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What ever became of your original plan to make “a double LP prog epic”?

I don’t think I have the capacity to write 13-minute songs about a toad on a quest to eat a magic mushroom grown in a faraway land. Plus, double LPs are expensive. These days I’m all about efficiency and reality. That being said, my hairline is rapidly receding, there’s grey in my beard and I keep buying synths. In the future, a double LP might be the absolute minimum.

Why did you choose John McEntire as producer?

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