tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19259920692895175762024-02-28T11:28:30.682-08:00Adam Fieled's Fair GameAdam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-13081938726201299402024-02-28T11:27:00.000-08:002024-02-28T11:27:54.831-08:00Moonlight Drive<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVuhDT2420G_5fzLMBx6erprC-7tsVts5gLzYZL2Laqfth-puXSEE1nyRxilPhMpOc1LMXTOFyBaK9XpvWlzwd8NVK-M5pQzuxLv5UFij0qWpDVtaA4fi9evDG8xIy8_6CWWYGpZMGw0S0DBTGouRNgAMMOLGEng4dfr6Oa8h4lugBbqvlMsxR_0L0t7K/s1485/Morrison%20Courson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="1055" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVuhDT2420G_5fzLMBx6erprC-7tsVts5gLzYZL2Laqfth-puXSEE1nyRxilPhMpOc1LMXTOFyBaK9XpvWlzwd8NVK-M5pQzuxLv5UFij0qWpDVtaA4fi9evDG8xIy8_6CWWYGpZMGw0S0DBTGouRNgAMMOLGEng4dfr6Oa8h4lugBbqvlMsxR_0L0t7K/w284-h400/Morrison%20Courson.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Recollections of an early encounter with an <a href="https://fieledsmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/2018/12/editor-not-predator.html">opening in the universe</a>.<p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-78387402978636435592023-09-02T11:39:00.003-07:002023-09-02T11:39:32.581-07:00Sisters of Mercy<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TuUs-Diy0Hg?si=-fuI6qzm4-k2iNkn" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-70392937747619745222023-08-23T18:04:00.003-07:002023-08-23T18:04:46.534-07:00Stroke It, Noel<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HXoZL5wMr2U?si=KVREddKW3-rjmT9B" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-32659568585508030772023-08-22T07:07:00.003-07:002023-08-22T07:07:30.797-07:00Feel (I saw) remix 2: vocal montage<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mXuIUK1JLhg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-9649119409528768042023-08-20T13:07:00.000-07:002023-08-20T13:07:03.357-07:00O, Dana<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5JaCHAxywsk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-4814610808071420672023-08-19T10:57:00.002-07:002023-08-19T10:57:17.401-07:00Kizza Me<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SB_52FOUQtk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-13806406061771073932023-08-08T09:16:00.000-07:002023-08-08T09:16:10.817-07:00Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers: The Fieled Sequence<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLutGi4eX5GDZehG1cLNsZ5ElcnpRPruhb" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-59650778070193437132023-06-21T17:38:00.000-07:002023-06-21T17:38:15.400-07:00Playing DJ<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYLqdHEWla8GcV9BJ75DupnTTmV8zTxjxffo_2MUozS6Ltcem9VK9Tj2nNvzdUTOkuwJZg3lrmHhOd1ngHOPX0zWWTnuaUd4U63APf9yHY6z6Cl3mTtLEJ-85sdZ-u1QOVlGnkfN1sS8RV07jwIorBMe_avMt57Dex2U6SR_QLlO2YTNsNT9Djnq0Y6x3K/s450/VUThird450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="450" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYLqdHEWla8GcV9BJ75DupnTTmV8zTxjxffo_2MUozS6Ltcem9VK9Tj2nNvzdUTOkuwJZg3lrmHhOd1ngHOPX0zWWTnuaUd4U63APf9yHY6z6Cl3mTtLEJ-85sdZ-u1QOVlGnkfN1sS8RV07jwIorBMe_avMt57Dex2U6SR_QLlO2YTNsNT9Djnq0Y6x3K/s320/VUThird450.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />When Mary, Abby and I used to hang out at my flat in Logan Square, usually at night, in the early Aughts, I would play DJ for them. This, the third, eponymous Velvet Underground album, was their favorite. Abby especially, felt that the songs (like <a href="https://ia601709.us.archive.org/7/items/09-the-murder-mystery/03%20Some%20Kinda%20Love.mp3">Some Kinda Love</a>) articulated something that she, herself, couldn't articulate. And the resultant buzz we got was mellow and intense at the same time. <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-57387062023682060252023-02-18T05:42:00.008-08:002023-03-25T09:51:03.598-07:00Feel 2: 14 Weeks at #1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEn3PCpu7MwefS52vzbKRCktJ1sLR9GXGanjcciu4NbS5Ua-7iBIkRTuYStaiCb4Tj5owUW4ifWb-YO0iRFKstzuwHEO4MeZ1h3HOZx0BE0lwdegwcrC6Ap_oQ20no3neEMAjjSaz1vmZjkYQnPoAdZFcS_eUVgxGjqT4Fl9NAt9rmAYSconV_1wGcBw/s2512/halloween%2009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2432" data-original-width="2512" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEn3PCpu7MwefS52vzbKRCktJ1sLR9GXGanjcciu4NbS5Ua-7iBIkRTuYStaiCb4Tj5owUW4ifWb-YO0iRFKstzuwHEO4MeZ1h3HOZx0BE0lwdegwcrC6Ap_oQ20no3neEMAjjSaz1vmZjkYQnPoAdZFcS_eUVgxGjqT4Fl9NAt9rmAYSconV_1wGcBw/s320/halloween%2009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Proud to say that, as of today (3-25-23), <a href="https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14473766">Feel 2</a> has spent a total of fourteen weeks atop the Minimal Electronic sub-generic chart on Soundclick. Cheers!