Beautiful. I understand you'll be staying (and I am glad of that), but I nevertheless am jealous of your dual citizenship. ALSO, I'm almost positive I played "Looking for a Home" when I was Hub Moore's bassist/backup singer. What a great fucking song. One of many of his, as you of course know. I recall when we made music together, just before I headed to UK for Buddy, I thought he had, in fact, found quite a wonderful home with Zoe. But I also recall that same feeling, a distinct yearning bubbling underneath the wanderlust. Captured beautifully in this tune. Lastly, I need some tips on digitizing cassettes. I have many, including a Kevin Salem-produced session with Hub.
Hey Robert, thank you. There was a lot of stops and starts on this piece, pages thrown away and themes unexplored. Judging by some public and private responses I nailed... something!
Yes, Looking For A Home is a great fucking song and I am happy to report that this post inspired Hub to revisit it. You'd have to ask him if it was in his solo set but given how late the demo was in the 3 Colors lifespan there is every chance of that.
Digitizing cassettes is not technologically difficult with a) a stereo cassette deck, b) an interface, c) a DAW of any kind. It does have to be done in real time though which is obviously time consuming...
And a KS-produced session with Hub? Never knew. As Tom writes below, so much great music flying around the ether waiting to be shared.
From a fellow dual citizen Tony I have to say this is a great heart felt post and I enjoyed the Three Colors song leaving me thinking how many other unheard and undiscovered songs are out there from the past for us to discover and hear...tons I'm sure.
I admire your skillful just touching on that other Fascist elephant in the room brought to us by Boeing bombs. So much destruction in the world at a time when with climate change the real elephant in the room we humans show ourselves to just be mainly stupid. I sometimes wish I had a magic wand and .."abracadabra" ...change every gun slung over every shoulder to be zap..a guitar...or violin whatever. Can't be too many songs in the world and I'd be up for discovering them.
PS...and thanks for WH!TK...is that Campbell on bass?...best wishes to them!
Hi Tom, well thank you as every for a thoughtful comment. So glad you like the song Looking For A Home... I did a lot of back and forth on this post about how much of the politics to include or not because like anyone, I could go off on that subject an don't want to underplay it. Just trying to give an honest overview of where I stand and where I hang my hat and what constitutes a home. And no, that is not Campbell on bass though he was dancing around the room a lot! Cheers.
I like that song. The singer reminds me of Ray Davies, sounds very Kinks. I would definitely go to Europe now. We’re possibly going to France.
Beautiful. I understand you'll be staying (and I am glad of that), but I nevertheless am jealous of your dual citizenship. ALSO, I'm almost positive I played "Looking for a Home" when I was Hub Moore's bassist/backup singer. What a great fucking song. One of many of his, as you of course know. I recall when we made music together, just before I headed to UK for Buddy, I thought he had, in fact, found quite a wonderful home with Zoe. But I also recall that same feeling, a distinct yearning bubbling underneath the wanderlust. Captured beautifully in this tune. Lastly, I need some tips on digitizing cassettes. I have many, including a Kevin Salem-produced session with Hub.
Hey Robert, thank you. There was a lot of stops and starts on this piece, pages thrown away and themes unexplored. Judging by some public and private responses I nailed... something!
Yes, Looking For A Home is a great fucking song and I am happy to report that this post inspired Hub to revisit it. You'd have to ask him if it was in his solo set but given how late the demo was in the 3 Colors lifespan there is every chance of that.
Digitizing cassettes is not technologically difficult with a) a stereo cassette deck, b) an interface, c) a DAW of any kind. It does have to be done in real time though which is obviously time consuming...
And a KS-produced session with Hub? Never knew. As Tom writes below, so much great music flying around the ether waiting to be shared.
Cheers,
T
From a fellow dual citizen Tony I have to say this is a great heart felt post and I enjoyed the Three Colors song leaving me thinking how many other unheard and undiscovered songs are out there from the past for us to discover and hear...tons I'm sure.
I admire your skillful just touching on that other Fascist elephant in the room brought to us by Boeing bombs. So much destruction in the world at a time when with climate change the real elephant in the room we humans show ourselves to just be mainly stupid. I sometimes wish I had a magic wand and .."abracadabra" ...change every gun slung over every shoulder to be zap..a guitar...or violin whatever. Can't be too many songs in the world and I'd be up for discovering them.
PS...and thanks for WH!TK...is that Campbell on bass?...best wishes to them!
Hi Tom, well thank you as every for a thoughtful comment. So glad you like the song Looking For A Home... I did a lot of back and forth on this post about how much of the politics to include or not because like anyone, I could go off on that subject an don't want to underplay it. Just trying to give an honest overview of where I stand and where I hang my hat and what constitutes a home. And no, that is not Campbell on bass though he was dancing around the room a lot! Cheers.
I have many many songs only on cassette I plan to digitize. Stand by.
Amazing text. Loved.
Thank you.