The Whispering Swarm
“Back across the road I told him what had happened and asked him what he thought it meant. ‘Probably means she’s going to divorce you,’ he said with that deadpan look which had got him flattened more than once. But I had a feeling he was right. I was beginning to think Helena had her eye on someone else.
We smoked some dope and went over a couple of numbers. He had a habit of composing tunes that were almost unsingable and required some serious vocal gymnastics. I could make the range but came o...ut sounding like a second-rate operatic tenor. The times had made us overconfident. We were slowly realising that the pop world wasn’t ready for Schoenberg-inspired rock songs. We had a gig at Dingwalls in a few days. I decided to focus on that. And we’d keep it simple. No messing about with weird key changes and time signatures. Like most of my friends, Pete was a natural sceptic. Probably because he had been in two of the most infamous stoner bands of all time—High Tide and The Third Ear—Pete was no longer inclined to speculate about God and the universe.MoreLess
We smoked some dope and went over a couple of numbers. He had a habit of composing tunes that were almost unsingable and required some serious vocal gymnastics. I could make the range but came o...ut sounding like a second-rate operatic tenor. The times had made us overconfident. We were slowly realising that the pop world wasn’t ready for Schoenberg-inspired rock songs. We had a gig at Dingwalls in a few days. I decided to focus on that. And we’d keep it simple. No messing about with weird key changes and time signatures. Like most of my friends, Pete was a natural sceptic. Probably because he had been in two of the most infamous stoner bands of all time—High Tide and The Third Ear—Pete was no longer inclined to speculate about God and the universe.MoreLess
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