OFF: Mike Watt writes about recording with Gov't Mule

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Well of course you should really all be signed up to my news list at
http://www.zeitgeist-scot.co.uk (e-mail to info at zeitgeist-scot.co.uk gets
you added if you bung News List in the subject line) but last week I
reported that;

Some of the top bassists in the rock and metal world will be appearing on
the next album from Government Mule. John Paul Jones, Roger Glover, John
Entwistle, Les Claypool, Chris Squire and Jack Bruce all guest on the
record, the band's first since the death of four-stringer Allen Woody. The
album will also include a guest spot from former Alice In Chains guitarist
Jerry Cantrell.


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Subject: OFF: Mike Watt writes about recording with Gov't Mule (fwd)

I don't know if folks know, but Gov't Mule are currently recording a new
album featuring a whole boatload of famous bassists.  Mike Watt is one
of them.  It seems from the diary extract below that they came ->THIS
CLOSE<- to doing a cover of "The Red and the Black" for the album!  Now
wouldn't that've been ultra cool?  Shame they went with the CCR.  Maybe
Warren got scared off by the weird lyrics (one of his stated reasons he
doesn't do more Zappa)?

I believe the album is due out sometime in September this year.  It
should be a monster.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu