"The Boston Rag"
I always think the nice thing about "The Boston Rag" was that it took place in New York. So "The Boston Rag" was part of a state of mind.. I haven't seen Lonnie in a long time. I wonder how he is. Hi Lonnie!
"Dr. Wu"
That was one of the first songs we wrote after the tour for "Pretzel Logic". It was just a song that we wrote, I guess.
"Aja"
"Aja" had parts of another song in the middle of it that never made it that was called "Stand By The Seawall." The little chunk in the middle -- "Aja" is kind of a song with a little suite in the center of it and some of that were parts of that song and other miscellaneous bits and pieces that Donald had laying around in his head; things he was going to write and never did and it just got assembled that way.
"Home At Last"
There was a previous version of "Home At Last" that the chorus came from.
"Time Out Of Mind"
Well, we both wrote that lyric. I remember writing that at Donald's house in Malibu. We wrote that before we moved back to New York, most of it. All of it. So we must have had that one sitting around for a while.
"Any World (That I'm Welcome To)"
I think we wrote that, believe it or not, for Barbra Streisand, (Laughs)
Or Dusty Springfield. We had three or four songs that we wrote for some female
vocalist that somebody we knew was producing. The key change in it seemed like
a good idea at the time.
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
It wasn't written for Rickie Lee Jones. Nobody had any idea that there was a RLJ at that time. Well, obviously, some people did... it was just a pop song.
"Kid Charlemagne"
It was kind of an Owsleyesque figure that existed in our mind's eye. I think he was based on the idea of the outlaw-acid-chef of the Sixties who had essentially outlived the social context of his specialty but of course he was still an outlaw.
"Your Gold Teeth" Parts 1 and 2
That seemed like enough, to do two versions of it. We couldn't think of any other way to use that. (Laughs) I might add that the second version much more closely resembles the original version which we never recorded, It was just a simple sort of waltz.
"Through With Buzz"
(Laughter) The less said about that one, the better, I think.
"My Old School"
Folk-rocky. Lots of fun.
"Any Major Dude"
I think that was the second take. That was great. It was almost over before anyone knew they were recording it.
"Midnight Cruiser"
(Laughs) Jimmy Hodder's vocal. Old song.
"Babylon Sisters"
Very spooky song. I still like that one a lot. Some of them I don't like. That one I do.