I am listening to Sleep Volume One as I write this. I have some sleep demos, and live stuff, too. I have been having trouble with burning cd's lately on my computer, but if anyone is interested in a copy of something, let me know.

oh, and Al Sicneros is back and jamming, but it's nothing like Sleep I hear. He found God I guess.

They finally released it as Dopesmoker, on something called TeePee Records. It's the shit.

re: Al Cisneros and God - actually, I think he and Matt were both remarkably into this tangent even back in later Sleep days, hence the album 'Jerusalem' and all that Revelations stuff...

Sleep was the best thing musically to ever come out of San Jose, bar none. I was working in one of the downtown clubs they played in frequently and got to kinda know 'em, all super-cool fellas who loved herb as much as me n' my crew... at the time, most of the bands in SJ were trying to jump on the grunge bandwagon and had all these fake-ass Pearl Jizm wannabes singing from the back of their mouth like all the other Seattle bands- when Sleep set foot on stage, people stopped and took notice. To quote the words of one fan, "they just BATTERED!"

Another time I happened to be in LA w/ my then GF and saw that they were opening for Hawkwind, which I just couldn't miss. Went down there early and Matt actually bumped some label schmuck from the list just to get me (a lowly hometown bouncer) in for free...

And I still wear my old Sleep tee shirt to this day.

(sniffl...)