Medicine Park Recordings - the original recordings unit of Silver Moon Music
Grok This! Defacing The Music Of Todd Rundgren. sold out Copies available at Amazon.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Punting The Ganges - synchro1 2. Chasing My Own Tail - The Neos 3. Invisible Man - Reynold Philipsek 4. Any Way But Love - Doug Powell 5. Secret Smile - Lucid Dreamers 6. Mythopoeia - Zud 7. Release - Barbara Hamilton 8. Open Our Minds - Andre' Cholmondeley & Hidden Agenda 9. Somebody's Hero - Dee Allen 10. Wonderful Thing - Billy Marsh 11. Easy Way - Ditto 12. Into The Deep - Luthor M & His Delbartonians 13. I Just Want To Touch You (All Jacked Up) - Phil Gill 14. Toddsongs - Ron Napoli 15. John Ferenzik - Heart To Heart Connection 16. Initiation (Theme From Christabel) - Don Lindbergh 17. Paper Dreams - Lucid Dreamers
Grok This! was the first Medicine Park CD project compiled and released in 1998. After dealing with several independent artists through the Silver Moon web site I had become interested in releasing a CD with original music on my own label. The "deface" idea had two strong appealing points to me. One, it allowed us to pay tribute to the artist without actually covering his songs (and thus avoid any legal snafus), and two, I actually find tributes based on muscial themes already mined by an artist to be more interesting than outright covers. So after vollying the idea back and forth for some time on the old A Wizard internet discussion group I requested submissions in March of 1998. The CD was mastered the first week of August and by September the CDs were distributed to contributors. This was created as a not-for-profit venture with any profits going to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. At some point in early 1999 I decided to go ahead and make a nominal donation to the charity and then calculate how many units needed to be retained by me in order for the project to break even. The remaining units were then divided evenly and distributed to the contributors. I did hold back one box of 25 units for posterity. At present a few copies are still available at CD Baby and used copies are always available at Amazon.
