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UnBoxed February 2024

Original recordings by the most excellent Eileen @xfckhstl
Reimagined by OUT OF THE BOX

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OUT OF THE BOX / EILEEN OLSEN - Madness MIX

Le Réveil De La Force (The force awakens)(フォースが目覚める)

song for Savage Narcotic youtube compilation Your Music Collection volume 10 
Forget the world forget the people just close youre eyes

Widars spiritual Front - Seeing Thru Closed Eyes

Help me see
Written by TJG March 2024


Rhythm Guitar: Gibson ES 335
Lead Guitar: Fender Jazzmaster
Guitar Amplifier: Vox AC15….set as clean I can get it. 

Fender pedal board: Line 6 delay; Fender clean boost



Mics: a pair of Royer r10 ribbons on guitars
Mics: AEA R44 vocal 
Mic preamps: API 312
Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape.

Basement boiler/heater – adding all kinds of unwanted noise 😉

Someday I will add drums and bass – but wanted to go for this raw guitar/vocal sound for now. 
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Help me see

I can’t see the stars tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
I can’t see the stars tonight

I can’t find the words tonight
Written down or in my mind
I can’ t find the words tonight

I can’t see the stars tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
I can’t see the stars tonight


Shining down or in your eyes 
I can’t see the stars tonight
Help me see 
Help me see the stars tonight

I could live a simple life
Slow it down or take a flight
I could live a simple life
I could live a simple life

I can’t see the see stars tonight
I can’t find the words tonight
Shining down or in your eyes
Help me see the stars tonight

I can’t find the words tonight
Written down or in my mind
I can’t find the words I like……

Help me see

Fading

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Galileo's telescopic observation of the moons of Jupiter orbiting the planet  was a black swan moment for the Church's earth centred view of the universe. As ever those whose long held beliefs were challenged by the facts did not react well. Plus ca change.

But Still it Moves (John Stone)

Galileo Galileii stood before the court 
Accused of breaking sacred law
In what he said and what he thought  
They told him God had made us the centre of all things
The earth stood still, The universe
revolves around in perfect spheres and rings.

But he had seen the moons of Jupiter
Sailing through the void
And knew at once religious law
Had forever been destroyed
The power of observation
Proved the earth went round the sun
And we were not the centre of all things
as we were told we had become.

The Bishops and the Cardinals
Were outraged by the thought
That places held by God and man
Were not what they had always taught,
They forced a recantation of his controversial views
But as they dragged him from the court
He cried,“But still it moves”

Still it moves, Still it moves
But still the earth goes round the sun
Whatever you can make me say
A truth once known can’t be undone
So forget your old religions
And new ideologies
Truth is truth and only truth will I let speak to me
And still it moves… 

We’d like to think we’ve come some way 
Since those unenlightened days
But look around and count the things 
you know but are afraid to say 
In pain of media pile-ons 
And News that’s always fake 
And Those who are inclined to say 
That hate is truth and truth is hate 

It may not seem important  
But it still seems plain to me 
If you’re not allowed to speak the truth 
Then you’re no longer free 
So when they try to shout you down 
With the crazy things they say 
Remember Galileo
When he once dared to say
Still it moves…

But Still It Moves

This drop D riff by Deborah Coleman is so much fun to play. I used a 1980's Fender Lead 1.

Confused (Dedorah Coleman Cover)

Sueños

Il Lavoro from ep "Sorrisi a denti stretti" (2024)- Genuine Rehearsals audio

Virga &Garage 42- Il Lavoro - rehearsals 05/2024

My dad used to go to the bars when I was little and leave me and my brother (1 yr older)out in the car while he got drunk, usually for hours, sometimes all night. This would happen year round but i really remember the winter time the most and freezing. Then one of those nights when he finally came stumbling out we were supposed to go to our new house we were renting, and we were excited because my brother and I had never been there and we just wanted to get there because we were freezing. When we got there it turned out to be a broken down mobile home in the middle of nowhere with most of the windows broken out and the floors were solid ice, likely from the water pipes freezing and bursting. There was no heat in the trailer either. We had to stay there and since we had school the next day at least we knew we'd be warm and fed once we got to school.  When i woke up a few hours later I was so sick that I couldn't talk and had a fever so I couldn't go to school, I had to stay in that frozen trailer by myself 7 yrs old with no heat or food while my dad was "at work" but when he got home that night he brought me a suzy Q. I remember being so upset and crying because I couldn't eat it because my throat was so swelled up I couldn't swallow. Yeah my brother and I were raised by a super dad and this song is one in a long line that I like to think of as therapy. Since I've raised a son and a daughter who turned out amazing and am in the process of raising a second son, I would say my therapy is working! My secret? Do everything the opposite of what my dad did....

I'm still there (Lyrics and Vocals by Jess Johnson  - music by  Daniel Paris Productions)_1

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