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Re: (TV) Verlaine talks About Adventure
>7. Ain't That Nothin'- written on piano a week before we went into the
>studio. It was originally
> about someone I use to know, but now it's
>not. It was 12 minutes long
> but faded it @ 5-1/2 minutes.(Oooohhhh!
>where is the rest)
>
>
>
>wasn't this played live in earlier tv sets???
>
>
Not on any TV tapes that I've heard. They may have performed it before
the LP's release after recording it. They did do shows after leaving
Bearsville
Studios. Is that what you mean? M T C
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: jpg@sirius.com [mailto:jpg@sirius.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:42 AM
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) Verlaine talks About Adventure
>
>
>Thanks for this one.
>By the way I love the dirt and gossip! Keep it coming, brother!
>
>"Michael T. Carlucci" wrote:
>
>
> Philip & I are finally at work on the NYC 70's Punk Museum. In among my
>
>mess of ephemera is a press kit for Adventure. Here's what Tom has to say
>track by track. Enjoy it. There's lots of stuff like this to come up in the
>future. Watchout for the Hell era bio sheets with interviews from all
>members.
>M T C
>
>
>1. Glory- Was written on 2 cassette recorders with pencils as drums. Used an
>empty
> room as an echo chamber We had to keep stopping and waiting for the rain
>to let up
> because the room had a leak in the ceiling. An easy R & R tune, we got
>it down in a
> couple of hours.
>
>2. Days - Comes out of the early Byrds sound. Guitar parts are a little like
>Mr.
> Tambourine Man played backward. Lrics were written in Sweden on our last
>tour.
>
>3. Foxhole- It's been in our repitoire for the last two years, but didn't
>make the
> first LP. It's a dirty violent number. The solos were done
>in one take.
>
>4. Careful- Been doing this one for 3 or 4 years. Fans always ask why we
>didn't record it.
> Sounds like the Ventures, the way it's recorded. (Cab
>Calloway liked it. He was
> recording in the same studio and stopped by)
>
>5. Carried Away- First piece I wrote primarily on Keyboards. It was amost
>like an improvi-
> sation. The early 60's vibrato guitar has a very
>watery flavor.
>
>6. The Fire- The weird organ sound is an ondioline invented by a Frenchman
>in the 40's.
> It's a 36 note instrument that can quiver a note by
>shaking the key. The song
> is influenced by an old album "Music From The Twilight
>Zone". Another strange
> sound is a switchblade knife bowing the strings on the
>intro. The lyrics are the
> story of 2 people whose interior experience suddenly matches
>up with the world
> around them. It's difficult to explain.
>
>7. Ain't That Nothin'- written on piano a week before we went into the
>studio. It was originally
> about someone I use to know, but now it's
>not. It was 12 minutes long
> but faded it @ 5-1/2 minutes.(Oooohhhh!
>where is the rest)
>
>8. The Dreams Dream- It's based on a melody that Fred & I did. Another thing
>we found on
> an old cassette. It was the last song we
>recorded. We rehearsed it
> on a Sunday, recorded it on a Monday. The
>strange sliding instrument
> is an upright bass; the crashing sound at
>the end is a gong being dropped
> into a tub of water. The song was developed
>in the studio. It only has
> 8 lines. It didn't seem to need alot of
>lyrics, just the right ones.
>
>
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