A mammoth day of pushing through the rhythm tracks:
“Elephant in the Chatroom’: spill the beans, are we all too blind to see?….. a song that emerged from jamming together.
‘Let the Four Winds Blow’: Jim’s song in gospel style.…
Three tracks laid down on Day Three:
Sam’s ‘Still here’ examines how you prepare your kids to be independent……. and then they are. A touch of ‘Oye como va’ without an obvious Latin feel. There are a few parts left…
Almost 32 years now since our farewell concert and album, here we are in the studio again.
Jim’s ‘Old Enough to Know Better’ is in the bag, surprisingly folky compared to its country rock beginnings. Jim drives the thing with…
Our first day of recording…….
10am. The first track tackled linked us with the 1978 farewell concert….. then it was an eight bar round, ‘Peace n the Fire’, written and sung as the encore for that sole occasion.
This…
From left to right: Duffel Coat n’ Carrierbag Boy, Smocker, Up-a-Height Cap Man, Harris Tweed Bunnet Man, and Mitten Stripe
Edinburgh fringe 1977
We cycled on pushbikes up and down Princes Street wearing these habits, during the main Edinburgh Fringe procession. Gordon Strachan dressed up as John Knox (considered the founder of the Presbyterians) who was hand in hand…
1976 Edinburgh Fringe programme page for 10.30pm concerts at The Netherbow.
Caedmon’s farewell performance in 1978….. the last public performance before their comeback gigs of the 7th and 8th May 2010.
c1977 (Edinburgh Fringe?)
Sam wears Snoopy, Angela goes angelic, Simon sports straw and Jim juxtaposed in jade (his wrap over kimono fashioned on the flat’s sewing machine by his own fair hand). Ken presumably stage left with camera?
Note Caedmon’s…
Carolyn (sound woman for Caedmon at this time), Sam, Sally and Lance (Lance Stone wrote ‘Deathknot’ a Caedmon song not currently available in recordings), and Simon.
Martin Lovell and Jim are just visible behind and between Carolyn and Sam.…