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-20728964640913530872023-02-15T05:18:00.006-08:002023-02-25T05:48:45.542-08:00The Return of Citizen Clang<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSs3q2ZnablI4Ct45OBO3mw5mdcoRUf9f0a02SdjQM97FuAqMl3ELh3s__1ykIalBFQ-16zSFQ6hOOXLVWHi_fw4zfIpNGzHAuH474uT8wFexk5WYeY2lL4ZZTVCEmBXABJ3IGIm8FL53QQm_gKVBxyHjHTQVJd2Fc7IFYYzGT6gmSfQlyX4Mu8-zZnA/s500/Natalie%20Wood%2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="380" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSs3q2ZnablI4Ct45OBO3mw5mdcoRUf9f0a02SdjQM97FuAqMl3ELh3s__1ykIalBFQ-16zSFQ6hOOXLVWHi_fw4zfIpNGzHAuH474uT8wFexk5WYeY2lL4ZZTVCEmBXABJ3IGIm8FL53QQm_gKVBxyHjHTQVJd2Fc7IFYYzGT6gmSfQlyX4Mu8-zZnA/s320/Natalie%20Wood%2018.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Today, <a href="https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14098145">A Clangorous Din</a> returns to the high end of the charts: #20 in Jazz Overall, #2 in Acid Jazz.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As of 2-16 and 2-22, we're up to #19-#2. #20-#2 repeated on 2-18, 2-20, and 2-21. As of 2-23, #17-#2.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As of 2-25, #15-#2.</div><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-29482039034467787512023-01-20T06:08:00.005-08:002023-01-20T06:10:07.448-08:00Stone the Devil: #1 in Acid Jazz<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8jcp_TrTaWZwRf9Wjz4mj3oq_oeeFq8Xlj_0hsknjFqmhMLl7jKadEAJhRnUrV7UGrRr-mWpv5Vl_jCwn2y3fMS3msFYcAFRePVkdmsHxcXXM0quUjcRLBqaHNPbcqCPk4zH4BvAgIE-uVp9JXhDLv3LrHLuLBXO43Oex82Tfes7P13K84ZwmDABSg/s640/Angel%20Heart%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="640" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8jcp_TrTaWZwRf9Wjz4mj3oq_oeeFq8Xlj_0hsknjFqmhMLl7jKadEAJhRnUrV7UGrRr-mWpv5Vl_jCwn2y3fMS3msFYcAFRePVkdmsHxcXXM0quUjcRLBqaHNPbcqCPk4zH4BvAgIE-uVp9JXhDLv3LrHLuLBXO43Oex82Tfes7P13K84ZwmDABSg/w400-h272/Angel%20Heart%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Stone the Devil, by Speck (and using a sample from This Charming Lab), which was the first Acid Dropping track the appear extensively online in 2020, has finally become a <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=13978643">#1 hit</a> on the Soundclick Acid-Jazz sub-generic chart. Cheers! </div><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-41711844514733239452022-12-09T08:18:00.001-08:002022-12-09T08:18:42.084-08:00The Darkyr Sooner NYC Quartet: Four in the Top 20<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKae18LGVXtaHn502Byhmr_J4ux-ZL_KIjhlntCKKSzYdOxSEPmeTw8qBFTrzaiG8ziZy2dVwAt7r0qzWWRwTOcfcPQip0O_vgYUhFUH_9GNd6WMY1siTvKO9fDlidXTptUEH6K-Cg0NbbjYuR3mPkzJ4ifWGQgbgcV53oBlWbJpvlUiS1OVwb9DqQg/s2325/DS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="2060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKae18LGVXtaHn502Byhmr_J4ux-ZL_KIjhlntCKKSzYdOxSEPmeTw8qBFTrzaiG8ziZy2dVwAt7r0qzWWRwTOcfcPQip0O_vgYUhFUH_9GNd6WMY1siTvKO9fDlidXTptUEH6K-Cg0NbbjYuR3mPkzJ4ifWGQgbgcV53oBlWbJpvlUiS1OVwb9DqQg/s320/DS2.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br />Four songs from the Darkyr Sooner EP, all recorded at Buttons Sound in New York in 1999, have all become Top 20 hits on the Alternative Overall chart on Soundclick. The songs are: <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14513317">Sara Starr</a>, <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14505788">Love Me, Blame Me</a>, <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14312017">Riding the Waves</a>, and <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14523169">Deflating Raft</a>. Thanks again to Paul Levin for producing and engineering the sessions all those years ago. Cheers!