Is there more unreleased material from the Music Machine era?
[Note: Much of what Bonniwell discusses in the following passages subsequently came out on the Sundazed CDs Beyond the Garage and Ignition.) It’s a whole album. I have the four original songs–actually, five if you count “Point of No Return”–from the Original Sound Paul Buff four-track recording of the four demo songs the Ragamuffins did at Original Sound, before we were signed, before we met Art LaBoe or anything. We just went up to that studio, and as destiny would have it, that’s where we ended up for the first album. But we recorded four songs that I wrote specifically for the Music Machine. It’s the very first rock recordings I ever made, and those four will be on there. The name of the album will be called Ignitionfor that reason, because it was the very first one. Then it will be First Gear, Slam Shift, and then into my studio inventions over the years. So it chronicles the unreleased material. Because I would take the band into–when we finished a gig at one, two o’clock in th
