TUNE IN! Live Radio Interview Tonight! I would love for you to tune in tonight, Friday, March 1st, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. Central Standard Time, when I will be a live guest on Insomniac’s Delight with show host Mark Medley. Listen online at https://www.kopn.org

If you can't tune in for the live broadcast, the show will be available for a limited time online here:https://www.kopn.org/programs/insomniacs-delight/

I hope you can join us! We’re taking a deep dive into the history & my backstory!

#CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

Never before seen pic from a New Year's Eve solo show at Shubas in Chicago, circa 1980s/early 90s. The recipient of the underwater I was ready to toss into the audience and the photographer was Bob Hughes. Judging by the outfit, I was probably performing Executive Exhibitionist, a song many of you have recently heard on Conversation & The Rejects.

Happy Valentine's Day to the love of my life, Glinda Harrison. I can’t imagine my life without you!

Here we are, September 1983 at Chicago’s Blackstone Hotel on the set for the video to the song Wild Night Tonight, from my 2nd album and its reissue.

May everyone love and be loved!

Thank you Danny Imig For the first Amazon review of Conversation & The Rejects! Your thoughts, words, and insights are invaluable! Everyone, if you feel moved to, please leave a great review on Amazon and everywhere online! It really helps to get the word out there! Here is the link! https://amzn.to/3tANe2H

Glinda (then friend and future wife) was sleeping over in my tiny apartment behind my parents house in late 83 when I woke up from a dream with some of the lyrics to Made Up In The Dark. At first, I thought it was a message I received from my spiritual teachers in my sleep cycle, but Glinda thought it was a song. She was right. I finished it and it ended up being on Conversation, now on Conversation & The Rejects. This is one of everyone’s faves! Link to listen in bio! #CoSoMusic

If you want to know the backstory of my 2nd LP track order, here’s the info:
@Animeraider #CoSoMusic #CoSoMusic

The backstory to the 40-year saga of my controversial 2nd LP and its reissue is complex, traumatic, and ultimately, triumphant. The liner notes that tell the story are included in the reissue package. Here, I wanted to share a bit of the package liner notes that document it all. Check out the album. Link in bio. #CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

Today is the 1 month anniversary of the release date for my expanded 2nd album reissue, Conversation & The Rejects, and I’m having a paczki tonight! If you've bought the record, I thank you! If you’re listening to the record, I thank you! If you are spreading the word, I thank you! Please share your thoughts here on the reissue and tell us your favorite tracks! #CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

2-I had to call out the changes while the tapes were rolling and since they weren't simple one syllable changes, like E, but Bflat suspended7, I had to really spit those changes out quickly before the beat they were played on. Link to listen to the remastered reissue in bio.

#CoSoMusic
#CoSoMusicians

1-BEHIND THE SCENES: How good was my band? When we recorded Secret Lover, my band was not well acquainted with the song and we were under pressure to get it done asap. Javier raced to put his synthesizer parts together, Barbie and Marie Goodrich got their backing vocals right, and as the tapes rolled, Lee Gatlin unleashed a phenomenal bass line while Ken Bronowski’s 2 off the cuff guitar solos killed it.

#CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

Here's a ticket stub from the tour my band did (Europe/UK 1980) where both Sign of the Cross (featured in Urgh! A Music War) & the previously unreleased Beefcake Touch were recorded. I'd love for you to check out both tracks on Conversation & The Rejects: Link in bio.

As it's been said about me many times before, the nose is the pose! Pic and graphics: @GlindaHarrison

Well, if the story concluded with “I’ll send him round to live next door to you,” we need the right song - and I have it with I Might Move In Next Door, now on Conversation & The Rejects. Link to listen in bio.

JUST POSTED-Skafish Interview on Baxie’s Musical Podcast!

I am excited to share the news with you that my first interview for Conversation & The Rejects, where show host Mike Baxendale and I take a very deep dive into the backstory is live!

Baxie’s Musical Podcast has featured such guests as Andy Summers from The Police, Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads, Andy Partridge from XTC, and Glen Matlock from The Sex Pistols, to name a few.

Here is the Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qqCchPRYCmalFpoEpbPdH

Want Vinyl? We've Got You Covered! Conversation & The Rejects, pressed to the highest industry standards by Smashed Plastic Pressing in Chicago!

Available ONLY at my Bandcamp store: Link in bio.

Pic: Glinda Harrison

Skafish T-Shirt Reigns! Pic and graphics: @GlindaHarrison

Available on Bandcamp. Link in bio.

#CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

Yes, he really said this verbatim and refused to release the bulk of the 2nd LP I initially turned in. But now, ALL the music is out there for everyone! Spotify link for Conversation & The Rejects in bio!

Conversation & The Rejects has been out for a few weeks and I am elated! If you haven’t got a chance to listen, check out the whole album, all 21 tracks, from the radio friendly to my mom’s opera piece to the many WTF moments on The Rejects! YouTube link in bio!

#CoSoMusic #CoSoMusicians

60 years ago today Jan. 16, 1964, the Whisky a Go Go opened in West Hollywood, CA. The first live act there was Johnny Rivers!

I was the first Chicago punk artist to play the Whisky when my band headlined there 2/78. The opening band was the Sunset Bombers. One of the members was Doug Fieger, who went on to form The Knack. At the Whisky show, Doug noticed our female drum roadie Tara. Fieger became infatuated with her, wrote/dedicated the song Oh Tara to her, which was on the first Knack LP.

Before my second album ended up being titled Conversation, the tentative title was I Might Move In Next Door, as reported by Billboard in the spring of 1983. Check out the remastered version of that neighborly song, now on Conversation & The Rejects. Link to buy and listen in bio!