Thought this was an article about David Tennant.

Catgut - http://www.juststrings.com/lab-hg600.html

As a long-standing Who fan I have to ask - does that girlfriends dog keep licking his nose and chewing up all those letters?

Pete Townshend has been trying for years to get his "Lifehouse" ideas into reality, e.g. using Meher Baba's 'life statistics' to generate synth loops and now the 'Lifehouse Method' for generative music.

Quite why he didn't ring up Brian Eno and get a copy of 'KOAN Pro' in 1996 or check out Lauri Gröhn's 'Synesthesia' which generates music from pictures, including ones of his dog(!), I don't know. It might have saved him some trouble.

"You can put data in and get a piece of music out. It's as simple as that."

Sounds a lot like "Anthem" from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"

Nothing very new about using the dog in the songs... Seamus, on Pink Floyd's "Meddle" was only one of many canine contributors.

As I recall, back in the day The Who released a number of truly peculiar singles, "Dogs," "Dogs (Part Two)," and so on. Maybe Townshend is hoping we've all forgotten those.

Steve Vai's beaten him to it. Kind of. With his cat rather than his girlfriend's dog. He sampled the sound of said moggie being relieved of some, err, tension, with aid of a thermometer (as instructed by his vet).

It is on The Riddle, on Passion And Warfare. Apparently.

Anyone heard of a band called CANINUS

all canine vocals and very metal :)

google more info if dogs doing metal rocks your boat, they sure rocked mine.. with titles like:

"bite the hand that breeds you" and "no dogs, no masters"

soo good.. gonna bark along now :P

I am reminded of Hatebeak, a death metal group with a parrot on lead vocals. The parrot doesn't sing, or talk, it just growls. I am listening to "Beak of Putrefaction" right now, and it is mighty.

and all that to scratch a living....

I am doing a blog about my using the Life House Method.

The basics are there but not much else until the site goes live.

Here is the URL: http://alanweinkrantz.typepad.com/lifehousemethodblog/

Are you sure that the parrot could howl ? - As far as I can guess, it would have been a dead parrot.