Hi Peter:
While putting up the Micek family Christmas tree last night, my wife and I engaged in another of our favorite holiday traditions -- listening to the Chris Stamey & Friends X-Mas LP.
I was wondering if you have any tales from the sessions you'd like to share (Or Chris or Will, for that matter)? It seems like it was a fun record to make.
The dBs' rendition of "Feliz Navidad" remains a particular favorite. If I'm guessing correctly, it sounds like you guys had gotten into the eggnog by the time someone pressed the "record" button for that tune.
For what it's worth, we twisted around the living room for that one. :)

Best,
John.

I can't remember much of the recording sessions for the dB's tracks on Chris' Christmas record. The clarinet was played by Walter Williams, the director of the "Amplifier" video. Gilbert Nestor III played the surly lead lines; he was our soundman, and he was the lead guitarist for Wipe Me, Mommy. Jeff did the falsetto. I was Elvis Navidad. "O Holy Night" was done in an afternoon in Coyote Studio (at that point, it was located in the Del-Lords' practice space in the Music Building across the hall from ours on the sixth floor.) That was the first song I ever released on which I played all the instruments and sang all the harmonies. On "Christmas Time", interestingly, I did not play an instrument, just sang on it. The cover photo was taken on a blisteringly hot day in Hoboken in the house where Chris and I were sometime occupants. We could either run the air-conditioning (very cool) or the photographic lights (hot on a cool day). The fuses kept blowing, too. That explains the, er, glistening effect on some of our faces. Ho ho ho.

Oh, it occurred to me that the Miller Beer ad was the basis for the recording of "Christmas Time". Wasn't the picture from that ad somewhere on this site at one point?

Thanks Jake. Would anyone care to identify all the lost souls in the picture?