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Hello Everyone,
Well...
School's out and summer's here again! Last night I was onstage at
the Players Theater on the campus of University of Long Beach
performing a 15 song set of live Demented Music with my partner in
crime, Robert Haimer , as BARNES and BARNES. We were inducted
into the Novelty Music Hall of Fame by our friend and mentor, the
great DR. DEMENTO and we played a super rare live career spanning
set of our Demented songs. My son Seth recorded the event on
digital video and some other folks did as well. We're thinking of
editing and putting out a DVD of the concert. We'll see.
Seth
and I are the lonely guys in Mumy Manor. Eileen and Liliana are in
Toronto all summer long. Liliana's reprising her role as "Jessica
Baker" in the feature film, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". All the
original cast members are back joined by Eugene Levy and Carmen
Electra. Should be a lot of fun for all. They've been gone a week
now. I know they're having fun and working hard. We talk all the
time. It's weird here without them, though. Ahhh, showbiz. So for
now around here, Seth and I are just jammin' on guitars together,
watching the games and eating pizza!
Besides making demented music with Barnes and Barnes, I've been
narrating new episodes of "Animal Icons" for Animal Planet and
doing some other voice over work as well as writing new songs and
performing with the Jenerators.
Work
on my massive graphic novel, "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SOUL"
continues at a steady pace, and the project will be published in a
few months from the good, no make that great, folks at Bubblehead
Publishing. For updates and info, please go to
www.lisvoyage.com
And, be sure to check out
Indieclectic.com!
IndiEclectic is a community of like-minded artists who have come
together to share their music in an environment unencumbered by
mainstream media. There's LOTS of Mumy Music available there!
![]() Check it out and discover some amazing artists you've never heard of, recommended by some amazing artists you have. There is a vast amount of talent on this site. The level of songwriting and musicianship is pretty startling. And new artists are being added daily.
And, last but certainly not least... Let's all give a warm welcome
to our brand new webmaster here, Dave Goudsward!
As you can see, this site has had a complete overhaul and we're
now the new and improved version. Let us know how you like the
new look and style by sharing your thoughts in the guestbook,
which I personally manage and try to check as often as time
allows.
That's it for now... Have a bitchin' summer!
peace,
Bill
"My baby needs a mother, to love her till the end, up every
rugged mountain and down every road that bends..."
Emmylou Harris
"My Baby Needs A Shepherd"
March was a busy month full of way too much rain here in Los Angeles, especially up in Laurel Canyon. We've been dealing with road closures, falling rocks and mudslides. I like the rain just fine, but believe me, I've had enough of it for awhile. Now that April has started, the sky is clear, sunny and the temperature has warmed up bigtime. It's suddenly like summer. I saw Bob Dylan in concert again a few weeks ago. He played the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Blvd. A great place to hear music. I had a wonderful seat right up in the front. It's always a great treat to see Bob live. Any chance you get to experience that for yourself, I highly recommend you do. I also wrapped up a new movie of the week for the Sci Fi Channel in March. The film is called "Shock Wave". It's a thriller. I play "Major Heath", a Pentagon military officer tracking a top secret mission gone awry. My scenes are all with Michael Dorn, whom I'm sure you'll remember from his many years on Star Trek: Next Generation and Deep Space Nine as "Worf". He plays the General and he outranks me. We had a very good time working together. Michael's a nice guy and a total professional. The film should air towards the end of the year. Should be fun to see. I've also been narrating a new batch of "Animal Icon" episodes for the Animal Planet Network. I enjoy doing that series very much and I hope you enjoy watching and hearing it! I continue to be the "official voice" of Farmer's Insurance, and I just completed a few new commercials for them last week.
Michal Dutkiewitz's busy in Australia drawing away at a frantic pace even as I type these words. The 300 page graphic novel with 200 new pages completing my story left unfinished over 11 years ago is due off the press sometime in July 2005. For more info and steady updates from me and the rest of the Bubblehead team, or advance orders go to: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SOUL . This year, 2005, marks the 40th anniversary of Lost in Space! WOW! Time is so weird. I remember those days so clearly! Doesn't seem like 40 years ago... Anyway, there will be some very cool Lost in Space stuff happening down the line and some very cool new LIS merchandise coming out. ("Voyage to the Bottom of the Soul" definitely gets my vote as the coolest, though!)
Barnes and Barnes have not one, not two, but THREE CD's being simultaneously released on Oglio Records imminently. "Amazing Adult Fantasy", "Sicks" and our often rumored but never released 1983 "Kodovoner" album. All will be coming your way very soon. All will feature many bonus cuts and in depth liner notes written by yours truly. The original designs are embellished for reissue by the multi talented Angela Cartwright, and of course, "Kodovoner" is an all new design by Ange.(She also designed "Los Angeles Times" CD.) All you B&B fans should have a field day with these. I suggest you check out http://www.voobaha.com/ as well as the voobaha chat group at yahoo.com for more B&B stuff.
Now... as for my SOLO music... LOTS of BIG news... The record company that puts out my solo projects, Renaissance Records, has been going through a "reorganizing" process that has stalled the release of my next solo album which has been completed for quite awhile now titled, "Los Angeles Times". I'm happy to report that Renaissance now has new distribution in place and will be getting Mumy product out to stores and websites very very soon. However, their initial release will be a slightly revamped "Ghosts" CD. "Ghosts" is a compilation disc from last year, a "best of" if you will, that also featured several brand new recordings of mine. Well, the NEW version of Ghosts will include "The Ballad of William Robinson" and should be coming out any day now. Then in the fall, "Los Angeles Times" will follow. But in the meantime...
i've also been writing and recording a lot of new songs lately. Thanks to indieclectic, I'll be adding new Mumy Music to the site all the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll be adding a whole new "demo" album of the new songs there real soon! And I'm thinking of putting out a live collection from the solo acoustic shows I've recorded. So...remember where to go... http://www.indieclectic.com until I'm listed as a founding member, which will be any moment now, just type Bill Mumy in the white right top window and you will go to my page where you can click on my music to download... including Los Angeles Times.
Plenty of other "possible" projects that could "happen" at any
moment, but until they're "real" we'll leave them off this update.
"Riders on the storm, into this house we're born, into this world
we're thrown, like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan, riders on
the storm..."
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