Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I’d met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on Baghdad By The Bay, his show on San Francisco’s Pirate Cat Radio. A few unruly friends tagged along to egg me on, and in addition to going out live over the wires, the ensuing off-the-cuff, improvised hour of chaos was recorded for posterity on Pirate Cat’s state-of-the-art low-quality direct-to-mp3 recorder. This is that chaos. It may or may not have passed for showmanship—you be the judge.

This is basically a nearly-finished live album, warts and all, and creeping up on 15 years after the fact it just awaits on a little bit of final production gloss and mastering for me to consider it completed and ready for release. Deep apologies to Oona Garthwaite—one of whose recordings is briefly plagiarized wholesale during these proceedings for the sake of preserving the live radio show feel as it authentically occurred—as well as apologies to anyone who listened to this then, or, INB4, is about to now, for my singing voice.

BTW WordPress’s player is misreading these files’ tags. I arranged these songs for performance, but I didn’t write any of them.