Anne Gomez - bass, vocals, saxophone, toy piano Matt Kalb - guitar, vocals Bob Wall - drums, rhodes, vocals (but, alas, they were on the cover which we can't include. Come to think of it that nixes Anne's toy piano too. We'll have to check what the union rates are after this adjustment)

This was our second record, which we knew while we were making it. Recorded at Casa de Hotel Motel by me [Matt] on my 8-track, in the practice room. But weren't they all? (A: Yes.)

Waitresses of the Avant Garde - We usually all said we like our dinners real, but the sax noises were cool and we hadn't enough tracks so we make choices. It's been pointed out that food is in a number of my songs. Who pointed it out? I'll give you a clue: not Robert Christgau.

Brazilian Sleigh Ride - Don't those keyboards at the beginning scare you??

Lay Down to the Urge Passes - This is a song about old people getting it on. Sweet and gross.

Cut off the Right Hand - My only Prince nod to date is in this song. Spot it and win the satisfaction of having spotted it.

Don Knotts Holiday - Bob has alternate lyrics. My favorite part of recording was playing the acoustic guitar at the same time as Anne played the sax, because did I mention 8 is a small number? Anne gave me a cassette tape to learn this song in the early days and then it seemed like the critical mass of everyone (i.e. me finally) having a CD burner hit and the tape exploded but luckily I wrote it down first.

Implied Monocle - Bob made us play this song twice at a show because we missed the transition into the next song. The preceding sentence takes longer than it took to do that.

The cover on this record was, in my (Matt's) opinion, so far and away our best that it's possibly advisable I don't tell you. OK, it was Steely Dan's "The Boston Rag." There were rumors that my (oh let's admit it) mf'ing honey of a guitar solo won Solo of the Year in Guitar World, but that's urban legend. It was Guitar for the Practicing Musician, and it was second runner up, so get your facts straight. Flanged backup vocals = Bob's "You gotta bring it on home."
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Anne Gomez - bass, vocals, saxophone, toy piano Matt Kalb - guitar, vocals Bob Wall - drums, rhodes, vocals (but, alas, they were on the cover which we can't include. Come to think of it that nixes Anne's toy piano too. We'll have to check what the union rates are after this adjustment)

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