I always think of "That's Not The Way" as our first uptempo, somewhat-African influenced number. As you can hear on this tape - where we go back to it four times - it was a lot of fun to play. Why we did not keep this around is anybody's guess. I know the three of us loved it. As with many of these instances, it probably just got buried under the avalanche of new material that Hubie - and then the rest of us - were writing at the time.
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| These tapes were all unlabeled and at some pont in the early 90s, I tried to label them, hence the "late 87" date on the label. I later ascertained that the date must have been late March, possibly early April. "That's Not The Way" is performed on the April 13th "live demo" |
At the same time we are forging ahead with our new sound, we go back in time and try a couple of old favorites, "Rain" and "Feast Of Reason". I seem to have an axe to grind regarding "Rain", don't know why! I like it now!
We also do a version of Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner", a song we were in the habit of running through once in a blue moon. Years later, I opened for Richman over three nights, and mentioned to him we used to jam on this. (he couldn't have cared less, haha). (the story of those three nights could fill a whole other blog!)
Early on in the tape, as we're still setting up - er, well it sounds like Ted is setting up, and Hubie & I goofing around - Hubie runs through a song of his that we never got around to playing. Don't know the title (I always called it the "flowers" song, since there's a line: "I never bring flowers for you") but it has great chords and a great melody - as usual. We literally had shit like this just laying around.
I think this is the "breakthrough" version of "Return Britain" where we hit those harmonies on the break for the first time. We sure loved doing those! There's also a rendition of an old favorite of ours that didn't make out of the trio years, "Blue Billiards". I forget who it was about - but it's one we loved playing. There's also another "Teddy wake up!" sequence that's really funny and has Ted going up to one of the microphones and "performing" in secret with some found percussion (I think he was might have just been tapping on the microphone)
Anyways, that's about it for this one....only thing left to do is enjoy the young and savage LOOB at the office space! Yadahay!!!
Rehearsal, Suffolk Office, 3/88
Untitled Hubie song ("Flowers")
That's Not The Way (moment of conception)
Roadrunner
Phobia
Blue Billiards
Return Britain
That's Not The Way
Inside Outside
That's Not The Way
Rain
Feast Of Reason
Unknown song/jam
I Know Your Name
That's Not The Way
Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal
Ted Schreiber - bass, vocal, burp
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal
Download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fqodz2qpjevjwef/1988-03_Suffolk_Office.zip
