Baggagemaster
by
Stiff Richards
Stiff Richards says:
I read a passage once in a book by John Cage called "M" in which he quotes a friend whose luggage had been lost at LAX. It went something like - "United States of Los Angeles Airport gentleman dear Sir, I damn seldom where my suitcase are. She no fly! You no more fit to baggagemaster than for crysake that's all, I hope!" Broken English was just the sort of random thing Mr. Cage was known to appreciate. Art is where you find it. This stayed with me. I told Paul the concept and he wrote some music. Ben and Matthew looked at us like we had cheese on our heads, and we recorded it. - Eric ...
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.
