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This is one of the first guitar songs from 1985. My satisfaction with Will We Survive? spurred me on to do some more songwriting.
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This is another 1985 recording called Growing Old in a Foreign Land. I’m not entirely sure what it’s about! I think I might have been reading a lot of William Boyd novels.
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Put your monday-night minds on the shelf…
Dancing
When there’s time to kill I kill my mind
but there’s no reason why we shouldn’t find
something senseless
put your monday-night mind on the shelf
let the music move slowly tonight
we’ll go dancing
slowly we’re dreaming
lightly we’re dancing slow
we’re dreaming
and there’s an empty room here in my head
we could glide slowly through my thoughts instead
keep me moving
if the lights in the harbour aren’t real
we could still turn off the lights that we feel
we’ll go dancing slow
when we’re dreaming
we’ll go dancing
still we’re dreaming
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This is another guitar recording from 1985. You have to turn the volume right up, but it’s worth it for the amusing “solo”!
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I’ve turned my 1985 strummings into mp3s. Back then I recorded my ideas on a portable cassette player through a pair of condenser microphones. After a while I stood the box on it’s side to record guitar & voice through separate mics. This is a song called “Meet the Man”.
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Bandits completes the upload of the Alias and the Underworld album.
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Here’s the last upload for One Weekend. The Sleazy Joint.
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I totally forgot about Banshee Warrior until I heard it on my ipod. I was very keen on it 24 years ago, but it didn’t make the 1990 compilation tape.
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When in Naples is probably the last of my “presentable” recordings. The rest are jam sessions or ideas that didn’t quite work. I will upload these others to the Bruichladdy Rocks tumblr and eventually I will connect everything up with an html index.
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Small Man - Big Limo. It’s a juxtaposition!
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Simple Soul. In my shame I nearly forgot about this one. It’s an unintentional copy of Love Really Hurts Without You (Billy Ocean).
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Several of the pieces are similar to something else. Inter-City had a bit that would be Wall Street Shuffle in another context, for example. This is The Detective, but what does it remind you of?
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As we seem to have a humming theme, this is The Hum of Summer
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Nocturne is the companion to Afraid
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Afraid is one of a pair of “gymnopedies” from my 1988 Noise Control album.
