... Worth the Wait
So I found this box...
Possibly the only real benefit to moving my office out of the house and into the detached office space, still here at home, was the discovery of a large box, an orange crate really of cassette tapes in various stages of decomposition.
Many of the tapes wouldn't play, their tape disintegrating at the first twist of the reel from the years of heat, cold and wet cycles that over time they surely endured. But one of the ones that played turned out to be from a "development" project that I was part of with Monti Amudson; now Big Monti, and Nol Trust; now an antiques dealer I think.
We worked on this together about 26 years ago, 1981 - 82ish I seem to recall, we lived in the same falling down house; me in with Nol upstairs, and Monti downstairs in an apartment next to Stiv; a friend of Nol's. Music was in pretty serious transition around the world and we were working to come up with an interesting new sound; African rhythms with very modern overtones, chorus guitar, moog bass pedal. The tracks don't have any vocals on them and in truth only the first one ever ended up having them. Nol liked to call the project "Lost Command", very into his Peter Gabriel/Sting phase at that point. I know I didn't care what it was called, Monti hated it.
Note, I took these straight from the cassette tape and haven't cleaned them up...enjoy the hiss.
The first piece is titled "Lost Command" and was conceived by Nol as a bit of a military action meets anti-hero thing. I think its largely rather dull, but the precision is good and Monti's guitar playing, and sound is nice; the solo is particularly interesting. Nol added vocals and produced it out, entered it into a "best of the northwest" contest and, as I understand we made it on the album. I never heard the album and never got a copy of the song. I also just found out last year when Monti and I were back in touch that Nol took all credits on the song and neither Monti or I received any mention....some peoples kids...
The second piece was originally called "Riff 1" I think, I named it DaDaDaDa after the little melody the bass plays. This one is more fun and points towards the stuff we started doing later in a band called Boys Club: Monti Amundson, Me, Frank Mills, and Wade Hubbard. I think this song may have actually turned into a song we did in Boys Club and if I find that tape I'll post it up. Wade had a song on the charts a couple dozen years ago called "Foreign Shores" that was pretty catchy. Wade died of brain cancer (I believe) last year out in Chicago.
The final piece was originally called "Riff 2" and is something I still play and taught my sons how to play - its interesting. I titled it "Early Signs of Life", to tie it into a song that Monti wrote from the idea that can be heard on his Big Monti cd called "Signs Of Life". It is a terrific song.
Back to sifting through the box...must be another reason for the move in here somewhere.
Many of the tapes wouldn't play, their tape disintegrating at the first twist of the reel from the years of heat, cold and wet cycles that over time they surely endured. But one of the ones that played turned out to be from a "development" project that I was part of with Monti Amudson; now Big Monti, and Nol Trust; now an antiques dealer I think.
We worked on this together about 26 years ago, 1981 - 82ish I seem to recall, we lived in the same falling down house; me in with Nol upstairs, and Monti downstairs in an apartment next to Stiv; a friend of Nol's. Music was in pretty serious transition around the world and we were working to come up with an interesting new sound; African rhythms with very modern overtones, chorus guitar, moog bass pedal. The tracks don't have any vocals on them and in truth only the first one ever ended up having them. Nol liked to call the project "Lost Command", very into his Peter Gabriel/Sting phase at that point. I know I didn't care what it was called, Monti hated it.
Note, I took these straight from the cassette tape and haven't cleaned them up...enjoy the hiss.
The first piece is titled "Lost Command" and was conceived by Nol as a bit of a military action meets anti-hero thing. I think its largely rather dull, but the precision is good and Monti's guitar playing, and sound is nice; the solo is particularly interesting. Nol added vocals and produced it out, entered it into a "best of the northwest" contest and, as I understand we made it on the album. I never heard the album and never got a copy of the song. I also just found out last year when Monti and I were back in touch that Nol took all credits on the song and neither Monti or I received any mention....some peoples kids...
The second piece was originally called "Riff 1" I think, I named it DaDaDaDa after the little melody the bass plays. This one is more fun and points towards the stuff we started doing later in a band called Boys Club: Monti Amundson, Me, Frank Mills, and Wade Hubbard. I think this song may have actually turned into a song we did in Boys Club and if I find that tape I'll post it up. Wade had a song on the charts a couple dozen years ago called "Foreign Shores" that was pretty catchy. Wade died of brain cancer (I believe) last year out in Chicago.
The final piece was originally called "Riff 2" and is something I still play and taught my sons how to play - its interesting. I titled it "Early Signs of Life", to tie it into a song that Monti wrote from the idea that can be heard on his Big Monti cd called "Signs Of Life". It is a terrific song.
Back to sifting through the box...must be another reason for the move in here somewhere.
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