Note of Historical Interest

He already had the paper: notebooks filled with couplets, bits of prose, punchlines without the jokes ... even a poem-let or two. He'd written a bit with DF c. ‘85 and had been producing albums since the same year [full WB credits here].   

As the decade advanced, he tricked out a sweet add-on room with a midi deck + keys, acoustic wall treatment, and all the CPUs and RAM that island money could buy. And Lo, in the middle of the Pacific — “kinda isolated from the musical community at large” — his DIY experiment began.

“… and I started writing some instrumental pieces,  and I thought...” (in a less-than-convincing tone) “… oh,  this is nice …" [from the 11 Tracks of Whack EPK]

We believe we've now heard all (most?) of these instrumental fantasias, pulled from dusty cassettes labeled with crazy nonsense names.

“And eventually I started to write some tunes...  that had some lyrics to them”. [the EPK again]

But before this merger, he also advanced at least one of his midi instrumentals a step further: he convened a small group of live musicians to run it down, in a studio, on the mainland. And we've got an audio.

We’re still nailing down the precise time, place, and personnel of these run-throughs (we have two major hypotheses), and will  update this page once all the details are in. We may also post the audio itself, so stay tuned.

But we wanted to tell you all about this interesting footnote to the dawn of a new creative era, yet another life for a cool cat named Walter, who had 9.