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Mike Keneally With Marc Bonilla

AMERICAN MATADOR (Reprise) released in 1993

MK involvement:
Organ on "Whiter Shade Of Pale."

Comments:
Marc is an excellent guitarist whose live band I was in for a little over a year, from late 1991 to late 1992. I was playing keyboards and second guitar, and we played a number of gigs supporting Marc's first album "EE Ticket", did some radio appearances on the "Mark and Brian" show and had a good time. It provided my first opportunity to work with Toss Panos, who was in the band and now plays drums in my band Beer For Dolphins (spectacularly). The whole time we were doing Bonilla gigs (which were subsidized by the terrifyingly solvent Reprise, but which still paid astonishingly little---for which I don't blame Marc for a second) we were held at bay with the promise of great reward upon the recording of the second album. Instead the bass player was sacked just before recording, and I ended up playing inaudible organ on this Procol Harum cover.

One of the last straws for me was spending a lot of time learning one of the acoustic guitar parts for Ravel's Prelude to "Le Tombeau De Couperin", then being informed that Reprise did not want me playing guitar on the record for fear it would divert attention from Marc. This is called "the music business". There is a good picture in the middle of the booklet, featuring the album's participants in a "Beggar's Banquet" tableau, where I'm caught in mid-grape throw. Toss and I are both very drunk in this picture---it was a fun afternoon. Joe Travers, drummer for Z and several "Dust Speck" cuts, now also plays drums with Marc Bonilla at live gigs. The great circle of life.

(easily available in record stores)


THE SAMPLER (Reprise)

This is a promotional only release of five songs from "American Matador", which features the instrumental version of "Whiter Shade Of Pale".

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