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The record of what I did with my band has been chronicled in detail in Dog Days---The Story of Think Dog!, the lengthy history and set of album notes that I included with my CD collection of band recordings, collected and transferred to CD in June 2000.
Our early history, from when we were in Urbana, through the period we lived in Buffalo, including the account of how I turned down a Fulbright fellowship to study in Rome in favor of pursuing my band, has been written up in the notes that accompany the second CD, entitled Before There Was Time.
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Not told in those histories is that I was offered an NDEA fellowship by Washington University in Saint Louis, to found, develop, and direct an electronic music studio there. The cash offered was substantially more that what I was offered at U of I, and would escalate each year for as long as it took to get my doctoral degree. I've always said that the reason I turned this offer down was because I really didn't want to go to Saint Louis, and did not know of anyone worth knowing from the world of new music there, so preferred to remain in Urbana for my graduate work, all of which was quite true. What I have never admitted ``out loud'' until this writing but always knew is that I was at least a little bit terrified of the astonishing opportunity, and felt somewhat unqualified to accept it.
My band albums were assembled from old tapes in reverse chronological order. The first one presents our best (later) work. Believing there would never be another CD, I wrote the elaborate history. After it was completed, Tom and Ellen McFaul unearthed a tape of our earlier recordings, which led to my creating the second set of notes, with additional information and anecdotes that were not included with the first volume.
After the band broke up, other than continuing to work until 1983 as a music engraver, for various practical reasons that are well known to my family and friends, I no longer pursued music as a profession, but deliberately took up a more conventional sort of lifestyle.
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