nonstop madness continues…recapping…last night played a power trio hit with tony catastrophe and tony whitfield (bilal)… insane chemistry in this trio…we went everywhere from hendrix to brazil to dub to new orleans to funkadelic..so much fun…look forward to more hits with this insane group…king and i finished 4 cues for a documentary on selma march for the right to vote in alabama 1965…footage from cbs tv, malcolm x, mlk, jesse jackson…mind blowing…the music very heavy sad, distorted riffs and slide guitar..beats…the ghost of sister g was with us on these sessions…miami vice is getting closer…waiting to hear from michael mann how our music is all fitting…at this stage i think we’ve done 9 scenes…so we’ll soon see…secret voices has been exciting as well…did final mastering session on tuesday…jeff chestek and pete humpreys, two scientists of sound here in philadelphia…the album sounds incredible…it’s a heavy one folks…it feels like a deep dark movie…one for the heads no doubt…after the session, pete played us some out takes from the ‘young americans’ sessions that he engineered back in the 70’s for some guy named david bowie…haha
it was incredible to hear this…luther vandrose sang back grounds on the record as well…his first recording session!
we heard an early take of ‘young americans’ which was alot different than the version we’re all used to.  now bowie is singing ‘ i’m afraid of americans’ … great stuff.