Here’s a crazy fun fact! Would you believe that Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and I lived within a half block of each other in 1994? Right here in Chicago by Belmont and Clark? Well it’s true! What is also true is the genius of this song and writing from the view of an imaginary friend who looks at the world in the belief that he’s real and the boy he hangs with is the imaginary one. It all started with the idea for a song about imaginary friends. Mr. Skidoo let it marinate in the brain awhile. Like myself 23 is a big fan of comics and the idea of the parallel or multiverse. This is where the idea of what if the Imaginary Friend had a universe of his own. Telling the song not only from the child characters point of 
view but making it a duet by having Pickles (the Imaginary Friend) who believes he’s real and the child he’s with imaginary contribute to the story. Two universes in one song! So the idea is set and now he sets up Pirate/ Sea Shanty hook. Which is how the Skidoo Process works. IDEA – HOOK – MUSIC – LYRICS. He tends to write when he has to. He disappeared for a month writing for this CD though he is storing ideas all the time in his phone. The ideas use to exist on scraps of paper under a stuffed monkey (which may be a song idea of its own) but with technology he may be saving a few trees. But I digress… Because he’s now living in California and likes to record back with his crew in North Carolina there was a bit of travel involved with the CD. For him the funky music groove he needed was where he had done his previous album in NC. The musicians do a fantastic job (I love the horns and the spooky keyboard). He has one ending written but ends up changing it under the advice of his wife (a honest sounding board is very helpful). Now he needs a pirate voice so he calls his pirate buddy (Of Course Secret Agent 23 Skidoo has a pirate buddy) to lay down 
a vocal but… too scary. How about Jack Forman (We’re big fans of this Recess Monkey/KPL DJ)? Too nice. So Skidoo is showing another vocalist what he’s looking for and bingo. He finds that groove he’s looking for within himself. Not too scary or nice but just right! If you like smart songs with a funky haunted house vibe and great horn play check out this song. Right now Secret Agent is in the middle of a National tour, finishing up a Halloween song and putting out a 7” vinyl with The Not-It’s. Imaginary Friend can be found on The Perfect Quirk. So go listen to Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and support a Kindie Artist today!
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