He had reluctantly let us record a few of the ones that no one else had recorded, really no one else had even seen or heard them. I think that maybe one too many trips to hallucination land had left him a little too paranoid and he was afraid someone was going to steal his songs, so much so that he would hardly ever let anyone hear them. However, they were great songs and we had managed to record some of them.

Atwood lived to be in his seventies and had a pretty good time with life for the most part. The owner of the Music Mill had let us record there free of charge and whenever the studio wasn't being used by paying customers it was ours, the only draw back to that was that he owned the tape that the music was recorded on, so when we did get a record label interested in the project he had full control of the sessions.

Capital Records had offered us a great deal that we were more then satisfied with, but he kept pushing them for more and more money until they finally told him to forget the whole thing, our hands were tied, so we had to chalk it up as one of those many things in that box of "almost happened" stuff. I have not heard those sessions since then.

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