Four by George.
From Volume II Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed circa 24th January 1983.

Recorded June 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Four is a song that was inspired by a dream that seemed to have four separate acts.
It had rather a grand scope and several of George's friends seemed to love this song, despite its apparently nonsensical lyrics.
In 1985 it became a part of Wud's repertoire.
George had heard bands such as Led Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath perform a song where everyone but the guitarist left the stage and the guitar played some sort of solo.
This was incorporated into this song, to represent the time and the upcoming change in feel following an event in described in the lyrics.
The piano was recorded at a very low gain for reasons now unknown, unfortunately.
There is something causing a massive hiss on the vocal mic, possibly a low battery in the Selmer Scintallation reverb unit.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume II Side B

Four

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Band of Georges: Four

Loving You by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 24th April 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Loving You originally had three verses of lyrics as well as the chorus.
The chorus remains, but the three verses were discarded due to being "too yucky".
Instead the guitar plays the vocal melody.
The song was shortened to a single instrumental verse.
Loving You is in the key of C major.
The guitar is played through an EHX Electric Mistress and Guyatone Analogue Delay.
The lead guitar also has a Boss OC2 Octaver.
The amplifier is a transistor, an HH 5-Channel PA, with reverb.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume III Side A

Loving You

Band of Georges: Loving You

Flashback (Part 3) by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Lyrics composed 21st and 24th September 1982.
Music composed 13th April 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
These were the original lyrics for the song Flashback.
When George asked Simon to write some new lyrics for that song, Simon obliged.
These lyrics were kept and when this music appeared they were applied.
Thus it was that this became Flashback Part 3.
Flashback Part 2 was another song, also called Hard Times.
This song is in the key of E minor.
The idea for the shouting might have come from Adam and the Ants.
The rhythm guitar part that plays lots of single notes was played as close to the bridge as possible using the bridge pickup, for maximum brightness and treble.
It was never performed by any band.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Flashback (Part 3)

Band of Georges: Flashback (Part 3)

Hard Times (Flashback Part 2) by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies / M. Greatorex.
Lyrics by G. Davies / R. Holloway.
Orignally composed 27th January 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This is an art rock/hard rock song in A minor.
There is a break where the chords are Dmaj7 and Fmaj7.
Hard Times was part of the set of Wud and they would use it to close their set.
It is the second part of Flashback, which had three parts.
Richard helped with a few of the later lyrics and the bass part was influenced by what Marc used to play.
There was a drummer who couldn't understand the beat of this song and sat looking embarrased and uncomfortable on his drumstool until the end.
He was sacked after the show.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Hard Times (Flashback Part 2)

Band of Georges: Hard Times (Flashback Part 2)

Shadows by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 26th January 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This is a song in B minor.
It has elements of jazz, funk, progressive rock and a sixties vibe somehow.
The lead guitar is played on Nicodemus and the rhythm on the Ice Maiden.
The bass is a driving force and a new riff introduces the instrumental section.
This song was never taken on by any band.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Shadows

Band of Georges: Shadows

Magic by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 24th February 1983, evening, and 2nd March 1983, 12:30am.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Magic is a song in G minor.
It was performed by Wud.
There are a lot of D and D minor shapes in the guitar.
The guitar solo is composed rather than improvised.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Magic

Band of Georges: Magic

Too Many Times by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 2nd May 1983, 11:15am to 11:43am.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This song was written the day after That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard and Two Timer.
It is in the key of E minor.
George's Dad liked the guitar in this one.
We were surprised at how long it was.
There was some sort of accident with a playback, a live track and a punch pedal somewhere in the middle.
It was never performed by a band.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume III Side B

Too Many Times

Band of Georges: Too Many Times

Leaving Me Here by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 18th May 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Leaving Me Here was performed by Wud.
Ken could do over-the-top pretty well and did a good job of this song.
The oddly jazzy instrumental break came in part from a guitar lesson George had.
This lesson was his very first introduction to the phrygian mode.
The original idea apparently came from a song by Barbara Streisand.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Leaving Me Here

Band of Georges: Leaving Me Here

1984 by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 1st January 1984.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1984 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
1984 was actually written on New Years Day, 1984, after hitchhiking home from a New Year celebration.
This is a hard rock song in the key of A.
It was a regular in the set of Wud, who did a very good version of it.
Ken would add some strange vocals from the TV series The Prisoner.
The drum machine was unable to do the six bars of 6/8, so it was turned off and back on again.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

1984

Band of Georges: 1984

Lyrics:
It's turning something into nothing
Close a school today
Perhaps a park and maybe two
Put nothing there of value either
Sell the land away
I didn't notice it, did you?

We close our eyes and find we
Still see daylight
But that's just natural when you're blind
I feel unfocused and I can't
Tell the time
I hope that it won't pass me by

It's turning nothing to nobody
Eminent domain
You'll drive a smoother 95
Order an ecologic survey
Nothing will remain
How did it feel to be alive?

We close our eyes and find we
Still see daylight
But that's just natural when you're blind
I feel unfocused and I can't
Tell the time
I hope that it won't pass me by

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Vocals, Bass, Keys - Linda
Guitars - Liz

Music and lyrics by Linda

Recorded with a Tascam Portastudio 464 inside of a room

Didn't Notice

Rose writes a lot of songs with a lot of people. A few years ago she got a 4-track and recently decided to use it way more than before - here's what came of that.

Songs by a person named Rose
Recorded March-July 2024 at Rickety Shack Studios on a TASCAM Porta-07
(except for "Never a Fantasy", drums recorded in San Dimas, CA digitally)
(also "Rattlesnake", mostly done on Rose's computer except for the drums and clean guitar) 

Crow Song

Rose writes a lot of songs with lots of people. She's been recording all of her songs on tape since March 2024 and put out an EP in August with six selections; this is a follow-up to that with what she did on 4-track over the rest of 2024.

Songs by a person named Rose
Recorded August-December 2024 at Rickety Shack Studios on a TASCAM Porta-07
Electric bass on "ESCAPE FROM NOISE!!!" borrowed from Nate O. - thank you!
Thanks to Marc, Juno, Jay, Rylie, June, the Cossaks, Raven, Mr. A, Jules, Lor, and everyone at (^_^) for putting another thing of mine out. It means a lot!!! LP1 coming out eventually. 

(He Was) One Inch Tall

Mirror Image

ESCAPE FROM NOISE!!!!

Guilty as Charged

Imaginary Cowriter

Forest of Illusion

Hopesong

The wash is out, it's hanging up
And all I have is nothing
Nothing to do, nothing to say
I think I must be dreaming

The sun comes up and I'm all washed out
Is this what Deaner was talkin' about
I don't think I will ever return again my friend

If I was king I'd wear a ring
And never hurt my people
I'd stay alert and dress to kill
I might even slip you something

The sun comes up and I'm all washed out
Is this what Deaner was talkin' about
I don't think I will ever return again my friend

What Deaner Was Talking About (Ween Cover)

Linda and Liz play instruments, and on occasion the two record the sound produced. The result is a dubious product that can only partially be described as "Songs."

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it, she accepted too

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