Garden Of A Thousand Candles

In the garden of a thousand candles
Dreams awake you
Silently stare at the walls
Gold adorns you
Fantastical colours
Dreams await you
Lead where you dare

In a little field beyond Granton Meadows
There's a spot of heaven under yonder tree
Step aboard my time machine 
The future looks a silent Spring
Listen to the spirits come walk with me

Look around there were trees there were fields
Seems so serene beyond finite ideals
What happened to the simplest of times?
Blood, fire and steel
The old ways die
The old ways die

In the garden of a thousand candles
Dreams await you
Silently stare at the walls
Gold adorns you
Fantastical colors
Dreams awake you 
Lead where you dare

Over and over dreams falling over
Over and over lead where you dare

Pete Austin is The 1969. Playing electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, piano and mellotron, lead and backing vocal. Mixing and drum loops.
Released January 2022. Recorded throughout 2021.

The Garden of a Thousand Candles

Jamming the Eastwood DLX 12 string through a Catalinbread Echorec

Surfthang

Ride Easy

Little children in a lucid dream state sleepwalk the spirit realm at night guided by shimmering spheres of dancing luminescent light. 

For Kiara, no need for nightmares...ever ;-)x


Your Feet Will Never Touch The Ground

Never coming, never coming, never coming down
Floating in a caravan, a fantasy of love
Looking at the sea below, starry heavens not so far above
Drifting in a magic ship, a perfect harmony
Come on all you people now, are you searching just like me?

Got to get down, got to wake up 
Got to get down and wake up for morning

In the land of golden slumbers
You can find us undercover
If you let your mind discover
You can find the seven wonders
You know it's true

Life is just a dream away
A psyched out surf ride holiday
The stars the moon the sunshine rays
Will light our path
We're never coming down

Your life is but one step away from the psychodrama
Of day to day
The stars the moon the sun all say
We'll guide your path
We're never coming down

Floating in a caravan, a fantasy of love
Looking at the sea below, starry heavens not so far above
Drifting in a magic ship, a perfect harmony
Come on all you people now, you're searching just like me?

Never coming, never coming, never coming down
No we're never going to give it up, we're never gonna give it up
Yeh we're always going to fly so high our feet will never touch the ground
Yeh we're always going to live it up, we're always going to live it up
Our feet will never touch the ground

Carried on a silver cloud, take us to a higher ground
Take us to the freedom there, the love is all around

Never coming, never coming, never coming down

The 1969 does; vocal, electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, mandolin, organ, and...sleigh bells.

Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions.

Recorded February 2016

Your Feet Will Never Touch The Ground

At Altitude is a feeling of freedom, soaring high above, leaving all behind, you become whole again.

The 1969 plays electric guitar, keys, bass guitar, drum loops arrangement.
Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions.

Recorded November 2015

At Altitude

Genocide, collateral murder, warfare dehumanised to the level of a playstation shoot 'em up serving the ideals of corporatist oligarchs. The spirit of Baby You're A Rich Man rings true but in a bittersweet fashion. If only we could have been Beautiful People instead of Killing Machines.

Crazy Horse One Eight

How does it feel to be the killers of all of those people?
Now that you know just who you are
What are you going to say?

How does it feel to be the killers of all of those people?
How does it feel to be a killing machine?

The 1969 plays; main vocal, electric guitar, lead guitar solo, bass, VST dulcimer and tabla, drum loop sequencing, maracas, Includes Native American Navajo song samples.

Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions

Recorded March 2017

Crazy Horse One Eight

Thanks to and inspiration from John Lennon's 1968 BBC interview at the National Theatre and the incredibly nostalgic poem 'I Remember, I Remember' by Thomas Hood.

If You Got Soul

If you got soul
You gotta roll

When I was a boy
It would be easy for me to try
To believe all the words that were written in the books
By the seers and the gods on high
Sky high
There's a lie in the lie
That they want you to buy
It's a lie that you can't ask why
But now I am older
Got that weight off my shoulder
Lift my finger up and point to sky

No soul destroyer's gonna
rock and roll her baby
No state infraction's gonna
Suppress the action now
Insanity attack
Distortion of the fact
Maniacal quack
Dehumanising
An automatic fact
The stick is in the back
Establishments react
Do they see their own writing
On the wall?
Do they see their own writhing
At all?

If you got soul
You gotta roll
And we the people
We gotta get to go

When I was that boy
It would be easier for me to fly
But now I am older
Got that weight off my shoulder
Lift my finger up and point to sky
Sky high
It was a child's sweet ignorance
But oh so little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy

If you got soul
You gotta roll
And we the people
We gotta get to go

The 1969 plays; vocals, backing vocals, 12 string electric guitar, electric guitar, bass, piano, organ, mellotron, drum loop sequencing.

Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions.

Recorded October 2017

If You Got Soul

Magdalen Green; a Victorian park area near where I lived in Dundee, Scotland once upon a long ago. It overlooks the River Tay and the scene of the 1879 Tay Rail Bridge disaster where many people lost their lives when the bridge collapsed during a storm. The bridge was later remade and still stands today.

