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Latest information on Ant-Bee, The Grandmothers, ex-Alice Cooper Group Members, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Peter Banks, Jan Akkerman, Bill Harkleroad and a host of other weirdoes!!!

Billy James is being interviewed this month by Sherm Hayes for
the Randall Library at UNC-W Wilmington for their
ANT-BEE/Billy James archives.

News Update! Billy James is featured on ex-Zappa guitarist 
Steve Vai's new CD enttiled archives Vol. 4.
The two tracks James appears on were recorded in 1986
for ex-Zappa vocalist Bob Harris' solo album The Great Nostalgia.
These tracks have never been issued on CD before until now.

"A Dream Goes on Forever" - The continuing story of Todd Rundgren
& "Beyond and Before" - The Formative Years of YES are complete.
Both are available now from Golden Treasures Publishing
**  Don't miss either of the acclaimed reviews in the current
issues of MOJO Magazine or Record Collector Magazine.!!

NEWS: Billy James is being interviewed for an up coming edition of
The Beat, to be aired on WECT TV 6 Wilmington, NC, at a later date.
More on this and the actual air date coming soon.

Join the ANT-BEE And Friends mailing list - go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ant-BeeAndFriends/
for more information.

Check out the recent ANT-BEE interview with the Swedish website Planet Zappa at: www.planetzappa.com

Announcements:
    Billy James was recently contacted by the Randall Library (Sherman Heyes) at UNCW requesting to archive his work as ANT-BEE (and before) and as a writer. Copies of James' books and recorded music will now be catalogued in the International Library's database.

    The next, (5^th), ANT-BEE album, (after Electronic Church Muzik) will be a version of the legendary unreleased Beach Boys album, "Smile". Tentatively entitled: ANT-BEE "Smiles" - more on this soon. - Photos from a recording session.

In memory of a Midnight Daydreamer
Bruce Cameron  
May he Rest in Peace - 1955 to 1999

Peter Banks new book 
Just Released - Beyond and Before, the formative years of YES
Order Your Copy today from Golden Treasures Publishing.

    Billy James was recently seen on WECT-TV channel six news, featured on the program "On The Beat" about the recent Peter Banks book.

A Dream Goes on Forever

Todd Rundgren book is now available!!! Go to www.goldentreasurespublishing.com
for ordering information.
Golden Treasures Publishing! 

Click here to buy this book,
"A Dream Goes on Forever" Now!

    A Dream Goes On Forever - The Continuing Story Of Todd Rundgren (Volume 1) is complete. The book is now available for ordering. Be sure to get your copy of this intriguing book today!!

    Now available, a limited edition of Ant-Bee - Child of the Moon CDr mini! Featuring rare live and studio material with Michael Bruce of the Alice Cooper Group. Also, features rare artwork by the divided-alien Daevid Allen. See Mailorder Muck for details.

     A very limited edition of Ant-Bee - Pure Electric Honey - is now available on CD. The album from 1990 has been re-mastered from the original 16 track reel to reel and also contains bonus demos from 1987!!! All this complete with crummy artwerk - for the serious Ant-Bee fanatics only! See Mailorder Muck for ordering details.

New Book On Badfinger in the works
see Bizarre Books for details

    Billy James has recently signed with a new publishing company in the USA called Golden Treasures Publishing . They will be releasing both the Todd Rundgren book and Peter Banks book. Watch book news for updated info.

 The Following Titles are
 (Temporarily Out of Stock!)

    Mothers Of Invention book, Necessity Is...The Early Years Of Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, is now available - see Mailorder Muck for information.
 (Temporarily Out of Stock!)

Revised version of Michael Bruce book No More Mr. Nice Guy now available!! (Temporarily Out of Stock!)

Zoot Horn Rollo's book, Lunar Notes,
gets released in Japan! (Temporarily Out of Stock!)

 End of Titles That are Temporarily Out Of Stock

See Bizarre Books for the latest information, &
  Mailorder Muck for availability of other books.

    Flash news update!!! The legendary, extraordinary, incredible Napoleon Murphy Brock has agreed to sing lead vocal on "Don't You Ever Learn?" (Todd Rundgren cover from the forth-coming Electronic Church Muzik). Many of you will remember Napoleon Murphy Brock from Frank Zappa's Mothers of the mid-1970s - he sang on such illustrious albums as "Apostrophe," "One Size Fits All" and "Roxy And Elsewhere." He will appear right along with guest musicians Bunk Gardner, Don Preston (Mothers), Roger Powell and Moogy Klingman (Utopia). More on this bizarre concoction soon!

    As previously purported, Jimmy Carl Black was going to be featured on a duet with Zoot Horn Rollo for the new Ant-Bee album. This has now been changed - the track in question will actually feature Zoot Horn Rollo and fellow Capt. Beefheart's Magic Band alumni Rockette Morton (Mark Boston). It will mark the first time the two have recorded together since Mallard days. A title for the song has not been derived yet.

Artist Disclaimer

    Ant-Bee is still recording the fourth album Electronic Church Muzik (the plight of an un-financed avant garde artist.) Currently being worked on is a cover version of Todd Rundgren's Don't You Ever Learn? (from the Todd album.) This Ant-Bee version was actually started back in 1994 in Los Angeles. The song features Bunk Gardner and Don Preston, as well as keyboard extraordinaire Moogy Klingman. Moogy is best known for his work with Todd Rundgren in the early days of Utopia, and is featured on such legendary albums as Something/Anything, Todd, A Wizard A True Star and Runt. Check out Moogy's website on the links page. Also featured on this tune is legendary keyboard/synthesizer player Roger Powell, who also worked with Todd Rundgren for a number of years in Utopia. Roger is featured on such influential TR works as RA, Adventures In Utopia, Faithful and Initiation. This recording will also mark the first time Moogy Klingman and Roger Powell have been recorded together since 1975 in Todd Rundgren's Utopia!!! Could this be the Mothers in Utopia? Watch for updates on this ambitious adventure!

    Ant-Bee will be featured on a compilation CD from a new Spanish label called Eyeinhand. The track included will be Snorks & Wheezes from the Lunar Muzik CD. Other artists appearing on this compilation are Suzannah Harris, Mike Keneally, Arthur Barrow, Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston and others. Check out the label's website http://www.eyeinhand.com for more info.

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