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Poor Baby
John C. Canfield, ever the critic and
recently a daddy, wants to know what’s with all the math references in
these songs. Even though I still like the symbols and the terms,
I have no idea what most of them are for anymore. Don’t tell the
UI Math Dept. So anyway, in addition to the one small incident here
that he’s making such a big deal about, this song features the amazing
tenor sax stylings of Bill Herriott, who played with My Brother’s Keeper
and gets called out of town and even out of the country for intriguing
gigs. Someday, if we can pluck him out of the sky, we hope to have
Bill over for a rehearsal! Brendan was the rhythm section on this
one and also added acoustic piano that he drove to his mom’s in St. Louis
to cut and vibes that he played at UI. Todd Fletcher played electric
piano (the tube Wurlitzer Bob Kimbell called “creamy”) and guitar on this
one. Drums and Wurli were cut in the A Room by Jonathan Pines.
Todd has been in so many great pop groups in Champaign-Urbana that I don’t
even know where to start! Okay I’ll start with Twiggy, June & the Exit
Wounds, Superhero Forehead, and so on. He played guitar and sat in
the backseat with the Moon Seven Times for about a year too.
One time during rehearsal, Todd (whose
sister says he plays “doodly doodly do”) and Brian had a solo contest with
this song. They had to make a lot of faces to get me to come back
in for the one line at the end so they could get back to business with
their duel until the end of the tune, which did come eventually.
Unfortunately, Rob and the TV crew were not there.
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