Pot revisited

In 2003 I did a show at the Tin Angel with Jim Taggart on drums and myself. George, the sound guy, recorded the show and gave it to my on DAT. So I have spent the last three years trying to find a DAT machine. But I did it earlier this year and sent it to my drummer, who promptly made a myspace page for it.

One of the tunes we did was "Pot Calling the Black" and since the version with Jim is substantially better than the one without, I thought that I would repost it here. Enjoy!

One Big Love

Years ago, I was a guitar player for a guy named Brian Seymour. Nice guy, good songwriter, married with a Masters Degree in Art History. Who was slowly building his own strategy, assembling his team, chasing the dream of the "big record deal" (back when one would have been useful). I was playing lead guitar, mostly noodley, spacey stuff. It was a good time, got me out of the house, I did some label showcases, met some industry juice (and their attendent weasels). The guys in the band were and are some of the nicest people I've ever met, at the time we were called "One Big Love". One of them, Kenny Kearns, was perhaps the funniest person I've ever met (and that's really saying something).

Anyway, here are two from the vaults. Nice-n-lazy which was never released (so I hope he doesn't mind) but was one my faves to play. This is taken from a magnetized cassette, so forgive the sound quality (even Pro-tools couldn't help much). I don't really remember playing most of these licks, but I know I did because Brian was honest to a fault and in the interest of honesty he would have let me know if he had done something with my intellectual property, so if somebody recut something, I believe he'd have told me.

The second tune is called redhead, recorded live at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia. If I'm not mistaken recorded the same night I played three shows (two with Seymour and one with Deirdre Flint) in the same night. This second track is on his CD "Brain Seymour and One Big Love". the CD is out of print, but he re-recorded it with his new and even spacer guitar player on his CD "When I Was Blonde", you can buy it here.

Oh, in the second track the guitar is actually out of tune, you're not hearing things. It happened a lot (in case you were wondering why it didn't work out between us).