I was too embarrassed to sing in my apartment, he says on a video call. But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher's daughter, and had keys to the church across the street. In the dead of night, the madcap bassist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the podium, and first sang his anti-war song Too Many Puppies.
Laurie Anderson, the performance artist, told Paul Simon about me and said, 'You should get Adrian to play on your record. He always comes up with interesting sounds that I'm sure you could use.' That's me, the man with the interesting sounds.