The Last Time I Was Here

Why Did Bryan Duncan Produce The Last Time I Was Here?

The Last Time I Was Here is Bryan's 11th solo album but the first on which he is co-producer. Many fans have asked what made Bryan decide to serve as producer for the first time. We asked a panel of experts to answer this question:

Question: Why did Bryan Duncan choose to produce his latest recording?

Answers:

Agent Mulder: He is part of a global conspiracy.

Agent Scully: It was a simple bio-mechanical reflex that is commonly found in people suffering from attention deficit disorder.

Darwin: Short people, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such away that they are now genetically dispositioned to produce music.

Oliver Stone: The question is not "Why did Bryan produce this record?" but rather "Where did the money come from and why was a CIA agent seen entering Bryan's house carrying a large paper bag ?"

Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone produce? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck do producers actually do?"

The Pope: That is only for God to know.

Immanuel Kant: Mr. Duncan, being an autonomous being, chose to cross the road of his own free will.

Bryan's Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why someone produced a record. Someone told us that they had and that was good enough for us.

Ronald Reagan: I don't recall.

Machiavelli: The point is why Bryan produced the album. Who cares why? The ends of producing the album justify whatever motive he had.

Freud: The fact that you thought that Bryan produced this album reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

L.A. Police Department: Give us ten minutes with that weasel and we'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let him take.

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on him.

Dr. Seuss: Did Bryan produce these tunes? Did he produce them on the moon? Yes! Duncan produced this shiny disk, but we don't know why he took the risk!

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all artists will be free to produce their recordings without having their motives called into question.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual artists produce recordings at this historical juncture, and, therefore, synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

John Locke: Because he was exercising his natural right to liberty.

Albert Camus: It doesn't matter; Bryan's actions have no meaning except to him.

M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality Bryan was on at the time.

George Orwell: Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was producing of his own free will, when he was really only serving their interests.

Plato: For the greater good.

Aristotle: To actualize hia potential.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences, which had pervaded its sensorium from birth, had caused him to develop in such a fashion that he would tend to produce, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Albert Einstein: Whether Bryan produced the music or the music produced Bryan depends upon your frame of reference.

The Sphinx: You tell me.