Journal, News, Guests by Jim Fitting
wet and low
like in a foxhole, ducking ieds in some stinking war. Yeah it may be in the desert but it still stinks...wet and low.
down in the dumps because any source of news is a toothless dog curling up by the fire hoping to get his belly scratched by the big man.
lower than low because cursing Congress, the tv, newspapers and the car radio is getting pretty old. We could be sitting by the north fork of the Pemigawassett watching the leaves turn instead of soiling our hands with the ink of these wretches...
down in the bottom 'cuz Hi-n-Dry is closing its doors. Yeah, yeah they are moving to a brand new basement in the armory on Highland Ave. but...
We are gonna miss those wooden floors, brick walls and fat beams overhead; snatching songs right outta the air (and with a little patience hearing them come out on CD). That room would show you at your best with the crew, who were working for the love of it, dancing through the mic stands: Billy C and Matt Malikowski. Mazzone and Dube setting it up so the space just breathed with us...a lot of music has come out of that place. Session Americana recorded both of our CDs there. We backed up Bruno Greene and Rose Polenzani too. So relaxed, recording live up to ten of us at once, filling that room with sound and it talking back I swear. And that's just us. There is a long list of others, and we don't want to leave anyone out.
When Mark Sandman died in '99, there was no plan for the loft where he had lived. But in the struggle for control of his legacy with "interested "parties like Rykodisc and others, one seem to have naturally developed...Keeping that place going has been no easy task. Twinemen and those folks have put put more heart in to it than we can say. But when all the smoke cleared you could feel it. There is a spirit that lives in that place something warm and vital....
so wet and low was how we was feeling as we watched Twinemen put on a last house concert at Hi-n-Dry this past Friday. Laurie singing about spinning paint brushes and Dana learning to fly( did he really put the ick in harmonica? I dunno but he got the tone in baritone baby!). Jeremy squeezing the bottom tight. And of course Billy on drums, well you gotta have 'em...There is love in this house no matter what you say about the landlord or the neighbors or just the way things lay, there is love in this house...Hi-n-Dry (Farewell)
down in the dumps because any source of news is a toothless dog curling up by the fire hoping to get his belly scratched by the big man.
lower than low because cursing Congress, the tv, newspapers and the car radio is getting pretty old. We could be sitting by the north fork of the Pemigawassett watching the leaves turn instead of soiling our hands with the ink of these wretches...
down in the bottom 'cuz Hi-n-Dry is closing its doors. Yeah, yeah they are moving to a brand new basement in the armory on Highland Ave. but...
We are gonna miss those wooden floors, brick walls and fat beams overhead; snatching songs right outta the air (and with a little patience hearing them come out on CD). That room would show you at your best with the crew, who were working for the love of it, dancing through the mic stands: Billy C and Matt Malikowski. Mazzone and Dube setting it up so the space just breathed with us...a lot of music has come out of that place. Session Americana recorded both of our CDs there. We backed up Bruno Greene and Rose Polenzani too. So relaxed, recording live up to ten of us at once, filling that room with sound and it talking back I swear. And that's just us. There is a long list of others, and we don't want to leave anyone out.
When Mark Sandman died in '99, there was no plan for the loft where he had lived. But in the struggle for control of his legacy with "interested "parties like Rykodisc and others, one seem to have naturally developed...Keeping that place going has been no easy task. Twinemen and those folks have put put more heart in to it than we can say. But when all the smoke cleared you could feel it. There is a spirit that lives in that place something warm and vital....
so wet and low was how we was feeling as we watched Twinemen put on a last house concert at Hi-n-Dry this past Friday. Laurie singing about spinning paint brushes and Dana learning to fly( did he really put the ick in harmonica? I dunno but he got the tone in baritone baby!). Jeremy squeezing the bottom tight. And of course Billy on drums, well you gotta have 'em...There is love in this house no matter what you say about the landlord or the neighbors or just the way things lay, there is love in this house...Hi-n-Dry (Farewell)
