An old backing track from someone at The Gear Page, with me playing lead - pretty much way out of my league on this sort of thing, but somehow I got it to "blow" a little on this in 2007. This sure sounds like my Tele, especially late in the track.

Herringbone

Christmas Time Is Here

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Originally recorded by Plastic Penny in 1966, right at the start of the London psychedelic scene.

Your Way To Tell Me Go

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Blueish

I recorded this at Sounds Reasonable off Dupont Circle as part of a live acoustic in-house concert in 1979. I had heard the Lovin’ Spoonful play the song and loved it, so I grabbed it and ran with it. It’s just me, my lovely, wonderful and beat-up Martin D-18, and my feet playing a homemade drum my long-time friend and sound man Mike Leeper created for me. He used different woods to generate two distinct sounds, a ‘kick drum’ and a ‘snare drum.’ We had lots of versions of the thing – this was the best by far. No effects, no overdubs, just me playing solo, always my favorite adventure. Enjoy and spread it around, please.

Never Heard of Lover Who Could be Best Friends

see how the wind blows

My family spent as much of summer as we could on the Jersey shore. One year we rented a very funky cottage on Barnegat Bay. We could walk to the beach, crab and fish off the dock, go sailing and rowing in a cozy dinghy, and my brother and I began a decades-long addiction to surfing. Next door to us was a slightly run-down house with a recluse who seldom appeared, a little mysterious. This is the story of a slice of that summer, when Fred and I found out about the stories we write.
Timing  was recorded in 1977 at SRI off Dupont Circle, the host John Hall (previously with WHFS) and, for this recording, I believe, with WGTB. The band is The Mac Bogert Band (what an ego!):
Lenny Davis on drums,
Ed Beattie on keyboards,
Darcy Gould on vocals,
Greg Davis on bass,
Me on guitar, vocals, soprano saxophone and story,
and the marvelous Jim Harmon behind the glass.

Close your eyes, listen, and be a kid at the beach again.
Thanks,
Mac


Outro

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