  I went to hang out with Damien, Betsy, and Star on Thursday, mostly to make certain that Acid Pro was installed properly on their computer.
Damien had a stack of his albusm that he's recently transferred to CD for me, almost all songs i know by heart, but neglect to include as his official discography, considering lost or scrapped. Lark exists side by side with Tale of a Shadow, along with Moonfield, All three of these were to be the followup to Sunfield, but while i knew that he recorded all of the songs, somehow they seemed unfinished and neglected. Wrong. I think that i had become accustomed to the homemade covers that he made for Sunfield and Jinx. Now i have images and clearly defined track listings for each of these albums. They have the justice they deserve. Although it was not quite my favorite collection, i now have another Damien Youth album for what seemed like a lost period, Happy, a sprawling double album that was recorded around the same time that urlLink Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade was first getting off the ground. This was the true post Featherbox fallout album, as i can feel him slipping in a few of his still peculiar radio friendly FB songs, WGLB sketches, the unusually stark and brittle DY solo material, and some songs that don't fit anywhere else in his canon, that nearly qualify for novelties.
The stuff from when i first met Damien, around '89 and '90, Mortuary and The Man Who Invented God, is strange to hear again. I still very much like it, but i remember years and years of Hammondites dismissing any newer songs as derivative of this powerful early material.
If Damien played Hammond tonight, and had his old crowd miraculously show up (as some fo them lost interest awhile back when he lost interest in playing the same old requests,) he'd get requests for these fifteen year old songs that are clearly not as good as the music he's cranking out now. Kyte has even been revived, an abandoned Blackberry Records project that was recorded in the same period as Jinx and urlLink Magic Island . I don't know what to listen to first. 
