Ray comments:
Deep Breakfast was possible because I had already done The Sky of Mind and new technological tools had become available. One part of my character had been summarized and expressed in the previous work and I was ready to do something different - something more energetic and less "controlled". I didn't "plan" or prefigure the album as a whole (I never do this). I simply started writing pieces which were interesting or moving or fun, or any combination of the above and when I had enough pieces I spent a fair amount of time sequencing them until they seemed to work together. Deep Breakfast eventually went platinum (mainly through word-of-mouth, so it took a while), and it generated a lot of fan mail. Hearing from so many different kinds of people telling me how much the music meant to them was both empowering and sobering. And to some extent, it helped set the stage for the next album, No Blue Thing.
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Special
award from BMG Records
for DEEP BREAKFAST -
Pete Jones, President of BMG distribution (left),
Al Bergamo (right)
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In the photo above, Ray is
standing in front of the oil painting of Deep
Breakfast , which was used
for the album cover. An artist friend of Ray's, Kim Prager (now
Zen Player), had heard some of the new music and asked for a cassette
of it, which Ray gave him. Several weeks later, Kim came back
to Ray with this lively oil painting, which really captured the
spirit of the music. |
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The music of Deep
Breakfast keeps popping up in intriguing places . . .For instance,
Celestial Soda Pop is being used as the
theme song of The Seasoned Traveler, the new American Public
Television show.
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