{"id":201,"date":"2009-03-12T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-03-12T23:43:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:43:39","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-the-year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/meanwhile-back-in-the-year-one\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meanwhile back in the Year One&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having great fun digitizing some old <strong>basement tapes from 1976-1977<\/strong>. In the case of this particular bunch, I mean that literally &#8212; several were recorded in the basement of the family home.<br \/>\nThese are samplings from 1976, from the period before the band &#8220;Auspex&#8221; was formed. More on that in a future post.  Some notes on each track appear below the player. Each track is one or two minutes long at most, in order that you should not become bored&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe SRC=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/daniel-horton-vickery-1976\/index.html\" width=\"330\" height=\"230\" frameborder=0><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/daniel-horton-vickery-1976\/index.html\">(Click here for the audio player.)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Song notes and credits:<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are all multi-track recordings, made on an old Akai reel-to-reel&#8230; We had to &#8220;bounce&#8221; tracks to create overdubs, whereby some quality is lost from the previous take. That said, these are fairly bright recordings for the most part.<br \/>\n<strong>Aftaglid<\/strong> <em>(clip)<\/em> &#8211; This is a loose cover of a Steve Hillage (<em>Gong<\/em>) track. This one was recorded at Monte&#8217;s apartment. Somebody had some nifty finger cymbals, or something, which is what I&#8217;m playing. A fun riff to stretch out on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; percussion, recorder<br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; keyboards<br \/>\nSteve Vickery &#8211; guitar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Space Blues<\/strong> <em>(clip) <\/em>&#8211; Starts with a section based on a nifty 7\/4 bass riff by Steve Vickery, moving into a more traditional blues structure in the second half.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; drums, Roland Space Echo (!)<br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; electric guitar<br \/>\nSteve Vickery &#8211; bass guitar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Earth Blues <\/strong> <em>(complete)  <\/em>&#8211; No overdubs on this one. I show off my mad recorder skills, using a singing-while-playing technique I stole from Ian Anderson (<em>Jethro Tull<\/em>) who in turn stole it from Roland Kirk.  I remember this is the one my mother liked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; recorder<br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; acoustic guitar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Time for All<\/strong><em> (clip) <\/em>&#8211; Cheesy title. This one is in three sections (gots to have sections if you wanna be progtastic). Starts with a quirky 10\/8 section, then into a brisk 6\/8 thing, ending in a lovely 7\/8 theme.  Nice acoustic playing from Monte.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; drums, &#8220;string machine&#8221; (poor man&#8217;s mellotron)<br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; acoustic guitar, synth leads<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Voyage<\/strong><em> (clip) <\/em>&#8211; A stately, bombastic 3\/4 march of doom in the grand progressive rock tradition, or one of them.  Originally called &#8220;Voyage\/Arrival&#8221; but I omitted the second half &#8212; sometimes the journey is more important (and way less cheesy) than the arrival.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; drums, string machine<br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; electric guitar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mental Midget<\/strong> <em>(complete)<\/em> &#8211; This is a really fun number, named for its obvious debt to Gentle Giant, whose bags we were not fit to carry, but we could dream. In an intentional mind-f*ck, the jerky 4\/4 of the opening reveals itself, when the tambourine changes, as a brisker, triplet feel with some nice mod-ring synth licks from Monte. The middle section is a peculiar pattern of alternating bars of 11\/8 and 14\/8 which had to be my doing.  A rather splendid drum break (if I do say so) leads to the final section, a bouncy triplet-feel 4\/4 that carryies the fun to the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Daniel &#8211; drums, percussion, keyboards <br \/>\nMonte Horton &#8211; electric guitar, keyboards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for listening!! Your gratuitous praise, or your harsh, uncalled-for criticisms, are welcomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having great fun digitizing some old basement tapes from 1976-1977. In the case of this particular bunch, I mean that literally &#8212; several were recorded in the basement of the family home. These are samplings from 1976, from the period before the band &#8220;Auspex&#8221; was formed. More on that in a future post. 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