<p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-39974036215650300402022-12-05T06:45:00.003-08:002022-12-07T21:16:23.952-08:00Deflating Raft<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLnYEcRPA4-nHoKdjGA2PitBwrAiRHWTH-Z6_J6X1w3pCqpatyLnIR08xjdwDt3kiMY8_wGROmhHRFY4sfG7WcyVJaHe7oQX_KamEvFHYhyUiDsozFOGpOfQ7Mq608tOAmChEAfkzISYGLa60j-aBpNf_bgR-4wfNpFui51ttDz0vHRyQCfUtwzuksg/s604/AFieledWestPhilly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="604" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLnYEcRPA4-nHoKdjGA2PitBwrAiRHWTH-Z6_J6X1w3pCqpatyLnIR08xjdwDt3kiMY8_wGROmhHRFY4sfG7WcyVJaHe7oQX_KamEvFHYhyUiDsozFOGpOfQ7Mq608tOAmChEAfkzISYGLa60j-aBpNf_bgR-4wfNpFui51ttDz0vHRyQCfUtwzuksg/w400-h263/AFieledWestPhilly.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Deflating Raft is the fourth and final <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14523169">single</a> from the NYC quartet taken from the Darkyr Sooner EP. As of 12-8, we stand at #20 Alternative, #4 Indie. It's a tune I started very early, '92, and finished in '94. I thought highly of it then, and it would always be one of the first songs I would play when handed a guitar. When we recorded it at Buttons Sound, the contrapuntal vocal made the thing come much more to life. Just one raw voice leaves the song a tad monotonous. The lyrics, having been published in <a href="http://as-is.blogspot.com/2015/05/sirens-silence.html">Siren's Silence</a> in '97, add a level of the bizarre or outre to the tune. And it is the truth that the overall effect of the vocal tracks is Jeff Buckley-ish. People can decide if they like the heavy rockist lead playing done on an acoustic. <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-17990612397071524202022-12-03T15:27:00.002-08:002022-12-06T10:33:14.152-08:00Sigma Sound<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhk1N5bXv97-qIDUjAFz69FGkyUpR3VPV3WuDQQwT12_CWmw5KycBBgWLiZIY0dJyDPeHESX99JGUg2v1CGAtGpbZSgbc7APx8rWBlXXCNnD1TBvTglMoHRH-W4OH6Fd2jtoqehxQwlRVPo7xa3DSwNKBziBnwzYNf-BfmIlzYZwiDTQCyHNKAR5IJQ/s1200/bowieya.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhk1N5bXv97-qIDUjAFz69FGkyUpR3VPV3WuDQQwT12_CWmw5KycBBgWLiZIY0dJyDPeHESX99JGUg2v1CGAtGpbZSgbc7APx8rWBlXXCNnD1TBvTglMoHRH-W4OH6Fd2jtoqehxQwlRVPo7xa3DSwNKBziBnwzYNf-BfmIlzYZwiDTQCyHNKAR5IJQ/s320/bowieya.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Without too much rhyme or reason, and by an entertainment attorney whose name I will not mention (his first name wasn't Tony), in late <a href="http://fieledsmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-note-on-nineties.html">'97</a> on a semester break, I was given a tour of the inside of Sigma Sound, in Chinatown, Center City Philly. I saw the studio where Bowie recorded <a href="https://archive.org/details/01.-young-americans">Young Americans</a>, and then sat with some staffers in one of the all-purpose rooms and listened to what I'd recorded in Manayunk a month before. Interesting to remember, and try to figure out what I was doing in there. Hmmmm. <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-54535757961703487882022-11-15T15:50:00.001-08:002022-11-16T07:21:27.475-08:00Low?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfOym2AXQkX5iofonBqC8NEih6Ls41lxc8oO0xl9CC-Zz6Jk_xMs1Z4w2zzattQjso0df9D1xQ5kk1A1RLrDFRxM3V0GxPXFoR6DLg46l9jLPL7-_Z5NZA7872CK-3oaa_go4TZFrZK25tI7_9Iufr0Mj0Pmh1fohHUPODkkQPowNKSo-x1Nm-z41Ig/s641/Mary06PortraitOfAdam24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfOym2AXQkX5iofonBqC8NEih6Ls41lxc8oO0xl9CC-Zz6Jk_xMs1Z4w2zzattQjso0df9D1xQ5kk1A1RLrDFRxM3V0GxPXFoR6DLg46l9jLPL7-_Z5NZA7872CK-3oaa_go4TZFrZK25tI7_9Iufr0Mj0Pmh1fohHUPODkkQPowNKSo-x1Nm-z41Ig/s320/Mary06PortraitOfAdam24.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtMtoG_4e4JysahixaqSC5SNgA73ZIktaQEyS-XYFIopCKErQucR4axx2urQBdL2WKW_cd062QApVpq57BofzhK92sRwLdVX-hp2Iax5PrpR0nJJmuE8056KE4SLDmcY_sxp9KQ-eMF-LVwewyMmrkVf1FM6cwU55BznxrvztwZnDgtpdAbMA0v_bVg/s600/BowieLow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtMtoG_4e4JysahixaqSC5SNgA73ZIktaQEyS-XYFIopCKErQucR4axx2urQBdL2WKW_cd062QApVpq57BofzhK92sRwLdVX-hp2Iax5PrpR0nJJmuE8056KE4SLDmcY_sxp9KQ-eMF-LVwewyMmrkVf1FM6cwU55BznxrvztwZnDgtpdAbMA0v_bVg/w320-h307/BowieLow.