Paul McMahon

Repackaging of 1991's GREAT HIS TITS with some songs removed and others added. The Rain was another short-lived ensemble. Sarah-Chanderia soon landed a contract as THE HUSH, I forget what label. She now heads up Hacate Music Grooup.

My mission was starting to turn more towards warning people that an ecological crisis was coming and that it was connected to a spiritual crisis within a culture of greed, corruption, fear and denial. In this role I have always wondered whether I was Paul Revere or Chicken Little. I keep hoping I'm wrong and sometimes I am. In fact I was wrong about the 1991 war, which I feared would trigger World War 3. TALKING WORLD WAR THREE BLUES tells the story. Hey did you hear that Norman Mailer speech at the Commonwealth Club?

This CD has three remakes of songs released earlier. THE WORLD IS GETTING HARDER TO LIVE IN is a revised update of the song from MR. PAUL McMAHON. It warns, "...brother killing brother in the Middle East, the dying dream of the dying beast...all the guns and money in the universe won't protect you from a feeling of low self-worth, barbed wire fences and concrete walls won't help you if you never feel safe at all...guns and money, property and such, they're worth something but not that much, nothing compared to water and air, and loving somebody who really cares..." And there's a lot of Arabic sounding wailing and gnashing of guitar strings with special crunchy guitar squiggles by Chester.

In addition to THE WORLD..., ARAPAHO MAIDEN and MY LIFE! are also given radically different treatments from the versions on MR. and STATUES respectively.