Time Capsule

Recently, Ross found some of the "Adolph sessions", which were recorded November 7, 2004 in the big, bad studio at the Auraria campus by the one and only Chris Adolph. I can sort of make out the phantasmal backing vocals on the chorus. Those singers were Marie Litton, Joe Sampson, and "some dude from the DU recording school that was there helping Chris". This is the only existing track, which is complete with studio chatter during the solo (I'll bet that the talk back microphone was left on by accident--this seems to happen a lot). The others aren't complete, and Chris has misplaced the DAT tapes, so they never will be. It sounds pretty nice; I've got a couple of gripes, but no big ones. I'm glad that these recordings surfaced. That wicked Abby Road console sure did sound nice.

Lost And Found Three (this post actually took some effort)

I recently got into my head that I ought to do something about all of my digital music that doesn't have an artist tag. Over the years, I've had several knackered hard drives, so it's pretty amazing that anything is intact. I'm convinced that the ipod did some interesting stuff to some of the files. I found Smog's Forgotten Foundation among the mystery files. I also found some Big Black bootlegs, which are pretty great. The "auto-tag" function in Winamp is pretty good, but it doesn't help for King Crimson bootlegs, or some other unidentifiable cool stuff.

It did help out with a lot of strange stuff that I don't remember stealing/downloading--most of it seems to be relatively far-out stuff. I didn't bother to double-check to make sure that the software was right, though. Check it out (and let me know if I've got something wrong):

• Aphrodite's Child - You Always Stand In My Way (3:54) -- Reminds me of Roky Erickson with the painful-sounding vocals; I love the stutter bass line; this song should've had a cool change.
  

• Los Iberos - Corto Y Ancho (2:10) -- Finally, a song that I can relate to.
  

• The Blues Magoos - Sometimes I Think About (4:13) -- I dig the organ sound.
  

• Ways & Means - Make The Radio A Little Louder (2:15) -- big woofie low end; horns; lots of echo!
  

• Cassandra Wilson - Easy Rider (7:03) -- I dig the glissando bass. One of these songs doesn't belong (this one). It's nice to have some bluesy chill-out music in the middle of the set, right?
  

• Birmingham Sunday - You're Out Of Line (2:52) -- Lots of overdrive on the organ; groovy, man.
  

• The Zombies - You Make Me Feel Good (Live) (2:23) -- I think that one of my cousins married a zombie, but it might have been an animal. I can't remember. Something is wrong with the file, too, so it cuts off the ending of the song, apparently.
  

• The Tages - I Should Be Glad (2:21) -- Is that 12-string electric? I'm not sure, but this one fits in with most of the rest of these songs.
  

Lost And Found Two

I've been going through my milk crates full of tapes, looking for some very specific recordings of my first band. So far, I've had no luck.

I did find a lot of music that really was life-changing when I was an alterna-teen (actually some of it predated that phase). One that I found was really great for me circa late 1989: Death's Scream Bloody Gore. I always thought that the lyrics on "Zombie Ritual" were really silly, but Chuck Schuldiner was a great player (RIP), and to a 14-year-old kid, it was cool:



And tonight, I'm going to a folk show....unbelievable.

Lost And Found One

I've been going through milk crates of cassettes and long-lost folders of jpgs. It's amazing to me that I hang on to some stuff like I do. When the FBI confiscates my PC, I'll have some explaining to do.
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