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>As 2006 bled into 2007, there was a messiness to my life, what was happening in it, that I found distressing. Between Temple being what it was and the poetry world being what it was, I found myself stretched beyond any ways or manner I'd been stretched before. Seemingly out of the blue (though I'd seen her earlier in '06 on <a href="http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-jazz-hunky-dory.html">Stoning the Devil</a>), and as if on cue, Mary H. called me and asked me to pose for her. I did. The result was this portrait, more than half of which was painted on one day. To the tune, interesting to note, of something I brought to her studio off Broad Street in North Philly, not far from Temple, for us to hear: David Bowie's Low album, from 1976. Mary, though we were on the verge of reuniting, was low too: by painting me as a composite of myself and Abby Heller-Burnham, she let the cat out of the bag; she was none too pleased that I'd consummated something with Abs. We were similarly low that day. But she liked the Bowie. </p><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-13254671283194276172022-11-10T05:41:00.006-08:002022-11-17T21:41:09.384-08:00Sara Starr<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIuFYpmVuVWW81jlZdwerxdn0K-sYgTjr4bHggHV4GU2WROW72aGSGqyg28ZXXqPhHcCbGScm8mq6hnwO_xmmPEFAgt1WYzwEaaxzXX9KV5OaTSSur4IEV1Q8UsYMcbcqIki3YdY0wPNaSOQGPuYq0_Gade1Jy77jbAcQokykkE5naig179mxFfa7BA/s500/adamsidewalk07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIuFYpmVuVWW81jlZdwerxdn0K-sYgTjr4bHggHV4GU2WROW72aGSGqyg28ZXXqPhHcCbGScm8mq6hnwO_xmmPEFAgt1WYzwEaaxzXX9KV5OaTSSur4IEV1Q8UsYMcbcqIki3YdY0wPNaSOQGPuYq0_Gade1Jy77jbAcQokykkE5naig179mxFfa7BA/s320/adamsidewalk07.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Sara Starr is now out as a single on <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14513317">Soundclick</a>. As of 11-18, we stand at #15 in Alternative, #4 in Indie. As I say on the page, another one churned from the bowels of Manhattan. This 2007 pic, taken by Mary H, is of me standing outside the Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A in the East Village. I read there then. Back in '99, during the months I spent living at 10th and A, the Sidewalk, and the attendant anti-folkies, were one pivot point for what I was doing. Lach, the kingpin, wouldn't give me a gig playing music, but he did set me up to write for the Sidewalk fan-zine <a href="http://fieledsfairgame.blogspot.com/2019/04/reviews-from-antimatters-nyc-1999.html">Anti-Matters</a>. And my friend Briana Winter dragged me onstage during one of her shows, to let me do Riding the Waves, with her singing back-up. At one of the Monday night soirees, I also bothered to play a Bowie-d out version of Wild is the Wind.<p></p><p>Bowie: what Sara Starr is musically tried not to showboat, but can't not reveal the connection to Ziggy-era Bowie. Why, during the Darkyr Sooner months in '99, I was so Bowie-besotted, I don't know. Actually, living at 10th and A, I kept hearing that Iggy Pop lived right around the corner on B, but I never saw him. I did walk out of the apartment I was crashing in to find Spike Lee standing on my stoop. This is an outdoorsman kind of track<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">— </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">written partially in Tompkins, partly in Washington Square Park, where I was hanging with Todd Smolar and more NYU film dudes. Another dead zone track, too. Who Sara is is my little secret. As per the time signature warp woven into the tune</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">— </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.</span></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-83622572625299366352022-11-07T05:33:00.000-08:002022-11-07T05:33:59.645-08:00Planning Sessions<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxvRBB83LbKLRsnYiG2EXgDmw0vd2H59916q3CflZGMKazZ9CcltWzKgUnKp6-J7aetxfKEiNwH1HQQQWAs-imWyRiB3-PzO2h_6ec2X6Jn0BsBYBHpONc3tFe2bl9lxbfeDTIlKSHe0dR-3e431gXObHuRaG1xy__E43dqqBgL8sZm0k5fdPRRCcwA/s300/steely%20dan%20aja.