Incest is best. This is the one part I miss about moving from LA. I probably could have gotten this spin off gigs. My friend Zach Rae got the gig with Fiona Apple on keys. I bet I could have gotten that gig (and would have liked it too). But, I cut my hair and run a business now. Good for Zach though. I remember when he was still in school and didn't know what he wanted to do (except that like me he had a love for squirly tape-based keyboards). Patrick is a great guy. I took him to a Peter Gabriel concert once. He hated it. I love Pete but the whole flashy show thing with the muscle suit and telephone booth WAS a little much. I admit at that point I would have rather seen Tom Waits play a dingy upright piano too (which I imagined Patrick was thinking).SometimesNothing wrote:Patrick plays on some of Michael's album, but he wasn't the only keyboard player involved. My guess is that he's got a lot of other session work, so Michael had to get some other people on keys (he plays a bunch himself too). Patrick is working a lot with Joe Henry on various projects. I think he's still playing with Sam Phillips too.
Did I ever tell you guys the story about Jack Black? This was before Tenacious D and before he did all of these movies like Shallow Hal etc. He had only done a few things like the Cable Guy at the time. I went to see Jon Brion play at Cafe Largo during a NAMM years ago and he was there talking to Adam (one of my partners in SR at the time) and I heard Adam say "you look famliliar, have we met before?" and then a few moments later I chimed in with "yeah, you look familliar to me too" and then Adam wispered to me "Cable Guy" and I looked at Adam and said "What???" and he said "He was in the Cable Guy" and then I said "ohhhhhhh". Then he asked us if we wanted to be in his band (not even knowing us). I could have been Tenacious DK.
You gotta love LA for finding that side of things (as opposed to the OTHER side which is the American Idol side
Which is the Dark Side we'll never know. 
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