As you've probably guessed by now, the bass player on the above is a guy whose name rhymes with Sleeve Nimels. The song itself -- which I believe, perhaps immodestly, is good enough that it should have become a pop/rock standard by now -- was written by my old chum Andy "Folk Rock" Pasternack, who's also playing the cool Rickenbacker 12-string stuff. Recorded on 24-track during a breathless weekend demo session where we probably tried to do too much at one time -- which accounts for the bare-bones quality of the production -- but I think this is a beautiful piece of work nonetheless.
6 comments:
Wow Sleeve, good song. Sounds like Byrds/Tom Pettyish stuff. Nice work!
A gem in any form. I don't think it's possible to do a bad version of this song, although the take by your 90's band is etched upon my psyche.
why it just tugs at my country heart. the country, of course, being russia occupied poland.
thats my little Nimels
Tugged at my pacemaker,bummed out the cat,good job all 'round !
I think when I wrote this I had just read Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth, was listening nonstop to Squeeze's Labelled With Love on the East Side Story LP, and recovering from years of listening to Gene Clark's White Light album. Steve heard it as a kind of Searchers tune, and Gerry had this idea to do it like the Stones as if the Stones were trying to imitate The Searchers. Or maybe we were just imitating The Eagles. Definitely one or the other. - AP
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