“I GOT invited to do some warmup shows with him and Mad Professor in the 2000s. Every winter we’d ring him up to see if he’d do something with The Orb – and finally after eight years he did. He came to Thomas [Fehlmann]’s studio out in the German countryside. There was nothing there: no shops, no distractions, only nature. Which was perfect, because we just mic’ed him up, went for a walk around a lake and recorded him talking. Incredible moments.
“He came over to do an EP, but we ended up doing 16 tracks. Prolific doesn’t cover it. His motormouth came to the fore; it was a constant stream of babble – Allen Ginsberg on loads and loads of marijuana! The man wasn’t even smoking at the time, but the stuff was in there.