Memory Palace

Notes For The Rattlesnakes Twitter Listening Party

Dec 30, 2024 •

My Italian Girlfriend

... Rosa took these photos of me in London, 1979.

Dec 30, 2024 •

Ambition 1983-4

I had two goals. And then I had none.

Dec 30, 2024 •

How much to record an orchestra in LA in 1991?

V - No one took any pictures? Me - I don’t think so. It wasn’t a thing back then.

Nov 7, 2024 •

Japanese Rattlesnakes Lyric Sheet

There was no lyric sheet with Rattlesnakes, but in Japan, in the 80's, at least, the major labels insisted on having them, so they made their own.

Nov 7, 2024 •

Set List, US Tour, early 1985

Just after Rattlesnakes was released in N. America

Nov 7, 2024 •

Singles that never were

I'd forgotten MIAFL was almost a single.

Nov 7, 2024 •

The Bob Dylan Band / Billy Blake and The Eternals

I finished recording and mixing my debut solo record (the X album) in the Summer of 1989 but Polydor didn't want to release it until the new year, so I…

Nov 7, 2024 •

Apollo Theatre, Glasgow

When they played Autobahn the whole theatre shook, no wonder it was closed.

Nov 7, 2024 •

Looking though one of my boxes of memorabilia today for the Hepworth / Ellen show I recorded I found these next to each other.

Nov 7, 2024 •

I dug this out for that Ellen/Hepworth thing thinking it was Robert Quine's

Nov 7, 2024 •

dear floyd, i don't know where you are anymore.

Nov 7, 2024 •

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