She was also on the first album, Whaddaya Think Of That. So, I asked Susie if she would start playing with me and she did. I realized that it would be more fun to have other people play with me. A lot of them were benefits, actually, for local schools. Like I said, Susie Lampert was playing with me in Lois Lane and I did a couple of my very first shows by myself where people paid for tickets and came to see me. LB: Well, it did start with just me and my guitar. The next month we went back, this same group came back to see us and were pounding on the table, "Do the dinosaur song," and I felt my worlds collide for the first time. Lois Lane was playing all these cover songs from the '80s and the '90s, and then we started playing "We Are The Dinosaurs." There weren't that many people there, but there was a whole group of guys who were there as a fraternity thing and they got so into "We Are The Dinosaurs." They got up on the tables and they were stomping around and drinking their beers. This was sometime in the late '90s, and the niece and nephew asked if the whole band would play "We Are The Dinosaurs," which is on that album. Susie Lampert-who is the keyboardist who worked with me and played in Lois Lane with me-her niece and nephew were there and I had just put out Whaddaya Think Of That, which was my first kid's album.
Actually-this is funny-I remember, one time we were playing up at Killington in Vermont at the ski lodge. Make shrewd moves, bet smart, and hope that one day, all of that pays off. You're never going to get your big jackpot if you throw your hands in the air and give up. Someone described the music business to me as a casino-you gotta stay in the game and play smart. This is going to help great art rise to the surface. We still need to find a way for it to work financially, but the art is going to prevail. The music business has become a much more democratic process. (laughs) You don't need to spend a million dollars making a record anymore. You can make a record in your bathroom for very cheap. You can create your own career without those traditional trappings that we thought we all needed before to get your music out there. So, I think it's a great time to be a new artist because the world is at your fingertips. But if you're a brand new artist, it's a bit easier to come into it knowing what you're dealing with. For guys like me who started in the old business who are now trying to understand the new rules, you're looking for solid ground that's just not there. It's just a no man's land in this business, particularly the record business. We tried to put the best of the best on there and give people a good collection.ĭK: I would say that you should know that one side of this business is exciting and the other is absolutely terrifying. The bulk of the album is collected from the Christmas albums that I've done over the years. Never before in our lifetimes has there been such a prospect of greatness in our futures, and it takes an attitude of welcoming the New Year and whatever it brings.
I mean, what's going to happen in 2012? Yet, there's a tremendous excitement involved in a new time. Sometimes, the unknown can be a little scary. It's cold, you put your decorations and lights away, say goodbye to can be a little bit depressing, you know? The idea behind that last song was to provide a little bit of inspiration and encourage you to open your arms up and give the New Year a big hug, especially since, for a lot of people, this has been a really strange and difficult. One of the new tracks is called, "Welcoming The Season," and it's an instrumental song that sets the tone of the season and the last one is called "Welcoming The New Year." A lot of people find themselves surprised at the end of the holiday season when it's all of a sudden January. DK: Well, this album is almost like a "best of" collection of my previous albums with two new tracks as the bookends of the album.
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