i have been here for awhile: watching, thinking. it seems that the world is becoming increasingly more complex. we earn more money, but the money becomes worth less. we discover new medicines but new diseases spring up. we locate new food sources, yet millions of people starve while food lays rotting in storage houses.

perhaps there was a time when life was easier and there was less to think about, when there was less non-essential information to contend with. now some people talk in terms of light years. men have landed on the moon but has a man ever landed on earth? once, but we crucified him.

once we lived in houses we built with our own hands, ate the food we grew in the fields, and walked whenever we wanted to travel - but people wanted a better life. so now we are a "civilized world" with technological conviences like automobiles (to breathe) industries (to drink) and insecticides (to eat) - science presumes to replace God = with technology out bishop, chemistry our high priest, and the atom bomb out pope. scientists say that soon they will be able to create life in laboratories. i sometimes stop to wonder, did man evolve from the animals? or did man become an animal all by himself?

to be appreciated fully, this album must be listened to at a loud volume and the album cover must be looked at in bright sunlight to bring out the deep greens of the garden.

mick played lead guitar; epiphone crestwood, super silky strings, with supro amp, 12 inch speaker, 10 watts de-armand well and tone foot pedal, marks and spencer t-shirt. dave played bass: fender precision, roto sound bass strings, traynor bass mate amp, new shoes. mike played drums: ludwig and hayman studio kits, after quitting king crimson and joining the musicians union. rod played steinway piano, B3 hammond organ, wurlitzer electric piano, hohner clavinet, mini-moog synthesizer, and grew a beard. drew coon dropped by, again. randy came by the first session but there was another bomb scare. (last year it was the arabs, this year the i.r.a.) oh yes, the tea lady was ms. kathy mahoney: lyon's tea. graham played harmonica: echo super vamper. graham preskitt played his new violin; his other one was stolen outside of broadhurst gardens the day before.

i played my same old segovia, and a 12-string epiphone, steinway piano, electric piano, and whatever else was laying around the studio. the album cover is a self-portrait, shot at 5:30 in the morning in rhodesia, several days after the zambian shootings. the lion was shot a week later. (a nikon fitted with a 135 mm lens, exposure 1/125 sec. at 12.8 on ektachrome) the back cover i shot in england. i could only find green apples, so fingernail polish was used to make the apple red.

all of this information is required, i suppose, by someone; but before all of this...i was thinking...

is there life after birth?