"Grey Gardens" on the way: 3 versions of "David Darling"

Hey all-

Well, there are a few new, old and perennially delayed things on the docket, as ever.  Likely next up will be a multi-part posting from "Tollstock '15", but this posting was in the chamber already, so listen away if you're interested.

The posted song ("David Darling") is from a fairly recent and big bunch of thematically related songs, which...  I dunno... comprise a "cycle" or something?  Nothing linear as a rock opera, that's for sure.  Anyway, the parties involved are Roady and Dillo, and the songs are based on the fairly famous "Grey Gardens" history, as largely lifted from the two Maysles brothers documentaries as well as the fictionalized HBO version.  You may know the story: Wealthy mother and daughter, of the Bouvier family, retreating many years from society and living in squalor amid the remains of their Hamptons estate?  Abandonment by husband/ father, mental and physical deterioration, legal troubles, at least one financial rescue by Jackie (by then Onassis), famous documentary ensued?

So, yeah, this particular song is directed from "Little Edie" Beale to David Maysles.  Just to give an idea of how the sausage is made back at the Great Island Music Works, you've got the initial acoustic demo I recorded for my partners in crime (Roadkill, Dillo).  Second is a version in which the backbone (bass-drums-guitar) were recorded a month or so later in quasi-studio demo format at Sei's place in Penn Station North (or whatever the designation is), Baltimore, with subsequent overdubbing of the usual nonsense.  Third is a live-in-studio version with only the three of us from a year or so later, at the newer practice space in  Butcher's Hill, Baltimore.

jk

David Darling (acoustic demo):        
https://app.box.com/s/bj5g9tf21733u3y2e7fcs5cwtd72u65n



David Darling (full electric/ studio):  
https://app.box.com/s/8e3xoap6n3bs6sz94edqadgodz42nkl2



David Darling (3 pc rehearsal):          
https://app.box.com/s/g62pcft3nfcw3f8dvc0wh4anmssakfvl