Parking Lot Scenes.

   

 

Parking Lot Scenes takes it title from a movie about Grateful Dead fans who would gather in force and go off piste in the parking lots around the giant venues they would play.  

I played autoharp and bass and sang to a hip hop loop and Stuart Perera added some beautiful guitar lines. 

Its a lyric about musical inspiration, sometimes only flashes or moments of energy or power. 

It mentions some of my favourites in the lyric.

two minutes of Bauhaus - what more do you want?

hey too bad! Thats all they had

but hey! For a while - that was enough

Dear Mama- All eyez on me- a disc of Tupac

only God can judge him now

a dark star of the Dead- infinite loop

you’ll get sucked in too

like a Texas cyclone-  like a Texas Funeral

don’t be a guts- if that’s all  they had

a Happy Trail of Quicksilver

a night in Tunisa

salt peanuts , Dizzy!

a Brave Exhibition from The Boys Next Door

then put The Hair Shirt on

a Second Helping of Skynyrd

a Brian of Stones

a Chaka Khan

a Christine of Siouxsie

a Pop Tone of PIL

a Date With The Cramps- a Jokey War Dance

don’t be a guts - that’s all there is

be cool with that

the Dead were too big for the formats, awlways

they couldn’t turn it on

they gave the Western Desert people framed canvases and said “fill it up”

Its a single frame from a big movie for all we know

some people don’t fit the profiles

they ain’t the usual suspects

they work in their own time and space

they make their own sense

no good in snapshots

no good for Tik Toks

no good for porch shows or the blues

parking lot scenes

 

 Bauhaus live at Coachella in 2009. Can't doubt Peter Murphys commitment here. This song has a great two minutes for me - then they run out of licks. But its worth it for those first minutes.

Tupac - Dear Mama. Incredibly afeecting song for me . (Not strictly from ALL EYEZ ON ME though, it preceded it).

Tupac- Only God Can Judge Me Now, from ALL EYEZ ON ME

The Grateful Dead - Dark Star

Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral. The album that contains Terxas Cyclone , Texas Jail Cell, Texas Wine and Texas Studio and But I Got Texas.

Quicksilver Messenger Service. Mona. A different version to that on HAPPY TRAILS. This performance also features their singer Dino Valenti who was in gaol when they recorded that album.

Dizzy Gillespie- A Night In Tunisia. 

Dizzy Gillespie - Salt peanuts.

The Boys Next Door - Brave Exhibitions. The four piece, pre Rowland Howards joining. 

The Boys Next Door - The Hair Shirt . After Rowland Howards joining. 

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin' For MCA. A couple of years after Second Helping and minus guitarist Ed King who wrote the music for Sweet Home Alabama.

The Rolling Stones, still with Brian Jones. His power still matching both Mick and Keith. Their sound still holding all the magical shimmer and fog he brought to it. 

Chaka Khan with Rufus

Chaka Khan solo

Siouxsie and The Banshees- Christine

PIL performing Poptones live. Not as good as the recorded version on Metal Box. They didn't have it in them to hold together or to play live much. But the music they made in that brief period was great.

Garbage Man from the Cramps. I loved the Bryan Gregory period. 

Killing Joke - The War Dance. Geordies great guitar that he played for their entire career and Jaz's mad, paranoid ranting. They really had  a spark. 

The Grateful Dead crowd. Parking Lot Scenes.

Hey we are playing some shows soon....

Jan 18^th Saturday afternoon at George Lane, St Kilda
Dave Graney and Clare Moore/Dave Graney and the mistLY

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1329714

 

Dave Graney, one of multiple singers at these three Tom Waits shows. Ten Years Of Tom Waits. Focusing on albums betyween 77-87

"Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Tom Waits’ ‘Rain Dogs’ with 10 Years of Tom is a homage to Tom Waits from 1977- 1987.  Performed by Dave Graney, Lachlan Bryan, Brooke Taylor, Delsinki and Maggie Alley. Backed by richly talented band"

Friday Feb 7^th Memo Music Hall St Kilda

https://www.memomusichall.com.au/memo-gig/40th-anniversary-of-rain-dogs-with-10-years-of-tom/

Sat Feb 8^th Royal Theatre Castlemaine

https://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/034ecc48-2645-4933-8f61-cf8f3744b1e4

Sunday Feb 9^th Brunswick Ballroom
https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/10-years-of-tom-featuring-dave-graney-lachlan-bryan-brooke-taylor-delsinki-and/174382

 

 

 Dave Graney and Clare Moore (with Q on bass)

Thursday Feb 13th - the Wheaty, Thebarton, Adelaide SA

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/54d30100-eee0-44fc-ac32-aa519ee21263

Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Friday Feb 14th Bellwether Wines, Coonawarra, SA

https://www.bellwetherwines.com.au/products/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-friday-14th-feb

 

