded it days after Paul wrote the words so it's a fresh and straightforward take. The fog here is as beautiful as ever. -Eric
4:20 @ 7 Pools
pop, reggae/ska
One of the stonier instrumental dub bits we did in Stiff Richards. There's a creek up in a park in the Berkeley Hills where many a high schooler has bonged forth into the stratosphere. This piece is an ode to that fine piece of moss covered redwood chaos. - Eric
Yolanda
pop, urban/R&B, rock
Growing up in Berkeley, California and going to public schools in the 1970's and 80's meant you had a very multi-cultural experience. I remember learning some of those funky chants and dances from some far out sources. By high school most of those connections across social bounderies got lost. I guess this song speaks to the cosmopolitan nature of my pre-school. I wrote it with my now wife poet Elizabeth Treadwell. She wrote the really smart lines. Was a blast recording the track with Matthew King Kaufman and Michael Rosen. -Paul
You Don't Know Anything
rock, punk rock, punk rock, post modern angst rock
Oh the anger. Oh the angst. Oh the big distorted guitars. Short and furious.