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="300" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxvRBB83LbKLRsnYiG2EXgDmw0vd2H59916q3CflZGMKazZ9CcltWzKgUnKp6-J7aetxfKEiNwH1HQQQWAs-imWyRiB3-PzO2h_6ec2X6Jn0BsBYBHpONc3tFe2bl9lxbfeDTIlKSHe0dR-3e431gXObHuRaG1xy__E43dqqBgL8sZm0k5fdPRRCcwA/s1600/steely%20dan%20aja.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />Mike Land spent the mid-Aughts living in the <a href="http://fieledsmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-adelphia-house.html">Adelphia House </a>at 13th and Chestnut. With me ensconced in Logan Square, we had two viable flats available to use for the bullshit sessions, used to plan what the next move for Philly Free School, and our Highwire Gallery shows, would be. Worth noting that Mike Land, as of 04-05, was still enrolled as an undergrad at University of the Arts in Center City. The U of Arts tribe are their own brat-pack around Center City, and Mike was keen to include as many of them in the shows as he could. Mike's own major was film. Anyway, to set the proper mood, we often used <a href="https://archive.org/details/steely-dan-cant-buy-a-thrill-01-do-it-again">Steely Dan</a>, so that a lot of Highwire antics in my brain are keyed to Becker-Fagen tunes as well. Do Steely Dan slot in as a more suave, less kamikaze version of <a href="http://fieledsfairgame.blogspot.com/2022/10/highwire-at-gates-of-dawn.html">Syd Barrett</a>? Mike's flat looked directly down at the intersection of 13th and Chestnut. It was a much less mellow picture than me at 21st and Race. But the circuit we created, Logan Square-City Hall, worked with Steely Dan and other things we had going to transcendentalize what we were doing into something momentous for us, for the golden year it lasted. <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-49089562778018235002022-11-06T17:20:00.000-08:002022-11-06T17:20:45.481-08:00Love Me, Blame Me on hearthis.at<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOVyMRr-P8qGg6be2xwwDr71CUFlPk5Y1UhD14u7E8cgc-tZsDjYnhRpJ_vyiBwXo0v2Zf7jFXtmcFzcHDI_5GRdcTMVczi9dr6Um7dOAcyl-AeuxZlxMrD760GlQGx1cReM7vNfDuKsdM_VIqKDNCUy3bcXH154m7Mboj1mx5qr-nVa2mqSUod7xaA/s500/natalie%20wood%2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="380" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOVyMRr-P8qGg6be2xwwDr71CUFlPk5Y1UhD14u7E8cgc-tZsDjYnhRpJ_vyiBwXo0v2Zf7jFXtmcFzcHDI_5GRdcTMVczi9dr6Um7dOAcyl-AeuxZlxMrD760GlQGx1cReM7vNfDuKsdM_VIqKDNCUy3bcXH154m7Mboj1mx5qr-nVa2mqSUod7xaA/s320/natalie%20wood%2014.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">For the week ending 11-6-22, Love Me, Blame Me charted at <a href="The hotel detective he was outta sight...Love Me, Blame Me charts at #5 this week in the hearthis.at Rock chart...: https://hearthis.at/bvzjxfb6/lovemeblameme-pY8/">#5</a> on the hearthis.at Rock chart. Cheers!</div><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-83740536774593863092022-11-06T05:11:00.002-08:002022-11-13T08:59:05.080-08:00What could they do with Mary H?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6VzWAuKI4klPHmWAJEbMQHtJ6vzo6h80BWDsNyX4F31QRH1BGkapNqXNL3xZ2c88iOVYpAuEcQPpfmZSYqtEb237F1nPv04Lysp_epslQWNxDdMta6TKUEyL6tn_Ou8iBFw2sNuNh9BwGejzme8_gIVphwwPu8FE1eLf0CS8gNSbLbnzjMnmz1fYVg/s500/Depeche%20Mode.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6VzWAuKI4klPHmWAJEbMQHtJ6vzo6h80BWDsNyX4F31QRH1BGkapNqXNL3xZ2c88iOVYpAuEcQPpfmZSYqtEb237F1nPv04Lysp_epslQWNxDdMta6TKUEyL6tn_Ou8iBFw2sNuNh9BwGejzme8_gIVphwwPu8FE1eLf0CS8gNSbLbnzjMnmz1fYVg/s320/Depeche%20Mode.