Invariably invisible these days, except for the recurring New Year's Eve gig and Internet excavations. We should be playing the Wooly Mammoth National Park dedication in Waco soon enough, celebrating the unburied fossils of our cattle's ancestry. Don't mark your calendar, but keep all 365 days open. The band tried to take it overground for a while there as the Uubermensch Quartet but the neighbors called the cops, who took it upon themselves to board up our windows. So now we can't see out and we've receded into more or less a headphone band, long on elastic.
Why this name?
A vision of splendor shining through the fog?
Do you play live?
Yes, wherever stomachs can handle it. Couldn't like it more, unless maybe all the gear worked.
Special moments entail looking down at the tops, looking up at the bottoms.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
The music industry is on its knees begging to be God again. It can't happen. The worms are out of the bag.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Likely not. Dealing with people who think they make the world go 'round is a living hell, by all accounts.
Band History:
Scruffy Murphy's
Fred & Wally's
Chapter 11
The WalMart parking lot
Waco High School
The Mariner
The Westover Club
The Foundry
The Safari
Norway
Oh, you've heard of Norway?
Your influences?
Igor Stravinsky and the Monkees, in no particular order. (just kidding about the Monkees). Townshend, McGuinn, Crosby and Thelonius Monk (not kidding about the Monk).
Favorite spot?
Krause Springs oasis in Spicewood, Texas.
Equipment used:
Walking stick, matchbox, charcoal and garden hose. Looking for a wall outlet. Long live acoustic instruments and the musicians who bring them to life.
Anything else...?
The band will be posing for a pretzel commercial come May, or come what may, whichever comes first.
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opening strain of Ballad of High Noon, central chord progression mimicks You Were Always on My Mind
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ballad style, counterpoint vocal chorus, sweet harmony, positive vibe
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After all these years, a recorded vocal and guitar version emerges.
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It's brand spanking new (the faster you talk, the slower your mouth moves)
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This is two songs, crossfaded, paired, married. Turnaround is the first song. Seafarer is the second.
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Public domain material -- written by George M. Cohan in 1904. My arrangement is modeled after a 1906 recording featuring pop vocalist Billy Murray that I found on youtube
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Update of previous version. Acoustic guitar with congas, bongos, shakers and cabasa, electric guitar and piano. Solo voice split left and right to sound double-tracked.
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An acoustic guitar instrumental with humming along
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Guitar/vocals 'I prefer dreaming of heights, flying by night'
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Shining no mythical examples of light on tyrannized subjects we've learned to ignore
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My old dog he just up and left me like a leaf on a breeze, Rascal Pete
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Protest folk rock with classical framing and needless ornamentation
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germinated from piano cluster chords, references oswald assassination; ode to a dancer
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Association-based chord progression, 60s organ and Rickenbacher 12-string. Busy background ooh-wah vocals.
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Recovering from a head blow on the lonesome prairie with a locomotive whistle gone loco.
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Acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass and vocals
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