Today, I am an Album!

Courtesy of Zero Hour Records -- the world's greatest record label -- The Floor Models have finally gone legit.

Yes, The Album We Never Made© has actually, finally, been made.

And here's the new and improved back cover art to prove it.

I should add that I haven't yet gotten my physical copies yet -- they're winging their way from Australia as of this writing -- which means I haven't seen all the cool new inside art. I can't wait, obviously.

In any event, when I began the long strange trip that was compiling the CD, I never in a million years expected that this would be the end result. It's amazingly gratifying, obviously; I always thought this music had some merit and deserved a wider hearing, but the fact that somebody else agreed and went to the trouble of actually releasing it is just so great that I still occasionally have to pinch myself to remember that it's really happening.

I wish Andy had lived to see it, though. He was really the most true believer of all of us, if truth be told.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Floor Models

Courtesy of our pal/ace shutterbug Allan Rosenberg, some more hitherto unsuspected vintage Flo Mos photos, circa 1982-3.

Andy and Gerry onstage at Folk City.

An extremely gay me, relaxing between shows in my apartment on Bleecker, across the street from Kenny's Castaways.

The full band -- with special guest star David Grahame (performing Todd Rundgren's "Couldn't I Just Tell You") -- at the Other End.

That last one, in particular, slays me. Seriously Proustian, if you know what I mean.

The Way We Were (Folk City Edition)

Some recently discovered Flo Mos pictures from a certain venue that will be rising, phoenix-like, next year.

The young woman in the striped shirt is, of course, the fabulous Lucy Kaplansky. For the life of me, though, I don't recall Lucy ever sitting in with us at Folk City, let alone what song we were performing together.

A coveted Floor Models No-Prize© to anybody who can help us out in this regard.

Four X Floor

A nice live mini-set from the Other End in 1982 can be heard over HERE.

Andy's playing is stellar, as if you didn't know that.

Letter From Liverpool

Courtesy of our friend Allan Rosenberg, some absolutely fabulous Flo Mos photos we'd all forgotten about.

And courtesy of Gerry Devine, here's the last song Andy and Gerry wrote together. (They started it back in the day, but it wound up on the shelf until Gerry finished it in 2012. Andy approved of the result, BTW.)



"Letter From Liverpool." And how perfect is that?

Seriously -- I cried like a baby when I heard this for the first time on Monday. It's so obviously about us...

Andrew Pasternack 1955-2013

Just heard the news of Andy's passing this morning. I am, for want of a better word, devastated.

Obviously, all of our good wishes go out to his wife and children.

The Vault of Horror

Four previously unseen (and in the case of the Polaroids, previously unsuspected) photos of us, as unearthed by shutterbug and chum Allan Rosenberg. Who, as it turns out, is the photog who took the front cover portraits seen on the CD. Credits on the Zero Hour reissue will obviously be adjusted in that regard.

Incidentally, Allan also discovered a whole bunch of color slides he took of us during the same period; I'll be scanning and posting them in the next couple of days.

Cue Count Floyd and "very scary!!!!"