+ Visual Guide To Back Cover +

1. Double Rainbow over Baalbec Road, Highbury Fields London. photo by Anne Hadlock
2. A smiling Albert Hammond Jr. in Transporterraum NYC recording Is This It. courtesy of The Strokes
3. Kill Kenada L to R: Stewart Fairhurst, Tim Smithen, Danny Williams. photo by me
4. Stormy Lee Rollins and I recording her spoken word album GIRL, Chateau Relaxo NYC,1999
5. Me helping to build a wall at Transporterraum NYC, December 1999. photo by Joe Hadlock
6. The epic, generous Moses Schneider from Berlin “The Einstein of producers”. photo by Anne Hadlock

7. Silver Transporterraum of London 2004. SG, synths + UK Platinum Record for Is This It (300,000 sold)

8. Scary burnt up drums after the fire in our church/studio in Ballard. photo by Kelly Gordon Mercier
9. Cover of my I Lick The Moog album. Recorded at Transporterraum NYC around Christmas 2000.
10. Young G in a favorite shirt, 14 years old from a Tillicum Jr. High School Honor Society photo.
11. Me, Scarborough Steve, Carl Barât, Pete Doherty, Johnny Borrell, at Su Goodacre’s Covent Gardens

12. My gorgeous 1980 Les Paul— from Seattle’s Trading Musician, here shown in Monterrey Mexico
13. Recording Satellites— Our Very Bright Darkness, at Transporterraum NYC. photo by Jordi Herrera

14. The brilliant Julian Casablancas at TMF Studio recording Room On Fire. from video by Marc Swadel

15. A valuable notebook I put words, poems, lyrics, drawings + collected scraps in, England / Corfu 1984

16. Debe Lazo and I at our own drugs intervention. Dressed perfectly, having recently been through HELL

17. A painting I made of Debe Lazo circa 1988/1989 New York? Los Angeles? Seattle? Spokane?
18. Recording at Das Schaltraum in Berlin, at the famous DDR built Funkhaus. photo by Tom Schwoll
19. Upstairs main room of the church/studio in Ballard. Stage and wooden pews. photo by Cam Garrett

20. My Arp Odyssey synthesizer, made in 1975. My true favorite outer space machine
21. My dear roommates at Regent House, London. Camellia Clouse, Anna Mercedes, Kath Poulton
22. Logic session, Arrange Window for Trying Your Luck (Mixxx B) The Strokes, Transporterraum NYC

23. My piano playing fingers with nail polish on Solina String Machine at Medusa show. by Susan Basel

24. The lovely Terrah and her electronic Korg KAOSS pad, glam rock photo shoot by Anne Hadlock
25. Drummer extraordinaire Gary Powell with my friend / neighbor John Hassell at Su’s in Covent Garden

26. Me reading The Book of Thoth with Anne, Island of Mallorca never ending summer 2001.
27. Under a real rainbow, Baalbec Road near Highbury Fields London. photo by Anne Hadlock
28. Julian and I, affectionate greeting at Mercury Lounge Strokes residency show. photo by Anne Hadlock

29. Constructing The Strokes studio for First Impressions of Earth. NYC 2004, The Music Building
30. My Absinthee musical partner Anne Hadlock. A self portrait she showed me during our first meeting

31. A Wurlitzer electric piano I bought from Jeff Simmons, a former member of Frank Zappa’s band.
32. Toni Haimi guitar rocker in both Miss Machine & Black Light— in Sliver Transporterraum of London.

33. The Strokes, me, JP Bauersock (left), with engineer Toshiokazu Yoshioka (right) at TMF Studio NYC

34. Absinthee first band photo in Seattle, by Charlie Hoselton

35. Sarah Maguire in action the very first night I met her. Shoreditch, London 2004

36. Tim Smithen from Kill Kenada recording at Silver Transporterraum of London
37. Incredible rare, vintage recording equipment TMF Studio NYC. The Strokes Room On Fire sessions

38. Alesis Studio Two speakers I borrowed from landlord Rick during Is This It, Transporterraum NYC

39. Medusa band members Don Freeborn, Bruce Main and I outside Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

      We are waiting to see Genesis and I am showing off a small telescope and The Bhagavad Gita—

      strange! photo by Susan Basel     

40. Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti playing chess at Transporterraum NYC studio. Is This It sessions

41. Kill Kenada’s Tim Smithen in hilarious black gaffer tape beard, bra. Live recording with me in London.

42. Miko (Carole) with black wings, Polaroid, at Bear Creek Studio with Manny. photo by Joe Hadlock

43. The day in my life I met electronic pioneer Dr. Robert Moog at Two Lines Music in New York.

44. My friend Robbie Stoneman in a play. He introduced me to Brian Phraner and Medusa. THANK YOU

45. Ghostly green control room at Transporterraum NYC, circa 2001. From old video in Night Vision mode

46. Actual contact sheet, photo session on roof 127 E. 2nd Street NYC. Debe and I, last junkie days

47. Gorgeous wood room with Steinway piano, Fender Rhodes, Bear Creek Studio— Woodinville, WA.

48. Jordi of Satellites, now called Cicely Satellites. From video we shot in Mallorca by Marc Swadel

49. The wonderful Nick Valensi all tied up during Is This It, Transporterraum NYC. courtesy of The Strokes

50. My teacher and great musician Brian Phraner in front of Medusa painting. Skagit Valley days

51. My ultra rare EMS Synthi- A (used creatively by Brian Eno), here in the back of a white limo at JFK  

Let me know if you have any questions about these! There will be a comprehension and memory test…. later.