Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Gold's Jim

That's Jim as in McGuinn; not my cleverest pun, but what the hey.

In any case, from 1996, doing business -- in a very Dukes of Stratosphear kind of way -- as The Fraternal Order of the All, here's clearly way underrated singer/guitarist Andrew Gold and the very Byrds-ish "Somewhere in Space in Time."

Seriously, if you're any kind of serious fan of the original Byrds circa 1965-67, this is going to make you wet your pants.





For those keeping score at home, this is an all but perfect mash-up of "She Don't Care About Time," "The World Turns All Around Her" and "Eight Miles High." Plus the backwards guitars from Younger Than Yesterday. And whoever is doing the rhythm guitar and drums is replicating David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the Turn! Turn! Turn! album in a way I frankly hadn't thought possible.

My old bandmate Andy "Folk-Rock" Pasternack, who sent me this, put it better than I ever could:
"I am completely speechless. As amazingly great as this is (again, if you haven’t already heard it), wait for the solo at 2:16. This is like the most breathtakingly great homage ever. "
.Have I mentioned that if you're a serious Byrds fan this will make you wet your pants?
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15 comments:

  1. Mister Pleasant6/14/2011 12:24 AM

    Thanks for the warning - I put on a pair of Depends first.

    That was the most amazing distillation of the pre-Rodeo Byrds that I have ever heard. In addition to the instrumental work, the background vocals were dead-on. Unless some hidden gem is unearthed from the vaults, this is as close as we will get to a Byrds holy grail.

    I feel like a schmuck for underrating Mr. Gold for all of these years.

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  2. FD13NYC6/14/2011 1:38 AM

    Great stuff! Have had this CD a while, along with Halloween Howls, which is funny in being a kid again sort of way.

    I guess he wasn't a Lonely Boy after all.

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  3. pete6/14/2011 3:20 AM

    Wow! This the kind of thing kids need a computer to do nowadays.

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  4. Gummo6/14/2011 7:05 AM

    O.M.G. as the kids say.

    If you did the same thing today, it wouldn't be "homage," it would be "litigatable offense," it's that note-perfect.

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  5. steve simels6/14/2011 8:14 AM

    Oh, and I left out that it's "Bells of Rhymney" between the verses.
    :-)

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  6. Gardner6/14/2011 8:43 AM

    It sure is.

    I can't believe this is the first I've heard from that CD, and I can't believe the soul and genius that made it is gone. It just ain't right.

    Dude, we gotta get you on ds106radio: http://ds106.us/ds106-radio/

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  7. Noam Sane6/14/2011 9:56 AM

    Yup. Fantastic. Thanks.

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  8. wayne6/14/2011 11:10 AM

    A little like King of the Hill

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  9. Anonymous6/14/2011 11:37 AM

    If only Andrew Gold could have produced the Byrds' Asylum reunion. He would have kicked their butts in the studio.

    Maybe Gold will talk to Gene Clark and Michael Clarke in heaven and arrange something in advance of the other members' arrivals (which hopefully won't be soon, of course).

    AP

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  10. danny19596/15/2011 3:44 AM

    Thanks for pointing this out, Steve. The whole CD is incredibly good in the same retro kind of way.

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  11. Business logo design6/15/2011 8:11 AM

    There are no words to show you my appreciation.

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  12. Elroy6/15/2011 6:41 PM

    Wow, just wow...thanks!

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  13. Anonymous6/16/2011 7:41 AM

    How come you can't download the songs on divShare anymore? After clicking on divShare to the right of the player, there's no link to download the song like there used to be.

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  14. befuggled6/16/2011 10:40 PM

    I didn't have any trouble downloading it. So they may have removed it temporarily, or made some changes that temporarily broke it. Or it's some weird browser thing.

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  15. swboy6/20/2011 12:55 AM

    For more in this vein, check out the "Quarter After" and their song
    "Everything Again" [& others].
    http://www.amazon.com/Quarter-After/dp/B0009VI5KC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308545552&sr=8-1

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