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The Unused
Announcements
When I started recording what eventually became the album "13 Songs and a Thing", the original title was
"Some Pieces of Music with Instruments and Voices on Them". One of my
early ideas was to put several stupid little announcements here and there between
songs. I recorded four of these announcements but as the album took shape I decided
not to use them. I still think they're pretty funny, so here they are for your
listening joy.
Announcement 1 (music: BD,
bass. Ron Miles: trumpet.
Eric Moon: keyboards. Mark Fuller: drums.)
Announcement 2 (music: BD)
Announcement 3 (music: BD bass,
drums. Eric Moon: keyboard.)
Announcement 4 (music: BD: bass,
drums and violin. Eric Moon: keyboards.)
Yes indeed I had planned to include a so-called "bonus track" on the album:
Peter Blegvad and I doing one of his
songs. We did record the tune but it didn't quite turn out as we liked and I may
yet dig out those files and see what I can do. This is the announcement which would
have introduced said piece. The Lost
Waltz
I remembered recording this piece which was intended for the country/cajun medley
of Medallion Animal Carpet, but when I was
putting the album together this piece was nowhere to be found. Years later I
re-discovered it on a broken, wrinkled DAT tape and was just able to play it one
last time and get it saved on a hard disk, and now here it is for your listening
joy. The Lost Waltz (BD: bass,
drums, guitars.)
Pleasant Valley
I did this one around the time of 13 Songs and a
Thing. The lyrics were taken almost verbatim from a book summarizing, in a few
sentences each, all of HP Lovecraft's published stories. I thought each summary
told an amusing, ghastly little tale in itself. This one was the summary of In
the Vault: "It's the story of Mr Smith, an undertaker who was not particularly
conscientious as to the manner in which he carried out the professional duties of
his trade. But he came to have sound reason for contrition the night he was trapped
in the receiving room of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery." Pleasant Valley (BD: bass, drums, voice.)
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