THE LONG RIDER'S LOG . . .

Welcome to the `The Long Riders Log` and it's first reprobate up on the scaffold, one

Martin `Mad Dog` Stone.

He is still playing, but has lived now for some years in Paris, where he has had, and is doing, various projects, such as `Almost Presley`, and `Totally Hank`, I think you can see what these outfits are about, just from the names.

He went to Atlanta a year or two ago, with his then partner-in-crime Laurence Barma, (a French cowgirl with tremendous oral power) as The Homewreckers, an album ensued, it was good, check it out.

Stoney is one of the world's leading book-detectives, antiquarian is his business, but hard-boiled detective fiction is his meat and drink, thankfully a disease with which he infected me, I am totally hooked. Yeah baby. The pic I've chosen of Mad Dog, was taken in my living-room a couple of months ago, when his wardrobe leaned more toward `Marseilles Coke-Pimp` than Rock God, but Stoney`s sartorial bent is, and always has been of tremendous interest to those lucky enough to hang out with him, good ol` Mad Dog.

Now that I have a studio at home, (sounds grand but don't be fooled kiddies) I am constantly badgering the rotter to do something with me, and I may be gaining on him. The last visit, he brought his lap-steel axe with him (`50`s Gibson) and left it here, so things may get cranked, or at least nudged, up a notch. Personally, I wanna hear lap-steel thru` a Wah Wah / Delay / whatever set-up, `cos I feel that Glen Campbell in Juicy Lucy-style stuff should be re-investigated, don't you?

I guess that'll do for Stoney, and I'll keep you all up to date if I manage to capture this elusive creature on chip, (the medium formerly known as tape) so there you are.

Please enjoy this pic; let's call it

`Depravity, Stone be thy name`