Douglas Witmer
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
more landscape paperweight
Parallel Road, 1988 original. The video actually begins with the last few minutes of one of my new originals called "Come Around." "Parallel Road" was written by Daryl. Our recording of this is one of the most sonically sophisticated things we ever did (whether it worked or not), and lyrically I always found it compelling. It's easily my favorite song of ours. Back in high school I could barely play guitar. I mostly sang and "danced" awkwardly. Through the years I always wished we could have given this song a really good go in front of an audience. The highlight of the night for me was being able to front the band on this one, singing and playing guitar.
Wishes and Sand, 1988 original. This one was one of the few entirely written by me. I favored the tidily arranged, moody-chorded, melodramatic love song. It has a nice melody and was probably our most popular song. (Word has it some of our friends in the crowd were singing the back-up vocal parts.)
Labels: Landscape Paperweight, music
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