Back when Harrison and I first launched Grab A Stack of Rock in late 2022, we needed an intro song.  Jen and I had written some lyrics and a melody, but Tee Bone Erickson turned them into a song.  I am proud to have now turned his song into a record.  I decided to have a custom Grab A Stack 7″ picture disc cut by vinylart.co.  I’ve done this before with two other songs (one by Max the Axe and one by Dr. Kathryn Ladano) and though the sonic results are below par, I don’t care as I didn’t have the records made to play them.

Because I’m an idiot, I had this particular record made so I could use it in the new intro video.

Yeah.

That was $60 right there.  For roughly nine seconds of video.

We artists…not only do we suffer for our art, but we also go broke for it too.

I don’t make any money here, folks.   I do it for fun.

Doing this intro video (over and over again) was a true labour of love.  For our first show, we didn’t have the name yet, so I just ran the LeBrain Train intro video.  By the second show, we had the song but no video, so I made a quickie vid using old LeBrain Train shots.  As the show went on Friday after Friday, I kept updating the video (sometimes weekly) to include new guests and clips.  The version below is the 40th revision!  I’ve done more revisions than shows!

Now, finally I was able to let go of all the old LeBrain Train clips, as good as they often were, and use only fresh Grab A Stack content.  It has been quite an odyssey to get to this point, but…as always…I’m proudest of this version.  I think it’s the best one yet.  Jex and Tim both ham it up a bit in this, while a stoic Harrison looks on, stoically.

Friends like these in the video are the reason I keep doing this.  I love it.  I love us!  I love watching us do our thing, in a “greatest hits” kind of video.

I think this is the best one yet, until the next one.