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Beck, Morphine, Sheryl Crow and
... The Henrys?

February 26/98

Q: What do Beck, Morphine, Pavement, The Eels, Sheryl Crow, G-Love, Nick Cave, Radiohead and The Henrys have in common?

A: Well, if you said "Nothing", we'd have to agree, BUT YOU'D STILL GET A WRONG ANSWER! It seems BMG and Musik Express Magazine in Germany are putting out a compilation CD which includes all of the above artistes (plus about 20 other bands, but we don't care about them). They say it will sell 30,000 copies. That's 30,000 Swiss, Austrians and Germans trying to figure out who in the hell Sweet Daddy Siki is. (For those of you who don't know, he lives in Toronto and was a wrestler in the '50s and '60s. Later he got a band going. We named a song after him.)

Last week we spent 5 days in the studio, which represents about 75% of the recording for our new CD. There's organ on it and everything. The studio was pretty good - a bit primitive maybe, what with the woodstove and all, and the strategically placed pails catching drops of El Nino rain as it came through the ceiling. We had some problems with microphone leakage, but as someone pointed out, the greater leaks came from the up above. From such adversity must surely come an intangible that you don't get in those snazzy LA studios with their fabulous walls and roofs.

We'll be chipping away at the record leisurely over the next little while. Maybe one day we'll put a couple of bars of shaker on a track, take lunch, have a siesta, then check out the morning's effort over a microbrew. Perhaps at that point we'll elect to reconvene a few days or a week later. You know, nothing too frantic.

We're also slowly revamping the website, so if you're out surfing over the next few months, drop in and see the new paint job as it gets applied. http://www.irus.rri.uwo.ca/~henry/

Hope you're all well.

From the Offices High Above Hencorp,

Your friends The (Toronto) Henrys

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