just home from rehearsal with laurie in north hollywood, some place called AMP. i have never actually rehearsed in a place like that although i seem to remember crashing many many places similar a hundred years ago up in the Bay. laurie manages a band called sasquatch. her friends are all hard rockers, pretty down to earth people and she is the toughest girl bass player ever. she got a crew of folks to guest appear and cover budgies first album, with an added cover of her doing crash course in brain surgery and asked me to cover the last two songs on the album. i have been on stage with jazzers, experimental, classical, opera, emo prog-rockers and down home country players but this is taking me to a new place that feels strangely familiar and heavy. in 1987 i was asked to sing for an oakland metal band and was way too shy (it didn't help that they sucked!) so i've never done anything that rocks this hard outside of my solo career in my bedroom! it's really short notice, one rehearsal and we'll probably be a complete train wreck, but..no matter what happens it will be fun.