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Mary H had interesting musical peccadilloes, too. She had a fascination going, on many fronts, with the Depeche Mode album <a href="https://archive.org/details/Depeche_Mode-Violated">Violator</a>, from 1990. Martin Gore's lyrics pushed her buttons the right way. For instance, Mary H had, as few would expect, a Jesus fixation. It was personal, and did not bother to affix her to any organized religion, but Jesus, as he appeared in Renaissance art and also in literary history, always gave her pause as a figure of great substance and imaginative heft. Personal Jesus was exactly who she wanted to think about, along with whatever else could be personal for her in <a href="http://as-is.blogspot.com/2008/09/mary-harjus-fall.html">Biblical myth</a>. Likewise, Mary H had a habit of slipping and sliding about what she said to who, who she promised what to, what she could fulfill and not fulfill in practice, making Policy of Truth so uncannily about her that it used to make me laugh. Mary's self-contained system of checks and balances in her life made Clean appropriate too. And the generalized ambiance of Euro around Depeche Mode was a nice one for Mary H, as a way of re-extending her heritage in that direction. <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-70474268773995949292022-11-05T07:10:00.000-07:002022-11-05T07:10:19.081-07:00Spun at the Last Drop<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0f3l7vW8Zf8sBfeaWKqcSjy8ZnFYINRC1lI9wryCl9xuPAVJqGBPArN8Aa62EZ_K7qwcDPnzZGgw9Ng10flfizvriX2RMb3QhcoCq8V58avn2sNdvpDzVTLZSVzxkQ6C3yEDP6uOL1dLIoXbpC_c4ncYVOli7Hp48ALs0o8P0r9UuVEsprRf2_BqaA/s640/LDInteriorSurreal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0f3l7vW8Zf8sBfeaWKqcSjy8ZnFYINRC1lI9wryCl9xuPAVJqGBPArN8Aa62EZ_K7qwcDPnzZGgw9Ng10flfizvriX2RMb3QhcoCq8V58avn2sNdvpDzVTLZSVzxkQ6C3yEDP6uOL1dLIoXbpC_c4ncYVOli7Hp48ALs0o8P0r9UuVEsprRf2_BqaA/w400-h300/LDInteriorSurreal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />On a day to day basis in the Aughts, we Free Schoolers had responsibilities to attend to, just like anyone else. When we had free time, one favored place to congregate was the Last Drop, a coffee shop at 13th and Pine, near but not in the gayborhood, close also to South Street. The Last Drop was a hipster's paradise, from the high, coffered, ambient ceiling (think Paris) to the Making Time DJs who both worked and held court there. The Last Drop was open late, too.<p></p><p>What was spun, at the Last Drop, was half the fun. In the early Aughts, the map of what the Last Drop played was widely expansive, from Le Tigre and Belle and Sebastian to Hall and Oates. The Last Drop phase which I found most intriguing happened later: in late 2007, for several months, all we heard was <a href="https://archive.org/details/black_sabbath-paranoid-vinyl-1970">Black Sabbath</a> (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) and <a href="https://archive.org/details/04-moonchild-the-dream-the-illusion_202110">King Crimson</a> (In the Court of King Crimson). This was engineered by one Annie Daley, who clearly had something to say then, and said it. </p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-85691671606311442742022-10-29T19:05:00.000-07:002022-10-29T19:05:05.409-07:00Darkyr Sooner: Notes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlFfhULq8h5X3Z7n360OD5lVFC-yemiTKWCYkfNyC2_Xj4wO5idmQAoYNhFl5H7WRrENQ6dZdbtduqyMM4BO51bgN5xi77JOKolSTgs73nKkVqBX3ruIrLdQ046NNikvLSBE4DAwBD_fEjDchlhgdQWZjmGSrWFmvKVTjSIS8_8g_uH4DW6RTQy-vZA/s661/AdamNYC1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlFfhULq8h5X3Z7n360OD5lVFC-yemiTKWCYkfNyC2_Xj4wO5idmQAoYNhFl5H7WRrENQ6dZdbtduqyMM4BO51bgN5xi77JOKolSTgs73nKkVqBX3ruIrLdQ046NNikvLSBE4DAwBD_fEjDchlhgdQWZjmGSrWFmvKVTjSIS8_8g_uH4DW6RTQy-vZA/s320/AdamNYC1.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br />What you see here: an actor's professional headshot of me, as I looked during the recording of Darkyr Sooner in 1999. In Manhattan, I had leave to go blonde (for a while), get a nose ring and a tattoo, and fall back down to 120 lbs., on a steady diet of Tostitos, Mike and Ikes, and black and white cookies. My diet, during my Manhattan sojourn, also included other things, of a more (shall we say) euphoric nature. Just like the song goes, I often found myself waitin' for my man, in Washington Square Park (or elsewhere). This is why, as I explained on Soundclick, so much of the Darkyr Sooner experience is in a personal blind spot or dead zone for me. During the months of the recording, I was sleeping on someone's couch in Alphabet City. I would take the subway up to Midtown, where Buttons Sound was (45th and 5th), with my guitar, in no shape to do anything but record.