Haiku Henry from The Mistakes by The Mistakes: Mike Keneally, Henry Kaiser, Prairie Prince, Andy West

(music – The Mistakes; lyrics – Kaiser)
Another tune which began as a Henry/Prairie improvised six-string bass/drum duet. In fact all four of the spoken word pieces were built on top of Henry/Prairie duets. Unlike the other three, Andy overdubbed an anchor bass to give it some foundation (Andy’s bass is in the middle, Henry’s on the left). I overdubbed a couple of guitars, and the firefly piano at 0:18 and 0:25, plus the synth at the end (all the spoken word pieces end with the same three chords played on synth, a little unifying device for ya there).

HK – six-string bass
MK – spoken word, guitars, Wurlitzer electric firefly piano, synth at end
PP – drums
AW – bass

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

Learn more at keneally.com