This episode, Chris compares two versions of one of his songs before the twins jump down a rabbit hole - talking life at 58, songwriting, recording studio shenenigans, the absurdity of drinking while tripping - and so much more.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 - "Something I Remember" by Chris Yale - Original Reflector version

4:11 - Greetings and about the song

5:50 - "Something I Remember" by Chris Yale - from the album, "Well Enough Alone"

9:06 - Cutting the baby in half / Old Testament

10:01 - Happy birthday to us - thoughts on 58 / Peter Murphy / "Deep"

11:19 - Living in the now / Wiser? / Demons / Innocuous Nigel / Is Rog smart? / The new cash registers

13:35 - On songwriting / Writing fast / Ideas sometimes just show up

14:36 - Gordon Lightfoot documentary / More about Lightfoot

15:39 - More about songwriting

16:15 - Recording studio experiences / Mystic Sound / Steve Fuji / Paramount / Roger Dollarhide / Ian Whitcomb / Lee Allen / Big Jay McNeely / Ronnie Barron

18:12 - More about Dollarhide / Kepex / Paul Rothchild / Paramount tape vault / Master tapes / Old tapes

20:16 - Echo Sound / Lee Newman / Leon Russell / Paradise Records / Paid in weed / Skyline Studios Topanga Canyon

20:16 - People think Chris is a stoner / "Flower" / "Flowers for Algernon" / Ian Talcroft / Sound Image North Hollywood / Glen Matisoff / Peder Rudling / Soldano Amplifier / Tripping at A&M Studios / Berlin video shoot on Soul Train sound stage

24:43 - The absurdity of drinking while tripping or tweaking

25:21 - Hamster International Records / KROQ / EFX Studios

26:12 - Are we who we thought we would be?

27:20 - Chris knows how Rog is

27:45 - More Lightfoot

28:26 - Little Free Libraries / Bobby Rydell autobiography / Tommy Steele / Dion is not dead

32:31 - "The Tao of Pooh" & "The Te of Piglet" / Taosim

34:03 - "Bosch" / Titus Welliver / Michael Connelly

35:08 - "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk / Neil Diamond / "Loudermilk"