<p></p><p>The actor's professional headshot is no accident: I did some acting in Manhattan. I briefly joined 13th Street Rep, famous for Israel Horowitz and his piece Line, bounced around trying to get my plays produced, by Pure Pop, La Mama, and others, with little success. Paul Levin, who had some music biz cache as Tony Levin's nephew (Paul played bass too), was a godsend, and extended an extremely generous hand to me, making Buttons Sound for me a home away from home. The Darkyr Sooner sessions, beyond what's on the EP, also produced a second version of Riding the Waves, worth hearing. It's more spacy and less sharp than the single. </p><p>The single, it turns out, was done in the fall of '99, when I was commuting to Manhattan from Philly, where I was already ensconced in Logan Square. The recordings which comprised Darkyr Sooner waited until, through Gair Marking of dev79, I could upload them to mp3.com, which at that point was also a surrogate or would-be label. The first pressing was done in 2000. That year, Paul Levin several times commuted to Philly from NYC to play bass for me at shows, at the Khyber and elsewhere. He also met many folks who were to be key participants in the Philly Free School, like Matt Stevenson, Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, and Gaetan Spurgin. Mary H. he met later.</p><p>Mary and Abby liked Darkyr Sooner. Yet the entire point of the title, with the inhering Nick Drake pun, is that the collection would have to wait for any generalized success. We've seen some of that now. Really, the EP is a testament to Paul's generosity to me, as an artist he had no obligation to assist or patronize. Paul saw that I had some good material, so he decided to help me put it down on tape. All the niggling contingent factors, the months I spent starving and couch surfing, don't matter much now. What we're left with is a document in pop music, of the Nineties transitioning, moving towards something else. That's how I see the Darkyr Sooner muse we channeled: the sound of transition. </p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-62131032369779540452022-10-29T00:19:00.008-07:002022-12-07T21:17:44.319-08:00Darkyr Sooner: Indie!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7LQ_ENAGoTHsC0orXfng00wR-HdZKASOSTxqr0swxds15EZay3h4mDCdDLRf7sqTE4EmGqWDqdR1ihtZrNrQLQew4OIZAQyzrgRcgmcBbVDf4UMSSXETaDP5GawB4GYjEtE2pmD7BJoNFy2GKxF8QOLzDqJxUEZiMAdhkgDkJFRaaXFuNRbOLHwZ1w/s2325/DS2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="2060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7LQ_ENAGoTHsC0orXfng00wR-HdZKASOSTxqr0swxds15EZay3h4mDCdDLRf7sqTE4EmGqWDqdR1ihtZrNrQLQew4OIZAQyzrgRcgmcBbVDf4UMSSXETaDP5GawB4GYjEtE2pmD7BJoNFy2GKxF8QOLzDqJxUEZiMAdhkgDkJFRaaXFuNRbOLHwZ1w/s320/DS2.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br />Between Love Me, Blame Me, Riding the Waves, Sara Starr, and Deflating Raft, Darkyr Sooner now boasts four entries (#4, #3, #4 and #4, respectively) into the Soundclick Indie Top 5. Perfect for the spirit in which the EP was made. Cheers! <p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-14236052312429232742022-10-28T00:06:00.023-07:002023-02-21T07:58:11.927-08:00A Purple Feat or Pas de Deux (Jazz/Alternative)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubBXJsUvrsTO0zZmK_c4JWHRhUSp0o9ZfkyXTlqEaEy4rN_oTqetY3arfuVsiHRfwucpO2QS93F1BRY7AMCQVrXPoUPLjwQELFMH6eGWgflc4zgq3IvWkYgOp5sira9_id-aZdzw9MyVzmaJ1mXCvn1gEnWz4X3O4JxkjXIQMWAXo56aOvU1aMtJ2HQ/s500/Natalie%20Wood%2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="380" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubBXJsUvrsTO0zZmK_c4JWHRhUSp0o9ZfkyXTlqEaEy4rN_oTqetY3arfuVsiHRfwucpO2QS93F1BRY7AMCQVrXPoUPLjwQELFMH6eGWgflc4zgq3IvWkYgOp5sira9_id-aZdzw9MyVzmaJ1mXCvn1gEnWz4X3O4JxkjXIQMWAXo56aOvU1aMtJ2HQ/s320/Natalie%20Wood%2018.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> As of 10-28-22, 10-29, 11-3, 11-4, 11-5, and 11-6 the Adam Fieled/P.F.S. Soundclick account has a Top 20 song ranking in both the Jazz Overall and the Alternative Overall chart, simultaneously (A Clangorous Din, Love Me, Blame Me, #18-#20, #16-#15, #18-#15, #16-#16, #18-#18, #20-#18). Cheers. