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  • From: "G.T. Tyson" <gtyson AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: trying it again: help with song ID please!!!
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:56:58 GMT

Okay, I'll begin by saying I honestly have no idea about the band,
the
song's title or anything else. I heard it just once thirty-some yeats
ago, and there is always the chance it could have been something in a
dream. I post this thing about once a year. Maybe this will be the
year someone recognizes it and tells me the band and title.
It starts out with one (female?) voice accompanied by acoustic
guitar, sounding far away with much reverb. When the music comes around
to the instrumental break between verses, the entire band crashes in
with bass and drums and an insanely distorted fuzztone guitar, which
wails and squalls away like a buzzsaw. Maybe it was an early
synthesizer. At any rate, the band goes totally nuts for the duration
of the bridge and then suddenly goes silent again except for the solo
voice and guitar. The metallic guitar shows up in the bridge between
the second and third verses and the entire band accompanies the singer
to the conclusion.
The lyrics had something to do with "walking alone in the night,
looking for the sun, constantly". Note: this is definitely NOT the
Doors song of similar title. The word "constantlyyyyyyyyyyyy" figures
largely in the final verse. The acoustic guitar reminds me of
"Question" by the Moody Blues, but it wasn't them either.
I know this isn't much to go on, but this is all I know about the
song.
I'm thinking it was early acid/psychedelic rock, but it could have
also been some earlier folk group trying to be avant-garde. I heard it
on the radio around 1971, but no one answered the phone when I called
the station. Hell, maybe it *was* a dream.
If the aforementioned description rings a bell with you, please
speak
up. Off-list email replies are OK. If not, I'll see ya next year.

GTT




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