Special K is T La Rock’s brother. T La Rock was the rapper on the song, “It’s Yours.” What’s also interesting is that Special K wrote the rap to “It’s Yours!”

Another song that features Deantoni Parks (from Bosnian Rainbows) on drums. Again, Gray finds ways to combine everyday objects with regular instruments to make music. Holman rocks the Wasp synthesizer, as Taylor rocks household exotic instruments to find unusual sounds.

“The Mysterious Ashley Bickerton” (sometimes named “"Mr. Bickerton,” or “The Mysterious Mr. Bickerton”) started out as a project song for a book/cd set called “We Love You” by an English, art group called The Ambassadors. “We Love You” cd had songs performed by fine artists and recording artists, working together to make a song, for example, Tracey Emin and Boy George did a song together! On this cd, Gray teamed up with painter Ashley Bickerton. Bickerton had the idea of being interview over the phone (since he was located in Bali!), and the rest is Gray’s musical styling…
Check out Nick Taylor’s rap below, very cool!!

The line “I’m never gonna leave…” is actually taken from a Windmill song (an acid lounge band created by Taylor & Holman) called “Never Gonna Leave NYC.” “Life On The Streets” is a song that features Holman’s voice and lyrics that attempts to capture the life of a struggling, NYC artist, on the edge of despair and surrender.
As always, Nick Taylor’s soulful guitar, right on drums and background vocals lend the song it’s backbone, as Holman’s electric piano accompanies the tears.

“Guantlet Of Wriggleys” is a song, built around Michael Holman’s “pulling masking tape off snare drum heads” technique. Holman sees it as an symphonic movement, using unexpected instrumentation.

“Figure it out for yourself” is a response by Basquiat, to our friend, Zoe Leonard’s (who today is an important, art photographer) question about something he wrote on a drawing, which she couldn’t decipher. She thought it said, “Wig.” Basquiat’s annoyed response was: “That’s what everybody tells me all the time, man! Figure it out for yourself.”
This all happened backstage, before a Test Pattern (later to be called Gray) gig at Arleen Schloss’s club, A-Space, in 1979.

This song is used to great dramatic effect, in Tamra Davis’s documentary film about Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled, “Radiant Child.” The song is used during the moment in the film when it’s clear Basquiat’s life is falling apart and is near death. The moment is powerful, heartbreaking, and the song brings this even more fully to life. Deantoni Parks on drums, once again.

Holman & Taylor built a song around a snippet of a recording of Basquiat’s voice saying the words: “Eight hour religion,” adding ecclesiastical chanting in latin, and music from the holy monasteries in their minds.

This song started out as an Ultra Brain song (early 1990s sound/noise band created by Taylor & Holman), then, with added production, developed into a Gray song years later. It attempts to capture a sci-fi/horror film sensibility. Docktor Dhoom is a character from Taylor & Holman’s imaginations, that comes to earth to reek terror and havoc!

When Michael Holman & Nick Taylor were looking for a name for this manic, full of energy instrumental song, they instantly thought of their dear friend, who had recently pasted away, artist, Dan Asher. Dan Asher was a fixture on the Downtown Scene of NYC in the early 1980s, a good friend to Basquiat and someone who died too young. Features Deantoni Parks on drums.