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S. As of 10-30, 10-31, 11-1, and 11-2 this repeated with two Top 30s (#24-#20, #22-#19, #30-#16, and #24-#16, respectively). More A Clangorous Din <a href="https://fieledsfairgame.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-clangorous-double-din.html">biz</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S.S. Two Top 30s, Jazz/Alternative, recurred with A Clangorous Din and another Darkyr Sooner track, Sara Starr, on 11-14 (#17-#28), 11-15 (#27-#20), 11-19 (#30-#19), 11-20 (#29-#23), and 11-21 (#25-#29).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Three Top 20s recurred, with A Clangorous Din and Sara Starr, on 11-16 (#19-#19), 11-18 (#19-#15), and 11-22 (#19-#20). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One Top 20 recurred, with A Clangorous Din and Deflating Raft, on 12-9 (#20-#20).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S. <a href="http://fieledsfairgame.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-return-of-citizen-clang.html">2023 chart details</a> for Clang-Din.</div><p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-78407452478688581112022-10-27T17:36:00.002-07:002022-10-27T17:36:55.896-07:00One for Mary Evelyn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAdskS7L27Ozv1GZzbD7huCCweAsw-iEvJzEb6i2qwiiX0ETHBL4ebHR9SyxAEbbSuOGqiP8jyLG0-J-2cY-TimkuQ7r_dNqCbk9-wP76GVkH133OFJSB2dwlQd1iaBF9xkId5SN-A1ubW5d-b1c08b-nZK1UISlrbEco8BpaOXcTZyz0UIcMJ6wFAQ/s488/MaryHeadE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="392" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAdskS7L27Ozv1GZzbD7huCCweAsw-iEvJzEb6i2qwiiX0ETHBL4ebHR9SyxAEbbSuOGqiP8jyLG0-J-2cY-TimkuQ7r_dNqCbk9-wP76GVkH133OFJSB2dwlQd1iaBF9xkId5SN-A1ubW5d-b1c08b-nZK1UISlrbEco8BpaOXcTZyz0UIcMJ6wFAQ/s320/MaryHeadE.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><br /> A song which could only have been written about <a href="https://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/estelle-do-my-thing-feat">Mary Evelyn Harju</a>; and brilliant R & B.<p></p>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925992069289517576.post-13178335388674372932022-10-25T07:08:00.004-07:002022-10-28T21:22:12.112-07:00Love Me, Blame Me<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVmNP5SiSpRmVTNAJ_gBphKzbwB_Nk8YSs38-a22fT8D7nuVJtE0fT8R_D8f4Jbv-YXG61WK8s4fX7l6gR_L4iHHmVeBlMJutu2UPKXGcbOEm_ebRMnyOoe46pItceVc12Spq-2vL0PpdxJBZOqenI1DME3btPal97UM26ZnQnmzN7Qnyl9ZfpvM0WQ/s2325/DS2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="2060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVmNP5SiSpRmVTNAJ_gBphKzbwB_Nk8YSs38-a22fT8D7nuVJtE0fT8R_D8f4Jbv-YXG61WK8s4fX7l6gR_L4iHHmVeBlMJutu2UPKXGcbOEm_ebRMnyOoe46pItceVc12Spq-2vL0PpdxJBZOqenI1DME3btPal97UM26ZnQnmzN7Qnyl9ZfpvM0WQ/s320/DS2.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br />Love Me, Blame Me from Darkyr Sooner is now out and in the Soundclick Alternative <a href="https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14505788">Top 100</a>. As of 10-29, we stand at Alternative Overall #15, Indie (sub-generic) #4. <div><br /></div><div>I wrote this one co-terminous (roughly) with She Disowned My Life. Two models were sitting there in my mind<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">— </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as of autumn '95, Billy Corgan boom-time to be sure, but Oasis were finally breaking big in the States, so they were around. Looming even larger, for this one, was The Loner, from Neil Young's first, eponymous solo album. By the time I got around to recording it in NYC in '99, I worked out an arrangement which put an emphasis on some modal guitar-playing flourishes, which could take a standard rock song and exoticize it, or Spanish-ify it, what have you. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to State College: most of this one worked out in Leete basement, North Halls, even though I lived in Holmes. The rock crew in Leete: Norm Fetter, Jen Stitz, Carmen Martella, were big for me at the time. Norm was Rick Wakeman's stunt-double, from Pottstown, no less, as Jen was from Doylestown. Cheers. </span></p></div>Adam Fieledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909851580874856025noreply@blogger.com0