Sat 15^th March, Kindred Bandroom, Yarraville, Vic
Dave Graney and Clare Moore/Dave Graney and the mistLY

https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-clare-moore-dave-graney-the-mistly/174931?ref=RSS_kindredstudios&skin=kindredstudios

 

 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore (with Greg Thorsby on bass)

Sunday March 23^rd The Chippo (Chippendale Hotel) Sydney NSW

https://tickets.themusicandboozeco.com.au/outlet/event/75fc66ce-f3b2-4f03-96aa-f567f9d27d3a

 

Friday  March 28^th Finding Fillmores - Kiama, NSW

Saturday  March ^{29th  The Servo, Port Kembla, NSW 
https://events.humanitix.com/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-port-kembla}

 

Wednesday August 6th , Ararat , Vic

https://ararattownhall.com.au/event/dave-graney-clare-moore/

 

 

I PASSED THROUGH MINOR CHORD IN A MORNING

Dave Graney and Clare Moore – featuring Stuart Perera.

 

Digital album, out Now

 

14 songs. All new studio affair, no songs written as chords and lyrics on a guitar.
Cover image by Izabella Shaw.

"The sign of a good album is that you immediately want to go back and listen to it again. As someone who listens to at least three new albums a day as part of the process of creating the World of Jazz and Different Noises Shows the chances these days of listening to a new album more than once are small. With this one there is a compulsion to return to it - the verbal dexterity alone is sufficient to warrant repeat listenings but the difference in the music on offer this time from Dave and Clare also draws me back to it. ".

Bob Osborne – Different Noises. https://bobosborne.substack.com/p/passing-through

Could be called our basement tapes album. (Our studio is downstairs).
 Could also be our most post punkest of albums. Certainly our most auto-harped album.

Some songs started life twenty years ago, some six or seven years ago, two built from processed and distorted sounds recorded almost thirty years ago. Four began life as bass and drum improvisations into a single mic four months before the albums release and two as fresh as two months before it was pronounced cut and printed.

 

“After we finished our April 2024 album (strangely)(emotional) Clare Moore suggested I do an album of freewheeling lyrics and perhaps even talking/speaking. That’s where it kind of started”.

 

Dave Graney – guitars, bass, autoharp, some keys and some beats and lead vocals.

Clare Moore – keys, vibes, drums, percussion, backing vocals.

Stuart Perera – guitar.

 

http://www.davegraney.com

https://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/davegraney

https://davegraney.substack.com/

https://www.facebook.com/davegraneymusic
https://www.instagram.com/dave_graney/

Shows coming up in 2025

 

                                             photo Charlie Kinross

Thanks to everybody who came along to our shows in 2024. We appreciate it. Thanks to Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera for playing music with us, as well as Greg Thorsby, Quintin Dunne, Martyn Casey and Adele Pickvance. 

We are playing some shows in 2025 and here are some links...

Jan 18^th Saturday afternoon at George Lane, St Kilda
Dave Graney and Clare Moore/Dave Graney and the mistLY

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1329714

 

Dave Graney, one of multiple singers at these three Tom Waits shows. Ten Years Of Tom Waits. Focusing on albums betyween 77-87

"Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Tom Waits’ ‘Rain Dogs’ with 10 Years of Tom is a homage to Tom Waits from 1977- 1987.  Performed by Dave Graney, Lachlan Bryan, Brooke Taylor, Delsinki and Maggie Alley. Backed by richly talented band"

Friday Feb 7^th Memo Music Hall St Kilda

https://www.memomusichall.com.au/memo-gig/40th-anniversary-of-rain-dogs-with-10-years-of-tom/

Sat Feb 8^th Royal Theatre Castlemaine

https://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/034ecc48-2645-4933-8f61-cf8f3744b1e4

Sunday Feb 9^th Brunswick Ballroom
https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/10-years-of-tom-featuring-dave-graney-lachlan-bryan-brooke-taylor-delsinki-and/174382

 

 Dave Graney and Clare Moore (with Q on bass)

Thursday Feb 13th - the Wheaty, Thebarton, Adelaide SA

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/54d30100-eee0-44fc-ac32-aa519ee21263

Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Friday Feb 14th Bellwether Wines, Coonawarra, SA

https://www.bellwetherwines.com.au/products/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-friday-14th-feb

 
 

Sat 15^th March, Kindred Bandroom, Yarraville, Vic
Dave Graney and Clare Moore/Dave Graney and the mistLY

https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-clare-moore-dave-graney-the-mistly/174931?ref=RSS_kindredstudios&skin=kindredstudios

Dave Graney and Clare Moore (with Greg Thorsby on bass)

Sunday March 23^rd The Chippo (Chippendale Hotel) Sydney NSW

https://tickets.themusicandboozeco.com.au/outlet/event/75fc66ce-f3b2-4f03-96aa-f567f9d27d3a

Friday  March 28^th Finding Fillmores - Kiama, NSW

Saturday  March ^{29th  The Servo, Port Kembla, NSW 
https://events.humanitix.com/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-port-kembla}

Wednesday August 6th , Ararat , Vic

https://ararattownhall.com.au/event/dave-graney-clare-moore/

 

Things I've enjoyed this year.

