Wilf Brimley's Psychedelic Shack - Sea Train

Every month, we'll be handing the False Memory Foam© keys to Mr Wilford Brimley, star of NBC's popular The Uncle Ignatz Show! He'll be digging through the crates back at his Psychedelic Shack and coming up with a treasure or two! So let's take a rocker on "Uncle Ignatz's" back porch, light up a stogie, and watch the sun go down over Okefenokee Swamps [Fla. - Ed.] !

Hey kids! It's me, Uncle Ignatz! Take a load off! Now what we have here for your delectation is a couple of sweet items from the Psychedelic Shack, but before we get to them we have to deal with the problem of that final Blues Project album, Planned Obsolescence. Now, a lot of folks round these parts - especially cousin Willa down at the General Store Head Shop - have nothing good to say about that album. They use the term contractual obligation, and they dismiss it out of hand. So let's a get a couple of things straight. The Blues Project - fine band - changed their line-up, changed their name, and signed a new contract. Those were the conditions under which they recorded the album. It was never intended to be a Blues Project album, and shouldn't be considered as one. They were Sea Train by then - two words - and the album wasn't a contractual obligation to their old label but a fresh start at a new one. Turns out things weren't that simple. Life never is, right? Their old label claimed the new album was owed to them, and released it as a Blues Project album, which by whillickers it sure as heck ain't.

So what we have here is that first Sea Train album, in its *cough* original sleeve - ain't that a beaut? - with the single included, as the good Lord intended, both sides. How about them apples? That title is what you might call ironic, seeing as how this fine album has indeed been Lost In The Shuffle. Listening to it now, there's no way this is a Blues Project album, and it's kinda easy to see why folks took the set against it they did. There's so much going on here it makes my whiskers swivel! The band hadn't yet settled on a sound - that would come a couple albums later, with my good friend George Martin producing.

And next up, this may or may not be familiar to you folks out there in Foamland, is actually the second Sea Train album. Called Sea Train. Which gets a mite confusing later, when they shortened their name to Seatrain - one word - and released an album called Seatrain. One word. Anyways you cut the baccy, it's another wonderful album, and you can hear the smooth transition from Lost In The Shuffle. If you know what the heck is going on with that cover, you be sure to get in touch with your Uncle Ignatz!

It is my fondest hope that you enjoy these albums as much as I do, and hear Lost In The Shuffle as it was always meant to be heard, many years ago! So this is your Uncle Ignatz, saying see ya - back at the Shack©!