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Come to Me by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 7th April 1986.

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Come to Me is a song George wrote about his childhood muse.
In 1982 she vanished from his life.
She moved to the midlands with her parents very unexpectedly, which was brutal.
When they were children, there was a time when they lived on opposite sides of the same street.
There was apparently a bizarre incident involving go-karts and itching powder.
This song was never performed by a band.
It was never heard by anyone before it was released here.

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

Volume VII Side A

Come to Me

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Band of Georges: Come to Me

The Man Next Door by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 14th March 1986, finished 02:25 am.

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Much like a bass can be slapped, so can a guitar.
This song features a slapped acoustic guitar.
The Man Next Door is a song about George's neighbour.
He was a violent thug who taught his children a lot of antisocial behaviour.
His children spent most of the time brawling with each other, and other kids from the neighbourhood.
The man eventually attacked his wife and broke her arm.
The family separated, moved away, and their two cats disappeared with them.
These two cats, a silver tabby called Suzy and a ginger tom, were best friends with George's mother's cat, William.
William was very sad when his two friends were no longer there.

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

The Man Next Door

Band of Georges: The Man Next Door

Same Old Road Again by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 17th May 1986.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Same Old Road Again was a song George wrote to express his frustration at some of the unreliable musicians he had worked with.
Most of the guitar is played using fingers, not a pick.
It's not until the solo at the end of the song that he swaps to a plectrum.
This song was the second song Rough Terrain ever played live.
They ran into it from a cover of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild.
Rough Terrain performed this song many, many times.
It was also a part of the set of the first incarnation of The Ug Brothers.
This was the first demo to feature the Boss 220A drum machine, instead of the DR55 Dr Rhythm.
It required a much greater time investment in terms of programming.
He also had to add a few judicious extra beats to make some of the flams and fills.
These had to be added live to the drum machine track as it was being recorded. 

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

Same Old Road Again

Band of Georges: Same Old Road Again

Cloudbreak by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 16th March 1986, 4:20 - 4:54 pm.

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Cloudbreak is a collection of jazz chords followed by a funky groovy riff jam.
An early version was once jammed by Wud.
This can be heard as a track called "Jamming" on their Wudsongs album.
The lyrics describe a memory George has, of looking up at clouds in the sky when he was 12.

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

Cloudbreak

Band of Georges: Cloudbreak

Out of His Head by George (and friends)
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Lyrics by D. Trotter.
Composed 3rd July 1986.

This version was performed by The Subterraineans and can be found on The Subterraineans' Demo.

Performers:
Dean Trotter – vocals
George Davies – guitars, vocals
Jerry Peirce – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed January 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Out of His Head is a song that features a collaboration between George and Dean Trotter.
* This song is in the key of D minor.
* The lyrics were written on 3rd July 1986, according to an original lyric document.
* The guitar part had been composed a few months previously.
* George was very pleased that Dean was able to write some lyrics to complete the song as the guitar part pleased him.
* Dean's melodic wailings towards the end represents the sirens of police cars.
* The drum solo represents the blows from fisticuffs, boots and truncheons that rain down from all sides upon the victims of police brutality.
* Dean wrote these lyrics very shortly after being shocked and horrified to witness his friend Jack the Frag being brutally arrested and beaten in Exeter High Street in broad daylight at around lunchtime for having a blim of hashish in his pocket.
* Dean himself had been attacked and brutally beaten by police whilst travelling to the unofficial 1986 Stonehenge Festival just a couple of weeks before.
* The previous year, the Stonehenge Festival was prevented from happening by the police.
* That incident became known as The Battle of the Beanfield, and the terrible and unnecessary police brutality was documented in the media worldwide.
* The Levellers wrote a song about the incident on their well known album Levelling the Land.
* A few weeks after the Stonehenge battle, in autumn 1985, George was taken into the back yard of Exeter police station and assaulted by an officer for reporting his bicycle stolen.
* Police brutality was commonplace in England in the 1980s.
* A lot of people in those days referred to the police as “Thatcher’s Gestapo”.
* Fortunately the uk police are far better today than they were in the 1980s.
* Due to many years of cassette deterioration, the quality of this recording is not great.
* We have managed to improve a little on what remained.
* Out of His Head continued to live on as a staple of Rough Terrain’s live set after The Subterraineans had folded.

Sadly, Dean took his own life by suicide at the Clifton suspension bridge, Bristol, in 1994. He was just 29 years old.

Dean had no help at all from the uk medical profession or social services for his mental health, addiction and homelessness. If he had had some professional help he would surely still be here with us today.

Rest in peace, Dean.

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

Volume VII Side B

Out of His Head

Band of Georges: Out of His Head

To the World by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 1st/2nd/3rd July 1986.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
To the World is a song in E major with a funky breakdown towards the end.
As Robert Plant once said, this is a song of hope.
George wrote it when he was considering leaving exeter to live in London.
He felt that exeter was stifling him and that London offered a lot more opportunities for a musician.
To the World is a song about going to the world, and he hoped to take his girlfriend with him.
Things worked out differently in the end.

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

To the World

Band of Georges: To the World

From the Electric Currents EP get it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/electric-currents-ep/1095668912

Tattered Veil

Lyrics and music by Clay Hakes.
Sean Doyle - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Ben Shooter - lead guitar, vocals
Clay Hakes - bass
Fox Capone - drums

Engineered by Michael O'Keefe at Record Office Records, New Orleans, LA.
Mixed and mastered by John Naclerio at Nada Recordings, Montgomery, NY.

Smart Boy! (Do A Trick!)

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