Green
Man Said features twenty-eight musicians and has taken a number of years
to complete. After initial home demos and preliminary recordings in back
of a gallery in
Miami's Design District with Steve Watt, the album was actually in
production at Ridenour Studios in Fort Lauderdale for two years,
starting in October 2003. Finishing touches were added at Miami Beach
Recording Studios, where the album was later mixed by Looch. Mastering
was performed over Christmas 2005 by Toby Mountain at Northeastern
Digital of Southborough, Massachusetts, which had done a sterling job on
my friend Mark Kane's 2004 album Fool's Dark Evening, not to mention
having mastered the original appearance of Bill Morrissey's spooky
"Robert Johnson" on his 1992 album Inside. Rich Good at TheXperiment.com
designed the packaging, which includes a really beautiful 16 page booklet.
The evolution of the album has been organic --its title song was not
written until October 2004, for the birth of Theo Semper, for example--
but the aim has always been to present the songs in the settings they
required, without regard for consistency of genre, marketability, live
practicality or any dubious "authenticity," in the belief that some kind
of coherence would reveal itself as the project progressed. I'm proud to
call the players on Green Man Said friends of mine, as they're all
wonderful people and their musical abilities are extraordinary. I hope
you'll take the tour and find out more about how Green Man Said came
about, and then go ahead and check out the players' pages, and pick up
their albums too. This one
has taken a long time because I wanted to get it right. I hope you like
it.