Loading details…
about this album
I made this album in 1974 after leaving my job at 3M Company. It was quite a leap of faith to go from ten years as a corporate man to life in the unknown world of artist musician. But the yearning was so strong I could not resist. The synth was a brand new, never before instrument back then. I purchased a Moog Sonic Six, an Ovation acoustic guitar, a bunch of recording equipment, set up my own recording studio in my basement and spent a year trying to express the world as it was around me. I never really made music before this. The cover was a take off of a Total Cereal box, my parody of commercial music. The name Program Ten is homage to the Beatle's White Album Revolution Number 9. I was fascinated by John Lennon's experiments with sound collage, inspired by avant composers like John Cage. Mainly I was trying to express the times. So I spent the next year or so perfecting what I hoped would be my original sound. The sixties started our innocent then descended into a kind of madness. The assassinations. JFK. Vietnam, riots in the streets, the Cold War all mixed up with flower power. The world really did seem crazy. That's what this album is about. I strummed my brand new guitar, experimented with all those knobs and buttons on my Moog, eventually I was inspired to write Sunday Morning Song, The User, and Going For A Ride. From there, dreamies was a labor of love. I love my first album. I got the name dreamies from sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov. His short story Dreaming Is
![Dreamies (2006 Special Edition) [Remastered]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/1d0aeda63c3cc7402479aa12a6555ac6.png)