Apart from that, Magdalen Green is a cool place to trip out ;-)

Magdalen Green
There's a place, I used to know
Torch the stick, the embers glow
Take my hand, firewalk with me
I'll stay with you, we'll feel so free

Magdalen late at night
Green around you out of sight are we

Feeling you, can I describe
Fleeting bird, of paradise
Tap the vein, go deep within
Bleed the juice, from venom skin

Magdalen, late at night
Green around you out of sight are we

Magdalen Green
400 years down by the sea
Now you're so old and so are we
You watched those souls fall in the sea
Ghosts of the morrow they will be

Loving you, you blow my mind
Lizard skin, why so unkind?
Crawling snake, from deep within
Consume the fire, that burns within
Magdalen, late at night
Green around you out of sight are we

Magdalen Green
400 years down by the sea
Now you're so old and so are we
You watched those souls fall in the sea
Ghosts of the morrow they will be

Watch those souls fall in the sea
Ghosts of morrow they shall be

The 1969 plays; vocal, piano, mellotron, marimbas, xylophone, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum loop sequencing.

Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions

Recorded February 2018

Magdalen Green

A music hall experiment in 3/4 time waltz, drums in the style of Manic Depression by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, another poke at social conventions and my distaste for conformity...

Portrait Of Absinthe Minded Polly

Harriet's sister lives life wantonly
Uninvited attentions are welcomed with glee
But all eyes are on Etta 
For she's tres jolie
Oh they just can't see

They just can't see
Why?

To forget Sir Walpole Ratchett
You sit on your mother's casket
Drowning droplets of green pleasure 
With Earl Grey tea

Wilhelmina declines ooh la la
Attending occasions 
With perfect sang froid
But they all laugh with Etta
For she's fancy free
So what about thee?

They just can't see...
Why?
 
To forget their expectations 
Of class and society
You decline to entertain 
Any notion of propriety

Portrait of absent mine dead Polly
Where did you go?

They just can't see.

The 1969 plays; vocal, vocal harmonies, bass guitar, electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, piano, electric harpsichord & hammond organ plugins, drum loop sequencing.

Produced and mixed by The 1969, mastered by The 1969, additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte @ Sharp Guy Productions

Recorded September 2018

Portrait Of Absinthe Minded Polly

A short instrumental Victoriana mood piece composed on piano keys set to accompany Magdalen Green and Portrait Of Absinthe Minded Polly on the forthcoming album 'Short Stories From Magdalen Green'. It has some simplistic echoes of my favourite classical composers Erik Satie, Frederic Chopin and Philip Glass.

I once saw a short film time lapse of a flower growing from seed, to seedling, blooming and then withering. That's my thought behind this fairly rudimentary experimental piece, that it grows meekly, rises up to a full bloom and then descends slowly in notes and harmony before its ultimate end. It was a period of existence, a complete story, a time. 

The 1969 plays piano keys. Mixed and produced by The 1969. Additional mastering by John Marc Bimonte at Sharp Guy Productions.

Recorded July-November 2018.

A Time

For the ones you love...

No Time For Watching Clocks

Please don't run so fast
Life is long
Don't fall on the broken glass
Our love is a promise
A lifelong souvenir
Once given not forgotten
None shall disappear

You don't need nobody 
To say who you are
You are what you are
You're a shining star

Some people love
And some people judge
And some they are full of it
Others want to hide 
Too scared to decide
Paralyzed they make a fool of it

I'll take my chances on the way
You'll find if you go astray
There is nothing in this world 
You need fear from anyone
Life is long
Life is you

Boomtown
Meltdown
Build you up to let you down 
I can break 
No mistake
Want to be a salad plate?

Get on up 
Buttercup 
Guess you better suck it up
Tough luck
Be the rock
Aint no time for watching clocks

Some people love
And some people judge
And some they are full of it
Others want to hide 
Too scared to decide
Paralyzed they live their life in fear

There is something in this world 
To be for everyone
Life is long 
Life is you


Recorded December 2018.

The 1969 sing all vocals, play keys, bass, harpsichord VST, Brass VST. Percussion and drum loops arranged by 1969. All lyrics copyright The 1969.

No Time For Watching Clocks

A companion piece to Magdalen Green, the original backwards instrumentation and rhythm are brought forward in the mix. Additional vocal, piano and bass guitar have been added while playing slide with a Fender Strat through a Cry Baby Wah Wah. 

Mixed and mastered by The 1969

Magdalen Green, Slight Return

The 1969 plays dub keys, stereo delay piano, electric fuzz and wah guitar, bass guitar, strings/ custom melodica plug-ins and mystical mantra chanting. Additional loops include tanpura, dub reggae sound fx and Hindi vocal samples. The awesome Billy Martin as always is the in-house loop drummer. 
Happy Summer Festivals 2019 to everyone, make it count... like Woodstock '69!

Produced and mixed by The 1969. Mastered by The 1969. Recorded April 2019.

Woodstock

Welcome to the psychedelic time machine. 

Recorded with Garageband.

Guitars; Washburn HB35 semi acoustic, Fender Stratocaster, Eastwood Sidejack 12 string electric, Epiphone inspired by 1964 Texan and Encore Acoustic guitars, Sire V7 Bass guitar. 

Keyboard; Line 6 Mobile Keys.

Other instruments; mandolin, banjo, piano, bhodran.

Amps; Fender, Line 6. 

Drums; Ginger Baker and Mitch MItchell inspired loops, sounds and hits played by the awesome Dave Martin.

Gear; Behringer UB502 Eurorack, Behringer U-Control UCA202, Macbook Pro, Standard Garageband VST's and plug-ins, Catalinbread Echorec, Dunlop Cry Baby 535Q Multi-Wah.

Thanks for stopping by.
Peace and Love.

All lyrics and recordings copyright The 1969.

All material recorded, mixed and mastered by The 1969.

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