By the end of the sessions for Mongol Le Gan, the Dogs had split into two camps. The Randy side and the Kennedy side. The Randy side was Randy and Pete, the other side was Kennedy and Jaco (the auxiliary keyboard player) with Ruby and I trying to ride it out. When the situation with Kennedy finally broke down, the Spanish Dogs were no more. I continued to play with Ruby Cadilac and joined Randy with his new project, the Stan Still Dance Band. So it was the former Dogs, Randy, Pete and myself with, initially, Mel Hep (aka Flash, last seen in Chaos) on guitar. Sometime after completing our first cassette album, "O.K. Nobody Move," Rich DeFinis took over guitar for SSDB, defining the bands sound for the release "Naked In Overtown." As tempers cooled and time passed, Pete and I (and to a lesser extent, Randy) reconnected with Kennedy. He'd acquired a 4-track home recording studio, christened his bedroom Squalor Sound Studio and begun writing and recording again. As our individual demos began piling up we decided to collectively release them on cassette under the name Spanish Dogs. Unlike the original band these Dogs never played a single gig and writing and recording sessions were often spontaneous with little concern as to whether the other "members" were in attendance. In a sense we¹d become each other's session musicians, often writing, arranging and recording songs in a single day, utilizing the talents of whoever was in the room and using the Super Session rhythm machine to fill in for drums and some keyboards. I often wish we'd had a better drum machine then, as the limited nature of that piece of equipment had a sometimes undue influence on the sound of the recordings. Because of this I experimented with alternate ways of tracking percussion. Including simple tambourine and maraca (Inside of You), digitally looping a chunking rhythm from my bass (Sweet Marie) or even looping the sound of biting a Neco Wafer® candy (White Night on disc 6). I really enjoyed working with the four-track recorder. It practically an instrument in its own right, by allowing instant reference to what sounds could be created through layering, tape speed and analog/digital effects. I couldn't wait to get my hand on one myself and see what I could do with it by myself.