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With "rock 'n' droll" band flapping, Flapping's "seeyoutonite," the long-promised, long-labored-over long play record is finally out, only 24 years after the previous model, "Montgomery Street" (1996), following the debut album "TEX" (1995, as flapping, Flapping FLAPPING). Much has changed, and much mulched in the soil of sameness. The core “band” is now Tom Lackner (drums, percussion, studiophonics) and Joe Woodard (guitar, songs, some voices), originally member Bruce Winter having flown for eastern shores. But no less than 20 musicians have kindly graced these tracks with their various musical powers. The singing team includes Woodard, Glen (Toad the Wet Sprocket) Phillips, Parry (Nerf Herder) Gripp, Zach Madden, Jesse Rhodes, Todd Capps, and a cameo by Bruce (“seeyoutonite”) Winter, adorned by the dulcet tones of harmonists Anna Abbey, Lois Mahalia, Nicole Lvoff, and David Cowan (whose garden was the inspiration for “Wonder in the Backyard”). “Faux Flannery (O’Connor)” narrator Lara Ernest also shows up, reprising her role from the album TEX’s “Wise Blood,” on the Wise Blood-related song “Stinger.”
Winter’s emptied bass chair was filled in by David Piltch, Chris Symer, and Steve Nelson. The mighty man-of-keys Brian Mann contributed actual accordion and non-actual Hammond B-3, Todd Capps also played key parts (keyboard parts, that is) including “glock ‘n’ roll” on “Tuesday Afternoon,” multi-man Bill Flores lent his pedal steel poetry, as well as baritone and alto saxes, and Angus Cooke dialed in his magical parts on “Another One.” Last but not least, what rock album is complete without trombone? That would be Madalena Fossatti. Completing the package and picture, photographer Matt Straka—supplier of the iconic cover of Montgomery Street (and resident thereof)—joined in to supply images and designs.
Songs on seeyoutonite cover and smother a range of topics, including: the perils of fame/acceptance lust (“Into Talk Radio”), materialism vs. matters of the heart (“Something for Nothing”), the info overload waltz “Danger in Numbers,” the tension-and-release-and-repeat between earthly and spiritual love (“Stinger,” “the Aim of Love”), varying shades of love sagas (“Boy Meets Girl,” ), the narcotic tedium of Mondays (“The Dawning of…”) and a power struggle in the actual and metaphorical garden (“Wonder in the Backyard”). To name a few.
Welcome to f,F, v. 3. Seeyoutonite.
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