music: Geoff Scott’s Public House, 9/21/04
Music has been riding the bench along with the rest of my life since the summer ended. David, as of late, has been more or less ignored while Mr. Taus is busy getting it together. Tonight, though, I indulged and recorded some ideas that have been kicking around since the road trip. One of these ideas is yet another sappy campfire folk tune extolling the virtues of the open road and the wilderness. This one is called ‘Miles from Nowhere.’ The vocal tracks are painful to listen to. I was much better with my singing at the end of the summer, when we busied ourselves with singing and playing every day. I’m still maintaining some limited proficiency on the stings, but my singing voice is suffering from gross neglect. No matter. Add it to the repertoire of originals, and call it the first one that was written solo. It’s passable as far as acoustic folk music goes, but I’m not really that interested in making that sort of music these days. I’d rather plug in and rock hard or funk deep. Still, nice to have another original under my belt.
It appears that I’m not the only one distributing original music on the internet. (No, technically, thousands of people do this every day…) This one hits close to home. If the secret wasn’t out yet, it is definitely out now: Tuesday Night at Matt Murphy’s is now on archive.org. The little weeknight residency that I frequented for so many months is now hitting the information superhighway, freely downloadable by anyone with an internet connection. It’s the way things should be, I suppose, but I feel some remnant of selfishness over Tuesday Night even though I haven’t gone in more than 6 weeks, and only 10 or so times this whole year. The last time I went in there was a plainclothes stranger carding at the door, and the crowd was completely fresh to me. Besides the musicians themselves and Jason behind the bar, the Tuesday Night scene is no longer mine. Not that I could pop out at midnight on a Tuesday anymore…Mr. Taus wouldn’t allow it.
The music, though, is what matters. The stuff that comes out of that little corner of the bar is some of the best stuff I’ve heard. Period. That is why I’m thankful that Geo allowed his stuff to be put up on archive.org; people who like music really should hear this unadvertised residency. I’ve been writing about Tuesday night for some time now and have been listening to live recordings of the Murphy’s sessions for even longer. I did a review of Tuesday Night for Live Live a year or so back, and it sums up the experience (at least, the experience than) nicely. Thanks to taper acquaintences and friends, I have amassed a decent collection of recordings from Tuesday Night and have passed copies around where appropriate.
Be it Tuesday Night at Matt Murphy’s or David’s cheesey campfire folk music, the internet is a powerful way to indiscriminately throw music around without regard to distance or hard format. Thanks to my computer gurus DFC and tmo I’m able to join the information race. Maybe one day I too will be up on archive.org…
Posted by davidtaus at October 9, 2004 01:01 AM