Chris Hance
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4/10/2016 5:04:31 AM
Harry Macari - The City I Lived
From the cassette album "The Company Man",
If there is any interest I'll try and find the tape and make a 320kbps mp3,
Harry Macari - The City I Lived
The company man
The company man was easily impressed by figures and statistics
The company man
Express yourself
Not what you saw on television last night
Before educating others we have to learn ourselves
Exploration of our latent abilities
Spiritual depths from the times before machines
Currency was easy
No economic crisis sitting waiting to explode
The company man
Was left wing in ideals but he was right wing in his policies
Controlling the political influence of youth
Through clever marketing of pop culture
Everyone is the same nowadays
None of us looks to the sun
Preferring instead to scrape the seeds
From the earth
In pursuit of wealth
To bleed out the guts of the one
Do you often tell yourself you're not insane
Sane is your only perception of sanity
Believe all of the tales of the television
You will get schizophrenia at the very least
In the city I lived jazz was banned
The legacy of contemporary society
Everyone read exactly the same book
No one was allowed to think
The artists were satans
Persecuted into using the same ink
Stimulants were illegal
Except caffeine tobacco and drink
This is the way of the modern world
This is the way to drink
Turn up all the power
And into the oceans we sink
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Chris Hance
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4/19/2016 11:38:39 AM
Thank you FT, that still means a lot to me.:)
Thank you Chandra, for the station add and your most valued opinion, :)
Thank you Stoneman, the drummer makes it, and is the most dynamic musician I ever played with. the whole thing was a jam, guitar and drums live, with synth and bass and vocals added a in a single take each using an old fostex 4 track, I doubt if I could "make up" tracks like those now :)
Thank you Dolores, I think the "sounds" were a good(or bad) coincidence, of gear that we had at the time, a squier strat and tube distortion pedal, and DX21 synth, and of course, the "thin cassette tape 4 track recording give it a lofi sound.
The lyrics were jotted on envelopes/scrap paper, and just improvised along, :)
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Chris Hance
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4/28/2016 1:12:30 PM
Thanks again D :)
That's the song file updated from the master cassette tape, a new wave and 320kbps mp3 of that,
So hopefully be a bit kinder on the listeners ears
The tape seems to be on its last legs with a kind of mechanical sounding click click click..... as it runs, prolly lucky to get it at all.
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