Greetings from Portland, Oregon. I am in a fancy studio about to start recording a new album. Garf is playing drums and the producer, Willie, and producer's helpers, Tony and Jason, are in the sound room listening to his tones. I am pondering the idea of making this album something edgier than what I'd planned... there is a vitality I'm after. I want this to be the most political album I've released and I want to cut way back on the buffoonery. My comedic and sex-injected live shows serve a purpose, but they also distract and deprecate. The political raps that I want to record have elements of humor, but they also have a seriousness about them. I think juxtaposing them with my acoustic, heart-scarred, working-stiff songs would communicate what I want to say right now. The songs I'm thinking of will have an array of influences-- from Michael Moore to Eminem to Johnny Cash. The challenge, for us in this studio, is to let them be their own thing.
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