Books ...

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Clinton Walkers 33 1/3 book on Saturday Night Fever
The first half of John Dos Passos USA
Phillip Of Australia by M Barnard Eldershaw
Nick Tosches Save The Last Dance For Satan
The Collected short stories of JG Ballard

tv series

The Deuce
From
Man In A Suitcase
Dangerman

podcasts

Sizzletown
Nymphet Alumni
BTR boxing Career overveiews of Sonny Liston and others
History of Rock in 500 songs
The Rest Is History - especially the lead up to WWI, and the Aztecs and Cortes.

Music

Tropical Strength by the Fauves
Luxury Bat by Cold Hands Warm Heart

Probably the most played album would be Nicely Out Of Tune by Lindisfarne
 

Looking forward to.....

Album release from Twinkledigitz
Single release by Keyo Roses Flying Circus

I've been publishing other writing and podcasts at my substack. Here is a link to the latest. https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/ao?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

 

 

I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning - Its a Quantum Americana Album - notes on the tracks and recordings and conceptual flow.

 

 

I PASSED THROUGH MINOR CHORD IN A MORNING

14 track album . out November 11th 2024

Cover image by Izabella Shaw.

Could be called our basement tapes album.
Our studio is downstairs.
Could also be our most post-punkest of albums. Certainly our most auto-harped album.
Some songs started life twenty years ago, some six or seven years ago, two built from processed and distorted sounds recorded almost thirty years ago. Four began life as bass and drum improvisations into a single mic four months before the albums release and two as fresh as three months ago.
There are some two minute songs and several almost ten minute epics.

After we finished our April 2024 album (strangely)(emotional) Clare Moore suggested I do an album of freewheeling lyrics and perhaps even talking/speaking. That’s where it kind of started. 

Elvis Never

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

Dave Graney, found sounds, 4 track bounces and cuts and pastes, vocals, keys, bass, guitar. 

Australian colloquialism. When its said "so and so never..." It means that didn't or never had to do somethin.

This and Still Got The Truth were slabs of cut and paste chaos which I’d been experimenting with since 2021. I had bought a 4 track cassette recorder and was bouncing sounds into and out of it and bringing them into the digital realm. I had no grid or sequence to cut it all to but I could hear a beat and sang to it and then cut and pasted and deep fried it all some more. I was most happy that the songs were barely two minutes in length.

 

 

Still Got The Truth
(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

Dave Graney, found sounds, 4 track bounces and cuts and pastes, vocals, bass, guitar

 

Its true- I still got the truth. But like the song says- you got to choose your battles!

This and Elvis Never were of a pair in cut and paste madness and squall. Also both worked out of base material that was decades old. I was most happy that the songs were barely two minutes in length.

 

Acceptable Back Story

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney-Clare Moore)

 

Clare Moore, drums.
Dave Graney, bass, reverse guitar sounds, vocal
Stuart Perera, guitar
Mark Fitzgibbon, piano from 2007 treated backwards (sorry Mark)

Some people need trusted sources if they are going to give you their attention. They are easily spooked.
Music  came from an improvised session of bass and drums being recorded by one mic and a stereo Zoom recorder in our studio in July 2024  just before we headed off to do some shows interstate. We then forgot about them. I just wanted to have a long groove that drifted in and out of focus that I could talk over. It had a funny quality to it in that we were both hearing the one in different places (as in 1-2-3-4) but it still all held together. I brought in some backward sounds from older recordings. I also used a few studio plugins that had a life of their own. Its all very improvised, even the studio stuff. 

"the principality of Werona" refers to the street I grew up in in Mt Gambier.

 

 

Parking Lot Scenes

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

 

Dave Graney, beats, loop, bass, vocals, autoharp
Stuart Perera, guitar

 Parking Lot Scene takes it title from a movie about Grateful Dead fans who would gather inforce and go off piste in the parking lots around the giant venues they would play.
This and Emcee Bitz were both studio improvisations that happened when I learned how to loop a drum beat. Then I strummed my autoharp and cut that to the beat. Stuart Perera flew his guitar in later.

 

Did You Have Servants?

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney-Clare Moore-Stuart Perera)

 

Clare Moore, drums, backing vocals
Dave Graney, bass, vocal
Stuart Perera, guitar

From the improvised bass and drums into one mic session. Then Stuart Perera added some hard rock tones and turned it into something else.
I tried to keep the vocal steady and deadpan but commanding. I didn't want to get all emotional/angry.
Surely you have met people who have always had other people following them to clean up their mess?

