Bootleg Blogging

Come unto these yellow sands...

This song was also written for the Carl Liss film Apt. D. The music and the first line came to me in a dream. I finished it the next day, on the can, with the help of a copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Check the Bluff Notes on 'Seachange' for the full story.

Little dead children sing A... B... C...

Eons before my good friend/arch-enemy Carl Liss made the video for the song Babylon, he made a feature-length film called Apt D. And just as he did with the Babylon video, he held a gun to my head until I relented to become involved with the project. Working just from the script I wrote songs loosely based on each of the four main characters, plus a title track to pull it all together. Bought myself a state-of-the-art (for 1997) 4-track cassette recorder and recorded and mixed and remixed about 400 versions of each song for Carl to use as the score. Some of the songs also saw the light of day in the 1998 cassette-only release Wafers and Wine: Songs from the Film Apt. D. This is the aforementioned title track. Enjoy

So what's a black boy to do except to sing for a soul rock band?

The "Street Fighting Man" at Valentine's was much better, but the noise seepage renders the audio unlistenable. This audio was recorded a few weeks later, at the Lark Street Book Shop's annual holiday party, December 2005. Unfortunately, it was also the book shop's last holiday party. Another great little room in Albany bites the dust. Sigh.

I'll be your knight in shining armor...

I wanted to launch this audio blog thang with the full set from a Stones tribute show fundraiser at Valentine's last fall, but the audio for the first two songs was obliterated by the noise seeping through the ceiling. Big metal. I've got nothing against big metal, of course, I just tend to lose a volume contest when I'm playing the acoustic. You can get a sense of how loud it was that night during the first verse of the third and final song of my set, "Emotional Rescue." Thankfully the band upstairs ended their set just I was was beginning the second verse. So have at it.