Name: 10 Clean by Joel Simches
Duration: 4 min 57 s
Description: Curious Ritual track performed live for a WBCN radio broadcast recorded at Squid Hell circa 1997

Music from Eddie Japan, Parts Per Million, Mellow Bravo, Exit 18, Wheat, Adi Sun,  The Jacklights, Kid Gulliver, Taken By Vultures, Dug McCormack, JFaith, STL GLD, The Dogmatics, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, Safiya, Caspian, and Songs of the Week | playlist and poll at bostonemissions.com/playlist61821

Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood
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Happy Summer. Show is off next week. I'm out of town for my birthday!

Boston Emissions

+ June 18, 2021

Pride and Innocence

Special Episode – Interview with Joe C, Joel S, and Johnny B of Total Mass Retain – January 2023

In this special episode we catch up with Joe Cass, Joel Simches, and Johnny Bruhns of the Yes tribute band Total Mass Retain.  It’s been about a year since we’ve chatted together and it was great to talk about the wonderful music of Yes.  It was the first time for us at the Palaver to meet guitarist Johnny Bruhns and we were thrilled to hear his perspective of the music that we all enjoy so much.  Joe and Joel, as usual, bring their unbridled enthusiasm to the conversation.  As one might expect, we cover a broad range of topics from setlists to future plans.  As this is published, we are gearing up to see TMR at the City Winery in Philadelphia for what promises to be a “kick ass” show.

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Theme music provided by: Dave DeWhitt

Special Episode - Interview With Joe C, Joel S, And Johnny B Of Total Mass Retain - January 2023

Curious Ritual track performed live for a WBCN radio broadcast recorded at Squid Hell circa 1997

10 Clean

SCS20  - Total Mass Retain, Kennett Square PA

Words cannot describe the fun contained in this Special Concert Series edition of the Palaver.  This conversation took place immediately after TMR’s show at the Kennett Flash.  Not only were Joe, Paul and Ken all together (always a treat) they are joined by Joey, Mark and Joel of Total Mass Retain and Tom and Ann from ProgStock ALL at Paul’s kitchen table.  A lively conversation took place.  Ken’s excellent sound engineering captures levels of detail not normally available on the Palaver including the slightly noisy introduction of a pack of gummy bears to the festivities in the middle.  This Palaver may be a bit different but we hope this recording captures the fun and joy of a group of friends having a great time in each other’s company.  Our deepest thanks to our friends who joined us on this one.

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Theme music provided by: Dave DeWhitt

SCS20 - Total Mass Retain, Kennett Square PA

An anti-whaling song written by Jeff Kalmar. Half was recorded live at the SHOWPLACE in DOVER NJ, but the tape ran out. 2nd part from Kimberly's and joined. there is a slight tempo difference, and the room sizes were much different. Showplace was huge, room mics for both halves of the recording. The band members arranged this, and contributed ideas and linked them all.

The Eternal Death Cry
Lonely Aetherium, free in the sea,
Listening for cries of your kind
Taken by slaughterers no more remain,
Watch as they circle - you can't understand
On, on they run, in the life of a machine
Rising on pillars of steel
Blood churns the salt water crystal in their veins
Wandering death on the sea
You've sailed with the Eskimo, run with the seal,
Followed the ice from the pole
Gazed at the Midnight Sun, spawned in the south,
The cold Arctic summer, the iron they hurl,
On, on they run, in the life of a machine,
Rising on pillars of steel,
Hopeless the cause, life is closing on the prey,
Hearts numbed by spray guide the wheel.
We once were the mighty, the rules of vast crystal caves
The chambers are empty now, no voices call but the waves
There is silence, silence, in the halls of the King
Where a hundred thousand voices strong once gathered to sing
Was it winter? Was it death in disguise?
In the morning only sorrow and the murderers' cries
Can you hear me? Do you know me? When I've been long away
Will the children still remember what I say?
The ocean was living then, now daylight finds me alone
My kind gone, they've taken all, I cant even honor their bones
Only silence, silence, lives with me in the deep
I am hiding, I am waiting In the castle's last keep
Was it winter? Was it death in disguise?
What made them spill our childrens' blood each day at sunrise?
Can you hear me all you killers? listen to what I say:
You and I will die together the last day
I have no memory, lost are the songs we had known
No one can sing them now, the last seeds have long since been sown
Only silence, silence, greets the light of the moon
Let the welcome dark surround me, oh let night find me soon
Was it Winter? Was it death in disguise?
When the cold fire of the sunset masked the blood in their eyes
Can you see me? Do you know me? Can you hear anything?
When I'm long gone will the children still remember how to sing
No songs will echo the sea gypsy's cry,
The moon will remember her own
Sargasso will claim them, in seafarers' graves, with silence a burden too painful to bear
So bravely Aetherium, answer the call,
Listen! Theyre coming for you
The seas die around you, the ancestral tides
Surrender in silence. The wind prophesies:
On they will run while their death cry shakes the world, toppling columns of stone
Born to the purpose, rejecting it they die,
Creation at last stands alone.

Once UPon A Time Volume 3

The Eternal Death Cry

THE GREAT DECEIVER

DOCTOR DOCTOR CAN YOU SEE I CAN SEEM TO FEEL IT
I’M JUST NUMB FROM ALL I SEE NOTHING THERE TO HEAL IT
USED TO BE SO FREE TO LAUGH EASY TO BE ME
USED TO BE THAT I COULD CRY NOW I’M LOST TO ME

I’M LOST IN THE TRICKS OF THE GREAT DECEIVER
I’M LOST AND I’VE GOT TO FIND MY WAY
I’M TOSSED LIKE A LEAF UPON THE WIND 
AS MY EYES LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD I SEE MY FACE

HELP ME HELP ME TO FIND THE WAY, I’VE JUST GOT TO SAY IT
NO MORE PILLS TO STOP THE PAIN I’VE JUST GOT TO FEEL IT
SOMETHING TUGGING AT MY BRAIN TRYING TO PREVENT ME
SAYING SOMETHING NOT INSANE TRYING TO BE FREE

I’M TRAPPED ON THE WINGS OF DARK DECEPTION
I’M CAUGHT IN A WEB OF MY OWN
I LAUGHED WHEN THEY SAID THAT IT COULD HURT ME
NOW I’M CRACKED IN MY SPIRIT AND MY BONES

HEAR ME HEAR ME WHEN I SAY DON’T ACCEPT TO TAKE IT
NOTHING WORSE FOR YOU TODAY WHEN YOU TRY TO FAKE IT
JUST TELL THEM TO GO AWAY DON’T BE AFRAID JUST SAY IT
NO’S THE WORD FOR YOU TODAY THEN YOU WON’T HAVE TO BE
LOST

10 Clean

Joel Simches

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