FZ: John Cage's work has had an influence on Lumpy Gravy because of his theories of random happenings and, you know, take your chances and just let it happen and that'll be the, the musical composition. The way Lumpy Gravy was put together was sort of like that—I had a certain number of building blocks to work with, all committed to tape, and at one point I just cut these lengths of tape and just shuffled 'em around, and stuck 'em together, and there are sections that were assembled that way.