 

 

I’d Rather The Frills

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, vocal
Clare Moore, keys, bass drum, percussion

 

Goes back to 2004 and an experiment with open D tuning and some 12 string raga guitar moments. Clare added a stomping bass drum and keys. When I had first dug it up and out and spruced it a little she thought it was a track by the Moodists.

 

1985

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney-Clare Moore-Stuart Perera)

 

Clare Moore, drums
Dave Graney, bass, found sounds, effects, vocal
Stuart Perera, guitar

 A roundabout song which in a roundabout way refers to the year before 1985. A famous year that promised a dystopian world. But here we are decades later.
From an improvised session of bass and drums being recorded by one mic and a stereo Zoom recorder in our studio in July 2024  just before we headed off to do some shows interstate. We then forgot about them.
Stuart Perera added some guitar and it seemed he heard a different song as he transformed the whole vibe, like a jazz player taking off. He added all these changes that were not there before. Changed it at will from minor to major.

 

A Rampart Across Time

(words Dave Graney/music Stuart Perera)

Clare Moore, drums, organ
Dave Graney, bass, vocal
Stuart Perera, guitars

 

Stuart Perera sent me this music that he had recorded to his phone back with his nylon string guitar in 2021.  I turned into a song and sang along to it. Stuart added some more guitar parts. Lovely kind of Bill Withers feel to it.

 

Girls Are Famous
(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney-Clare Moore)

Clare Moore, drums, keys
Dave Graney, bass, autoharp, vocal

 

From the improvised session.

Clare added some keys from a new/old module she bought after we got back. The original jam was about ten minutes and I cut into it at about half way through, when we had found a solid groove.
The lyric is deadpan. The singer is a man and he is addressing the listener who has to be another man. Talking about girls. Women. Famous things are objects. That “people” stare at, consume, touch. 

 

 

I Passed Through Minor Chord In a Morning

(words Dave Graney/music Clare Moore

Clare Moore, drums, synth bass, vibes, keys
Dave Graney vocal, fuzz guitar
Stuart Perera, delay guitar

 

This was started by Clare Moore with a beat, keyboard bass synth and vibes in 2008 and she had Stuart Perera play some guitar on it. Its been sitting in the archives since then. The lyric is talking about Minor Chord as a physical place - a town that the singer passes through. (I generally avoid minor chords- and three/four or 6/8 time) . I thought the title had a cosmic folk ring to it. In some ways this is a Quantum Americana album. 

 

Emcee Bitz

(words Dave Graney/music Clare Moore)

Dave Graney, beat, vocals
Clare Moore, organ, piano

 

Music is a powerful force for the listener but also for the player. It can be toxic and dangerous. Dealing with forbidden, unspoken, antapped stuff. As well as many other positive things.
This and Parking Lot Scenes were both studio improvisations that happened when I learned how to loop a drum beat. Emcee Bitz is a lyric about performing your life story.

 

 

I’m Against it (whadda you got?)

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

Clare Moore, drums, keys, backing vocals
Dave Graney, bass, guitars, keys, vocal
Will Hindmarsh, backing vocals

 

Have you ever seen the movie The Wild One? The scene where somebody asks Marlon Brando what he is rebelling against? His answer was "whadda ya got?"
Music based on a rhythm track from 2016. And that was based on a track from 2007.

 

Et Tu, Doudou?

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney)

Clare Moore, drums, percussion, backing vocals
Dave Graney, bass, guitars, autoharp, keys, vocal

This dates from 2017 and concerns a story Georgio “the Dove” Valentino (who we had just been touring with) told us about a childhood totem he had taken with him on an epic journey of many years from Florida and around the USA and Europe and the trauma he felt when it was stolen from his car one dark night in Belgium.

I kept piling on guitars and autoharp and keys and using processors and the 4 track bounces and compressors over and over. The chords being strangely (for me) MAJOR.

 

                                                photo Greg Thorsby

The Trojan Egg

(words Dave Graney/music Dave Graney-Clare Moore)

Clare Moore, drums, organ
Dave Graney, autoharp, vocal

The Trojan Egg was built up from the skeleton of a song that appeared on Fearful Wiggings in 2014. Its a nice prog ending to an album of strangeness and-hopefully-quirks and charm.

I PASSED THROUGH MINOR CHORD IN A MORNING is a digital release and is available/ accessible through all digital outlets. I see us in a period where we will be releasing lots of music and its not possible for us to make physical releases of them all.

This is available through our Bandcamp site as a digital release with t shirt bundle if you would like.

 

T Shirt with image from the album I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning. Digital album released 11-11-24.
Available in Navy .

Image by Izabella Shaw.

 
Sizes S M L XL 2XL
and
WXS WS WM WL WXL

This t shirt comes with a digital copy of the 2024 studio album I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning.