There was a British show on tv when I was a kid called Take 3 Girls about a trio of girls who moved to London from various bits o' the UK and their adventures and tribulations in the big smoke. That's almost the limit of my memory of the show except for the theme song which I was to find out was by the folk group Pentangle. A few years later when my sister bought the album Basket of Light I went zaperooniobop when that song was the first track. It got better as the album had their extended version. The song is called Light Flight.
Cut to 1984, the year after I graduated which involved me catching up on a lot of reading and listening for the hell of it which study had all but forbidden. Out of sheer nostalgia I bought a rerelease of two Pentangle albums. The second one, Pentangling had a track with a similar feel called I've Got a Feeling. That's another thing I liked about them, they didn't try to make folk music rocky but found a jazzier base for it which created something really uplifting. I had to write a song like that. This is it.
We recorded this twice in 1984, once as a four track demo and then at Basement on eight track. The first would have made it into the Mission Brown Apocalypse compilation but my copy has a bit where I klutzed the cassette player and left a big clunky glitch on it and then couldn't find another copy. The Basement version suffered from that session's ugly sounding plugged in acoustic as well as me yelling a vocal that should have been almost whispered. Another influence on the track was Brazil 66's version of Norwegian Wood with the singer putting a lot of jazzy portamentos into the melody, almost creating a new tune. I was trying to do that. I still can't but this new version gets closer.
The words?
If you went to university in Australia when it was virtually free you met one or more people who seemed to have become lifelong and perhaps eternal students. Some drifting with the currents of the ice floes others building misshapen cathedrals of scholarship with postgrad work and at least one who was in it for the politics. This is pretty much about them. For them, too, really. Such figures are no longer affordable to the bottom-line world. I miss them. Meantime...
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