Rebottles and Reboots

These boots were made for skankin'?!

Hi!

I had this EP, lo these many moons ago, called Peace and Love and Rock and Roll, part 1.

It was my very first solo release, on a limited pile of CDs and online. I later reworked three of the songs, and included them on my Street Party album. At that point, I took down the former from ye olde streaming services and Bandcamp, not wanting to confuse the versions with the latter. Made sense to me at the time. What makes sense to me now is re-releasing the original EP on Berkeley Cat Records! Which I shall do, forthwith. Berkeley Cat Records did not exist yet, when said EP was conceived. Berkeley Cat Records came about a short few years later, when I released I Can See It Now, which is one of those re-worked tracks! It started life as a song called Smokestax, and, I one day had a new vision for the song, completely rewrote the verses and made this puppy:

which spontaneously generated Berkeley Cat Records. Do Berkeley Cat Records have puppies? Why yes, Petunia.

Here’s the original front cover artwork for Peace and Love and Rock and Roll, part 1., by our stalwart graphics genius and coffee-overachiever, Shannon Wheeler.

Soonly, the EP in its original form will see its release on this here rekkid label.

in OTHER!

Fab rereleases, or belated releases rather, The UpTones 5-song In the Studio 1987 EP is humming along in Bandcamp - THANKS for your purchases and shares, we appreciate it, AND the whole kaboodle will be available on your favorite fancypants streaming services as of March 1. Because why not? Bandcamp is by country miles the best current platform for independent artistes, with or without the “e,” but we like to share generously hence our mass-foisting to all the streaming media behemoths.

OH oh oh!! One fun detail. Jim Dean, who so fantastically produced and engineered those sessions in 1987, wrote me yesterday, he loves the mixes I did, lo these decades later. I had hoped and thought he would, but, who can be sure? Made my day. Jim sends buckets of love, I am happy to share.

OK! Lots of rain, here, goody goody.

Bad Bunny and Green Day won the Super Bowl, but Josh Johnson’s bit about it, is my personal favorite moment from the whole affair.

As I say in my Podcats, which will need a new episode soon,

We’ll see ya next time, maybe.

-Eric Din
Berkeley Cat Records Cat-Herder In Presumption