I’ve always loved a lot of different kinds of music. Just about anything you might imagine is on there somewhere if you can figure out the right words to search with. You can find just about anything you want to hear on Spotify. I love how diverse our choices of music are now.

Of course, yes, psychedelic music is everywhere now, in all sorts of mini-genres of music - psych-this, psych-that, which is interesting. That was one of the times Joe won the argument.

Later, when we started recording together, along with Karl Wilhelm, we decided on The Green Pajamas. We called ourselves things like Felix The Cat Explodes and Spanking Naughty Teens, and we played songs like “Clash City Rockers” and “Little Red Corvette”. I finally said, “Okay, as long as I don’t have to rehearse!” So we actually did a bunch of gigs before we got the idea to write some new songs and record our cassette, ‘Summer of Lust. Joe had to talk me into the whole band thing. I had bought a couple of records by The Three O’clock and The Rain Parade that I liked a lot and when I met Joe Ross and we discovered that we were both into that kind of music, we thought it might be fun to make our own sort of version of that up here in Seattle. The “explosion” we knew was mostly coming from California. But I guess it’s always a lot of fun to be young and in a band, isn’t it? We were going to have go-go dancers and a sitar player! It was a lot of fun. JK: I recall the feel of that time as quite exciting. Can you describe the feel of that time long ago compared to now? Mainly because of COVID, I don’t see the band near as much as I used to, but whenever we do get together, it’s as if no time has passed at all, very much like family.ĮK: When you started, we were in the midst of an explosion of psych music, and psych never really went away. The truth is, I like spending time drinking with these people as much as I do playing music with them so I think it’s friendship, in the end, that keeps such a diverse and opinionated bunch close together after so many years. When we were younger, there were a lot of Green Pajama parties. The members of the Green Pajamas band have always been my closest friends, so it would often be about socializing as much as going and playing gigs. EK: You guys have been together for almost 40 years.

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