New solo CD released March 2002. A collection of stuff I've done over the last 2 years or so.

 
 
1.  Old Black Snake
The  Beefheart stage fave.  This track was done as a demo for the Fourfathers.

2. Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit gets to a Diamond
The Beefheart instrumental.

3. Paleoanthropology
Made from the source tape I sent to Bret Hart for our 1st 'Duets' CD
I played the tape, (which was recorded on both sides), thru my 4 track, so I was able to hear 1 side playing backwards. All I did was fade the backwards track in and out, and I didn't do much of that.

4. Smelly Armpits
This was a jam I had with  my old friend Dave Roberts, who I hadn't seen for nearly 20 yrs. Smelly Armpits was the name of our 'band' when we were at school. We played it on 2 acoustic gtrs, and I took the tape home and added bass and perc.
It's crying out for lyrics or other instruments to come in...

5. Summer Express
Lyrics
This is an improvised bass line I found on a tape, to which I added a rough gtr line and perc. Gilly came up with some words, and we adapted them to fit.

6. The Violet Seas do Beckon Me
Lyrics
The bassline was originally done for my 2nd 'Duets' CD with Bret.  I found a rhythm in there, and added perc and improvised gtr. The words are part of an old  poem of Gilly's, about a storm on Ilkley Moor.
It's a bit dense and difficult, and the 1st 30 seconds or so meander a bit aimlessly, but then it gets going, and a groove is hit, and magic happens, imo.

7. Tsaritsyn
Another from the 1st Duets source tape, made the same way as trk 3.

8. Why Did You Have to Break My Heart
Lyrics
Played on Ruth's half size acoustic nylon string gtr.

9. The Phantom Cart
Titled after the Dali painting, because it's Dali's Cart, geddit?

10. I'm Bugged  - click for streaming Realaudio file
Lyrics inspired, and often directly quoted from, an email from Matthew Lewis .
Done as a demo for the Fourfathers.

11. Rewarewa
Part of a long piece of bass twiddling I found on an old tape.
 
 

Summer Express
    Clickety clack
    Your lover's coming back
    I'm riding the train
    On my way to see you again
    On the Summer Express
    You'll be wearing
    your brand new red dress
    Yes

    The sunshine on your face
    With your hat that's trimmed with lace
    When we had our last embrace

    Now I'm riding the train
    Summer Express
    I'm on my way to you girl
    And when I get there
    I'm gonna ride the line
    All the way down
    Come here baby
    Let me ring your bell

   The sunshine on your face
   With your hat that's trimmed with lace

    I'm on my way to you
     Summer Express
    Can't wait to see your brand new dress

    Clickety clack
    Your lover's back
    Riding on the train
    Clickety clack
    Your lover's coming back
    On the Summer Express
 

    The Violet Seas do Beckon Me
       The violet seas beckon me to walk amongst the mist
        On either side ferns bow forming a path
        Colours so vivid form fantastic shapes and figures in seas of merging contrast
        Feet pad on broken beds of bracken following winding weatherworn tracks
        Suddenly an inpenetrable fortress of rock and stone
        Winds wind abruptly up and down whistling
        Moustaches of breezes catch the grass
        A thuddering shud the earth heaves the air is still
        Suddenly dark stealthy storm clouds slide above
        And a sudden thuddering bolt stikes the stone
        And small stones fall slithe like down the scree
        Black clouds menacingly amass and surge and back and surge advance
        Such cracks and whips like lashes are dealt the ravaged rocks
        But behold! The rising sun forces back the legions of black to heat cold earth
        Refreshed from it's rest the wind heaves and blows and splinters and scatters the clouds above
        Ensuring the return of light
        Colours vie again for prominence
        The violet seas do beckon me to walk and think in light.

    Why did You Have to Break my Heart
       Now tell me baby, why did you have to break my heart?
        It's so sad to say best friends have to part

        I knocked on your front door, then I heard your back door slam
        You said it was the wind, I know it was another man

        I treated you like a princess, and this is how you pay me back
        I'm leaving in the morning, I ain't never coming back again

        I'm gonna get up in the morning, catch the morning train
        I won't be coming back no more, you won't see me again

        I'm going back home where I'm better known
       When you look for me baby, I'll be long gone

        Gonna find another woman, one that's gonna treat me right
        She'll kiss me in the morning, love me all through the night

        hey now baby, what did you have to break my heart for?
        I'm so sorry the day that I ever entered your door

    I'm Bugged
       Here come the bugs
        I open the door and in they fly
        Big as yuh hand
        They splat the walls
        Feathery wings explode into dust
        Yellow streaks dripping
        Slapping into the walls
        And bursting
        Filling the air with fine specks

        Can't get no sleep
        I can't even breathe, it's so damn hot
        where they hit the walls
        Mucus streaks of yellow
        Mixed with red blood
        Dripping slowly sticky orange
        Down the wet walls
        And congealing
        Into hard transluscent lumps

        Lost all my lovers
        They keep finding the buggers under the covers
        Big as yuh hand
        I can't breathe
        Fucking specks of blood n' moth dust
        Fucking bugs
        The bug dust from their bursts
        I'm cursing
        Filling the air with fine swears