Duh. I had to be there get here. As the tape-to-mp3 conversions have continued, I've seen the slow growth of a ridiculous child into a musical man. I was bringing over a set of songs from a 1998 44 practice today-from a particular period of time in which our band was, as Pat G has declared, "dripping with art"-when I discovered a very rare recording.
Just in the practice space-single mic into God-knows-what we had rigged for a recording device, so the quality is pretty rough. But we were in the midst of tackling movement 2 of Orphose the Sphere (words: Gibbons, music: Hylton), a rock opera about a young boy eating an orange and we were pretty close to nailing it. Beauty is in the ear of the listener, but I got chills listening. Made me want to dig into Orphose again. I never finished the music for the final movement (movement 8), you know.
Anyway, for those who didn't have the opportunity to follow the career trajectory of Time Did Yank Us through 44 intimately, the lineup for this recording was:
lead vox: me
rhythm guitar: Pat G
lead guitar: Aaron J
drums: Krista J
Listen up, and enjoy (I hope).
p.s. Thank you-new Dan Hylton media host PutFile.
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What does a guy have to do to get some music comments here?
Actually, based on my experience trying to extract some individual song feedback on Camden Garden from Mixdorf, this is not surprising.
Perhaps I should threaten the world with a post of a practice space recording of Rio Paraguay.
Well, my internet connection is down at home, so I haven't been able to partake in this one. Maybe this weekend. I do all my quick commenting on unit computers at work, and I don't get the luxury of music playback on those.
Sorry, I didn't mean to shame anyone other than Mixdorf, with whom (as I alluded in my first comment) I have a storied "blood from stone" history with respect to musical commentary.
Like blood from a chest.
I've got to get up in a little over 4 hours to go to the airport to start the first leg of this mother, but here I am....
The Attack:
Overall it has a feel of a number of other P/D compositions, particularly the way the guitar wanders around the vocals, and the solo starts like a few other solos , though it develops a bit of a frenzy before it's done.
I don't remember what the other movements are, though it seems somewhat abrupt to have the attack be the second movement, giving you only one movement to establish the scene and understand any possible motiviation for the attack. It may make sense in the larger context however.
The first half feels a bit like the trip getting to the attack, something that without context feels like it could be a whole separate movement altogether.
Not sure if this is a rough draft or outline or whether this is how you imagined it being in it's finished state, notwithstanding the quality of the recording.
I found it pleasant enough, but again, with no more context it's a bit tough to suss it out.
See you tomorrow.
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