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Mike Keneally With Andy Prieboy

MONTEZUMA WAS A MAN OF FAITH CD EP (Dr. Dream) released in 1991

MK involvement:
Acoustic guitar on the track "Where I'm Calling You From."

Comments:
Andy was the singer/composer/musician who replaced Stan Ridgeway as lead vocalist of Wall of Voodoo. Toward the end of that band's existence, Scott Thunes began playing bass for them at gigs, and at the last Wall of Voodoo gig ever in 1989, I was used as a surreal show-opener: standing by myself at a DX- 7, playing Paul McCartney's "Live And Let Die" completely straight and unemotionally as dry ice smoke enveloped the stage. The audience response was, at first, enthusiastic, growing steadily more confused and silent as I refused to stop and they realized that they had no idea who I was (Marc, the guitar player, watched from the audience and said it was one of the eeriest things he'd ever witnessed). Finally the band took the stage and verbally abused me until I retreated.

After this fabulous event, I started working sporadically in the studio with Andy, who had a publishing deal at MCA and spent a lot of time making demos in the studio there. Me and Thunes recorded a lot of stuff, some of which I remember as being really good, but the only released piece featuring me is one song on this five-song EP. My main memory of it is completing the track and Thunes telling me that he'd never been more impressed by anything I'd done. Andy is a truly unique songwriter and I'm sad that he hasn't released more stuff (his one full length album, from which the song "Montezuma" is excerpted, has Thunes on the whole thing). This EP also has a genius country version of "Whole Lotta Love", which has an uncredited vocal performance by Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde. My name in the liner notes is spelled "Keneely", for which I gave Andy a lot of shit.

(It might be out of print, but it was available from Dr. Dream, 60 Plaza Square, Orange, CA 92666)


BLOOD & CONCRETE original soundtrack EP (I.R.S.)
released in 1991

MK involvement:
Accordian, oboe and acoustic guitar on "One Girl In A Million", a song written and produced by Andy Prieboy.

Comments:
OK, not real accordian and oboe, but the Kurzweil equivalent thereof. Andy Prieboy provided several songs for the soundtrack of this peculiar film (available on video and occasionally visible on pay TV) which were sung by none other than Jennifer Beals of "Flashdance" fame. My performance is uncredited on the CD, but in the movie credits I receive an arrangement credit--- albeit with my name misspelled. Thunes played, uncredited, on the track as well.

(It might be out of print, but it was available from I.R.S. Records, 3939 Lankershim Blvd., Universal City, CA 91604)

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