"Today, the world. Tomorrow, Bloomington."

Fanastic MX-80 studio performances and interview, shortly after the release of Hard Attack, their classic LP on Island Records.  I've also recently been informed that Dutch pressings of the album do not include an"alternate mix", as has sometimes been claimed.  The mix is the same on all the original pressings of the LP.  Go now in peace.       

We Get Videos

So label alum Bob Frankford gets wind of our last post and is modestly inspired to produce what he refers to as "the cheapest video of all time."  We welcome anything new here, of course, provided one or two of our preferred aesthetic buttons are pushed.  Bob delivers, as usual.

Says Bob:  "This is a crude edit of an early version of a riff which was (is?) intended as incidental music for a future episode of Breakfast With Theo.  Except for the Beschornia hidalgorupicola (second image in the vid), which is monocarpic, these aloe flowers are epheremal and appear only in Spring, year after year, until the plant dies.  Like palms, many aloes have a life span similar to that of humans.  They are also a notoriously slutty genus of plants, readily cross-pollinated and hybridized by hummingbirds and insects.  And humans, of course."

Dude sounds like a regular plantsman!  As a reminder, the next volume of Bob's "Old Yeller and the Pigbites" project is in the works, to be released in a few months (with luck).  In the meantime, we can enjoy Bob's botanical fingerpickings.