Ian reminded me that I initiated this podcast exactly a year ago today, November 28th. And since November is almost up with no podcast yet, and I try to keep it to at least one a month, here's a little Charlie Naked / The Defenestration Unit grab-bag.

1. "Salthanikon C" by Charlie Naked (House of Cards, 2007)... This is the third CN version of a piece I first did back in 1995. I haven't put this album up on Cafepress yet, but it's coming soon.

2. "Up Yours, or A Reply to Critics" by The Defenestration Unit (The Mysterious Fifth, 2000)... This was just one album among a BUNCH that the 1999/2000 "third version" of TDU recorded, this time with what was then our current core quartet along with Ann Panopio supplementing. When we mixed this down originally we had been inundated with so many recordings (that version of TDU recorded roughly an "album" a week), we forgot who the fifth player was on the album, hence the name.

3. "Fifth and Sixth Monkeys (scratching at insects)" by Charlie Naked (Seven Monkeys, vol. 2, 1996)... This was part of a double-album I recorded called Seven Monkeys, which was primarily me overdubbing free improv piano with the odd analog synthesizer and saxophone parts here and there, and throwing in some random sudden pitch shifts. I called it "music for nightmares", but this was the first of a very rare series of album where I record something that really interests me to try, but isn't really intended to be easy to listen to. This is the shortest part of the suite, so it's usually the best choice for providing a representative sample of the album.

4. "The Devil's Emissions" by The Defenestration Unit (Dark Haggis, 2000)... I know I showcase the 2000 version of TDU a lot. It's a numbers game really; the only version with more recordings is the current one, and that has it's own podcast (at http://tdu.podomatic.com). During the third version's time, we probably recorded thirty-something albums, so there's a LOT to choose from. This was the full group, which at that time meant something like seven members if I remember correctly.

5. "Gibby (Alternababe's Dreamdate)" by Charlie Horshack (Nobody Dogs, 1997)... I just threw this on to be funny. I have to say though, of all the guitar solos I've ever recorded in my life, I have to think this is my favorite.