Walnuthead (prog rock version)
words and music (c) Dan Biemer
foreign vox Rho
whispers Marg
mp3 available by email request

The year was 1979. An ambitious, idealistic young performer traveled to Nashville, TN to cash in on the burgeoning South Progressive Rock Revival. Calling his band “King Guest and Galadriel’s Flames of Next Week Orchestra,” he proceeded to frustrate fans and managers alike with his astonishing ability to not finish the Orchestra’s masterpiece, the nihilistic manifesto “Walnuthead and Me.”

Years later, Special Guest has gone Missing. Young girls cry themselves to sleep. Tribute albums are in the works. Producers plan to cash in big time. Finally, the former members of Galadriel’s Flames of Next Week Orchestra are contacted (they have all, coincidentally enough, found themselves as Yak herders in the Yukon). Loose Wire, from Special Guest’s later backup band the Technical Difficulties, is brought in to cover for the fact that Mr. Guest never bothered to track a lead vocal for this seminal composition. A famous French chanteuse is hired to give the track some 'world' flavor. A single is cut.

Ah, yes. The restorative powers of yak herding are magnificent indeed. Or something.