Ian C Stewart "Accountability" MP3 Hah, remember those Maxell Capsule tapes? Nice. This mixdown album.... laughingly titled Mama .... which came from one of the XTC live-on-radio 1989 acoustic recordings. At the very very end of one of the songs, Andy Partridge sang "mama," for no apparent reason. Maybe he was trying to tack on a Led Zeppelin-esque effect. Whatever, it was funny as hell at the time & I made it my goal to finish every song on this tape the same way.... anyway, this album features an early appearance by the Boss DR-550 drum machine that I got in August 1991. Mama was the first or second batch of recordings. That's also the time just after Evil Bread disbanded. I answered a Drummer Wanted flier & jammed a few times with a nice but directionless trio of older musicians. The guitarist left all his gear at my place, as was the custom at the time. So between jam sessions I spent hours (no, really) upon hours experimenting with his e-bow (well.....
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Also, the last chord in the verse (at least the first two verses) reminds me of the next to last chord in the verse of some Yes song. I tried figuring out which one to no avail.
I don't think I contributed to the "Because It's Cheaper Than Therapy" album. I think I wrote songs for two non-released albums.. one was my cover of Twisted Sisters "Price" and the other was, I think, part of a comp called "Because It's Cheaper Than A Real Keyboard", where I say some gawd awful song called "Jenny, You".
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