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Cubby Musicians: Jason Gonzales: drums, vocals on "Tinker Pop"; Bill Fisher: keyboard, guitar, vocals;
Brian Weaver: bass, vocals on "Tinker Pop" and "Fly"; Emily Davis: violin, vocals on "Sweet Nothings";
Karl Soehnlein: clarinet, vocals on "Tinker Pop"; Dave Dunstan: saxophone on "Sweet Nothings"; Ben Tinker: That Hideous
Strength at the end of "Tinker Pop"; Fly, written by Nick Drake (and published by Warlock Music, Ltd. (PRS); all
rights for North and South America controlled and administered by Pubco (BMI); all rights for the rest of the
world controlled and administered by Rykomusic, Ltd.) was arranged by The Cubby Creatures for this recording,
engineered by Nick Dmitriu, produced by Greg Turner, and recorded at the late Global American Studios in San
Francisco in October of 2001. "Tinker Pop" and "Sweet Nothings" were written by the Cubby Creatures and recorded by
them at their rehearsal space on Turk St. in the Tenderloin and then mixed at Bill's house in Oakland on his computer.
Jol Perez helped write the music for "Tinker Pop." Kevin Clarke designed the artwork for the 7". Thanks to Dave
Kesler and Tadas Kisielius of Thee More Shallows for loaning us a really great microphone and to Elton of the Chantigs
who loaned us microphones and the use of his recording studio, which was put to good use during the recording of
"Fly" by his bandmate Greg Turner and his friend Nick Dmitriu of Shmoogie during a thunderstorm that made the
electricity flash on and off and we all thought the mixer board was going to blow up or something terrible like that,
but we kept going anyway. Ben Tinker contributed the "That Hideous Strength" sounds at the end of "Tinker Pop," which
was a song he won the right to be written about him in a raffle intended to raise money to send the Cubby Creatures to
New York City in the fall of 2000 for a music festival. Unfortunately all the money was put in an envelope marked "The
Money" and left near the door at the party, and so someone got the idea to steal the envelope full of money and so the
Cubby Creatures had to pay for the trip to New York all by themselves, which kinda sucked, but it was still a lot of fun,
and Ben got a song written about him, loosely, which the Cubby Creatures play with great enthusiasm at live shows and in
their new rehearsal space. The Cubby does work in mysterious ways after all.
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