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
18th 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 7th Memo Music Hall St Kilda
https://www.memomusichall.com.au/memo-gig/40th-anniversary-of-rain-dogs-with-10-years-of-tom/
Sat Feb 8th Royal Theatre Castlemaine
https://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/034ecc48-2645-4933-8f61-cf8f3744b1e4
Sunday
Feb 9th 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
15th March, Kindred Bandroom, Yarraville, Vic
Dave Graney and Clare Moore/Dave Graney and the mistLY
Dave Graney and Clare Moore (with Greg Thorsby on bass)
Sunday March 23rd The Chippo (Chippendale Hotel) Sydney NSW
https://tickets.themusicandboozeco.com.au/outlet/event/75fc66ce-f3b2-4f03-96aa-f567f9d27d3a
Friday March 28th 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-throughCould 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.
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