This was recorded more or less live at WBAI-FM under fairly hectic circumstances, and I don't think it really does justice to our stage version; the lead guitar, by my personal hero Andy "Folk Rock" Pasternack (who I firmly believe is the greatest Rickenbacker twelve-string guy who ever lived, and that includes Roger McGuinn) is kind of buried in the mix. But hey -- we got the studio time for free. I should also add that it's sung, authoritatively, by the song's composer, the irrepressible Gerry Devine.
In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
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Songs with titles in the imperative?
I rather like that, but no.
:-)
If it ain't about fading or graying, I'm stunped.
Songs with a Byrds influence that aint by the Byrds? (certainly a pregnant topic)...
Songs that sound uncannily like other songs?
Songs that evoke a different musical era?
Old guys diggin' up their old music of bands they used to be in and putting them on their blogs? (Kidding)
Great cover ... :-)
Okay -- here's a hint. It's something in the lyrics, specifically.
Re: Greatest Rickenbacker guitarist - Simels, Andy's great, but better then Tony Forte: no way!
Songs about feeling lost in your life.
ROTP(lumber)
Okay -- it's something specific in the lyric.
In the lyric AFTER the instrumental break....
:-)
Songs with references to wheels or going around?
(Nice song, needs a little production work)
Songs with Smiles?
Something specific in the lyric IMMEDIATELY after the insrumental break...
God, I'm being so good to you folks...
:-)
Songs about moonlight?
"Fade into Grey" is one of my all time favorite Floor Model songs.
ROTP(lumber)
Is it about...open field farming ?
GB
Songs about wheels?
Songs about wheels rolling
They have ears but they will not hear....
:-)
Amazing to hear this again without cracks and hiss. There had been a film around this time called Fade into Grey starring the actor from Breaking Away, and I somehow always associated the two. Someone must have lost their job letting us use WBAI's studio, but I think Lynne Samuels played these tracks on a show during the next few weeks. I played the solo on a Hagstrom 12-string which recorded better than the Rick. On the solo, I'm definitely in Byrdsville but I was also aspiring (in my mind, that is) Tom Verlaine's solo in There's A Reason. - AP
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