"To the Moon" b/w "Buckout Road"

First off, to put our cards on the table, this is "fresh" product, rather than "new", these two tunes dating back to the old Honcho days of the roaring late '90s Baltimore.  They've been gussied up a bit and, with any luck, generally given their due.

"To the Moon" is such a blatant Scruffy the Cat/ Charlie Chesterman lift that it barely needs mentioning to anyone familiar with those guys' records.  But do I ever have a soft spot for it.  And the Rickenbackers and cheeseball organ only help....

"Buckout Road" does refer to an actual road--- a mysterious, winding, hilly lane on the ass end of the area we knew as Silver Lake, NY (or East White Plains, though technically West Harrison).  Buckout Road started (still does) behind the quarry and went way up and around, getting darker, curvier and more narrow as you went, eventually emerging lord knows where, behind one of the reservoirs, I think.  It had dark aura of "no return", and was rumored to be the kind of place you'd be likely to find albinos, cast-outs, adulterers, criminals and all that kinda thing.  It's even worse nowadays, and particularly scary if you have a fear of McMansions.  Sad, sad, sad.

JK

"To the Moon":         https://app.box.com/s/nkmcgrsdlbi6epd564ju



"Buckout Road":      https://app.box.com/s/wgw5uu64vdnflmo3yq7r

Stackpole- Keating '12 (5): CCR, in case you needed more

Original RKBS tunes coming next post!  But this one wraps up last year's Stackpole sessions, and just in time for this year's Harpswell Summer Rock Camp....

Fogerty, Fogerty, Cook & Clifford.  What can you say?  It's hard to overstate how good and how productive those guys were over the short blast of time centered on '69-'70.  And how textured and varied they could be.  It's also hard to overstate how little the world needs any more cover versions of Creedence tunes.  But yet again that's what you get here.  For completeness' sake:

Born on the Bayou:         https://www.box.com/s/ow4fvquz6d3mcr1nd9tt



It Came Out of the Sky:  https://www.box.com/s/tn4xwv8f12rm1k31ast0

Stackpole- Cardillo- Keating '12 (4): George Harrison, Led Zeppelin

Hope everybody's Independence Day weekend went swimmingly (perhaps literally), and the summah sweltah didn't weight too heavily on you.  Admittedly, there was some intermittent shelter sought in the cool basement of the Buttsteak manse, but it's summer, after all.

Not much text needed for these posts from last year's Stackpole-Keating band camp.  Both songs come from 1970, and both feature the remote bass-playing contributions of The One and Only 'Dillo.

"Isn't It a Pity" came off of George Harrison's sprawling, world-stunning post-Beatles triumph, "All Things Must Pass".  This was another milestone rekkid that featured all those usual musical suspects of the time (talked about in detail a couple posts back), and we were again shooting for that loosey-goosey, barnstorming feel that we love so much. 

"Hey Hey, What Can I Do" didn't make it onto "Led Zeppelin III", and remains one of the greatest non-LP cuts of the rock era, along with the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain" single.  It provided good cover for me to bust out the acoustical instruments and try and hybridize them to the rock.  Robert Plant I am not.

JK


Isn't It a Pity:                      https://www.box.com/s/2y0lwkevc6i4fnasvgz8



Hey, Hey What Can I Do:  https://www.box.com/s/ifbviwj6qejeoq6mtke2

Stackpole- Cardillo- Keating '12 (3): Small Faces, Traffic

Happy Canada Day, y'all!  But it's back to the psychedelic '60s, England-style for these two hit cover rekkids from me and John Stackpole (and special guest): 

"Tin Soldier" comes courtesy of the great, great Small Faces, released at the very tail end of 1967.  Jeez, nobody much even knows about the Faces nowadays, and that's with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on board.  Prior to their drunky, good-time, groovy blooz-rock evolution, and before diminutive Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, there were the Small Faces.  They had a sackful of great tunes, from the mod to the psychedelic.  I've covered few songs that are more fun to play than this one, and few that are more vein-popping in their vocal demands. 

"40,000 Headmen" is 1968 track from Traffic, of Steve Winwood and Dave Mason fame, Jim Capaldi transient quasi-fame and (yuck) Chris Wood non-fame (he of the flute and sax).  Total gibberish, but a fun, moody groove to set, with room for some congas and lead guitar and keys and all that.

And one of the best part of these is that Stack and I had the great idea of using the recording process to virtually reforming our second-earliest high school band, and outsourced the bass duties to the one and only Dillo.  Huzzah!


Tin Soldier:             https://www.box.com/s/rmqla5lxzje32ipnw0y7



40,000 Headmen:  https://www.box.com/s/urrr791kj54hlo8bj1ca