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(music – The Mistakes)
I love this piece very much. It exists because Henry decided, for his ending solo on “Transmogrification of Chili” (and prior to our actually recording the track), to play a solo into one of his myriad digital devices, speed it up and flip it backwards. So while we recording the basic track of “Chili”, when it came time for his solo, he just punched the start button on his effect unit and stood there. However, at the point when the rest of us had reached a mutual decision to stop playing, Henry’s unit was still spewing his solo. This moment marks the beginning of what is now “Warm Papaya”. One of my treasured memories of the sessions is of locking eyes with Henry at this moment – a shining moment of pure uncertainty. After a few seconds I started doodling along with the rogue guitar. After the device finally stopped, I continued, and Henry started to play along with me. Prairie and Andy joined in and for four minutes we improvised, with much sensitivity, until the tape ran out (which is why the piece ends so abruptly). The reason I love this piece so much is that it sounds very composed, there are so many glistening moments where Henry plays just the perfect thing to complement what I’m doing and vice versa, and the progression of the tune seems incredibly logical and plotted in advance, but it was all done on the fly. I don’t know how much of what I consider to be the magic in this piece gets across to the listener, but I’m real glad it’s on tape.

HK – guitar left
MK – guitar right
PP – drums
AW – bass

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from The Mistakes, released December 19, 1995

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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