We'll see

Brian, may I add to your list of looking-forwards-to's a solo Anthony Westcott album? Not a note has been recorded yet but the plan is to bop out a full-length disc that'll be my songs, my voice, but Henning's vision. He'll be Todd Rundgren to my Andy Partridge on "Skylarking." That may not be an extreme enough analogy, however. Due to my busy schedule, Henning's home studio and his endless inspiration to tinsel (I use 'tinsel' like a verb when it comes to recording), I'll be recording my parts and handing it over to my producer to shape an album around the basic guitar/vocals. Henning need not even keep my guitar takes. That's the basic plan. If time really becomes a problem, we may end up only finishing an EP. We'll see.

Anyway, like Brian, I have a "Ready For Spring" song. Why, readers may ask? In the spring of 2004, Ken and Brian agreed upon this idea that the two of them plus Henning and me would each write a thirty-second song called "Amanda's Ready For Spring." (I'm not sure but I think the titular Amanda was maybe Amanda Brooks, of Model Rocket/Lord Russ' wife fame). Brian and I followed through and Henning had a basic idea but the three products didn't seem to easily gel plus I'm not sure any of us were ecstatic about the other's bit, or maybe even our own. It was kind of a half-assed mess of various chunks of songs when we convened for the first time so the idea was unofficially abandoned. In the interim, I believe Brian reconfigured his piece and I settled upon an "On The Veranda With Miranda"-like complete brevity to mine so it may end up being a contender for my own little album. If you're interested, Brian, maybe you and I could see about combining our two halves and each recording our own version (both of which Henning would produce) or we could do a duet and place it on each of our albums. Then again, maybe we were right the first time and the two halves should remain separate. We'll see.

As it stands now, I don't have a lot of material that I've composed over the last two years but there were many songs that came about just after my last CD, "Imaginary Discogrpahy" was released in 2001. Also, I have a crop of tunes from my unfinished "Mallhalla!" song cycle that I think are too good to completely abandon. Then there are a few key songs from the end of the Humbert era that were never officially released. Add to those some new jams that I just never finished and that's about 30 songs to whittle down to a good 12-track record. We'll see.