Swan Swan H – nother acoustic take
· Swan Swan HSweet Virginia – solo electric uke proof of concept
· long story shortBertha trainwreck
· Music, the Dead, man...Bertha trainwreck by Christian Crumlish & co.
A town the size of Mountain View
· Layers of Meta, Loser, Songs for Beginners, the Dead, man...Starting to get this cover tune into shape (a Hunter/Garcia original that debuted on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia, and popularized by the Dead):
Most of the time I’m a peaceful man
· Musicology, Nesbitt's Lime Soda, Songs for Beginners, The Reuben KincaidOver the last few years the Kincaids have messed around with quite a few cover songs. Some we adopt into our core repertoire, such as it is (as with Chilton’s “I’m in Love with a Girl” or Reed’s “Satellite of Love”). Others we toy with for a week or three and then forget again (too many to mention).
Back in early ’10 we decided to try the one real song song from Negativland’s class Escape from Noise LP (that’s what we used to call a vinyl record, kids).
We had a lot of fun with it, playing the tune at various tempos, eventually stretching it out into an odd Grateful Dead meets Velvet Underground space. As if often the case, the penultimate take was really the best one.
On this one Cecil Dan is on bass and Rev Bill is on the acoustic guitar. I’m on electric uke and lead vocals. Dan and Bill sing backups. I like to dedicate this one to B, who’s name is often misspelled in the way of the soda*.
* Speaking of which, there doesn’t seem to be a Nesbitt’s Lime Soda, although there appears to be, or to have been, a Nesbitt’s Lemon-Lime at some point.