How did Babylon Mystery Orchestra get its start?
Perhaps you can blame the KISS reunion for Babylon Mystery Orchestra. I had long since given up on playing music. I pretty much lost all desire to associate with musicians after a pilgrimage to Hollywood in 1987-88. However with the return of KISS came the return of KISS merchandising and I jumped back into my old KISS Army habits with considerable enthusiasm. One of the things that I bought was the Paul Stanley Ibanez PS-10 guitar. It would turn out to be the main weapon of the future Babylon Mystery Orchestra. I didn’t buy it just to look at it so as I began playing again I started taking an interest in the recording gear that had become available over the years. I could see that it was a practical possibility to acquire all the necessary equipment to make a recording by myself so I decided to pursue music from that angle. This way you really don’t have to be dependent on the dependable undependability of musicians. So that is the origin of the idea. Since I was partaking of this ven