sweet salvation
the story behind theatre mouse
it is with fond remembrance
a 40+ y/o tape
buried in the back of a closet, dusty
longshot; maybe rod can save this
I mean, no one has heard this
in decades
old friends can make things happen
still passing the torch & hoping for the best
if anyone can salvage it? It will be rod
a familiar focus, in quiet deliberation
days later and
ok, holy shit
rod flawlessly snags theatre mouse
just after baking the tape & immediately before
the crumbling oxide it's on
disintegrates forever on his revox
what are the odds? ... and so
here we go
my old friends & 70's musical cohorts
are once again, collaborating
mark & I played in 3 bands together
and recorded stuff when we studied at
music industry arts
in london ontario
rod phelan, a mentor of us both back then
and did the sound for BOND in '79
when mark & I were in it
visionary
in late '77, I talked mark into leaving school early
to join me in major hooples in kitchener
big show - transport, road crew
floyd, supertramp & elp prog covers mostly
a ridiculous production - a blast
.
after a roller coaster year,
he returned to fanshawe to finish his final year
and recorded this masterpiece
w/vocalist & songwriter extraordinaire - michael kelly
at springfield sound just outside london ontario
T H E A T R E M O U S E
epilogue
mark finished MIA and then joined BOND
w/me for another year before I shifted
into studio mode; both still here
42 years later
cool
both still w/a fractured appreciation
of magic - recognizing early on
when it's about to arrive, knowing
there's a good chance
of a revisitation
or not
like, if it happens it's because it was meant to
doesn't? wasn't supposed to be
kind of attitude - miss that
.
honesty?
it's even more relevant now
the old man in the empty house
his best performance
theatre mouse
