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Out of Time: The Wayne Barker Session 1971

by Glass

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I’ve been waiting 51 years to release this album. I can still remember the session at Wayne's home studio that produced it. Two of us, my brother Greg and our drummer Jerry Cook, were still in high school. We had a friend (and future Glass drummer) Paul Black who was down in LA. working on singer-songwriter Ron Davies' A&M album to be called “Silent Song Through the Land.” During a call to Paul at the time he urged us to get him a good demo tape of what Glass was doing. Always a Glass supporter, he was willing to take it to the people at A&M to see if they’d be interested in signing Glass to the label. We were ecstatic. This seemed like one of those rare “breaks” bands sometimes get to get past the record company’s gatekeepers and directly to the decision makers. But we didn’t know of any studios to use. In fact, we had never been in a professionally-equipped studio before. Paul gave us Wayne's name and contact information. And told us he had a studio in his home that he and other Bremerton musicians had used to great advantage.

I called Wayne and found him to be quite agreeable and scheduled a session for Glass in early February of 1971. Never having recorded in any kind of studio, we had no idea what to expect. We had seen The Soft Machine a couple years earlier and had started writing and performing our own material in the format we had seen them use – long sets of songs strung together in “suites.” So we worked up our original material and figured we’d be able to record it quickly and save money. After all, it was $15 an hour! Wayne lived in Kent, Washington which is about a two hour drive from Pt Townsend. The day he had available was a Monday (we must have skipped school) so we set out late morning and got to Wayne’s in the afternoon. An unassuming home in the quiet countryside. We met Wayne, a most welcome and friendly man, and set about getting our gear in his house and setting up to play. I remember his “drum booth” was his egg-shell carton-covered front porch. Big enough for a typical rock drum set, it barely contained Jerry's double bass drum green sparkle Rogers set. Greg and I set up in what was Wayne’s living room. Wayne’s recording gear was an old Ampex two-channel half-track high speed reel-to-reel deck into which he fed a mixer that had all these great Sony condenser mics plugged into it. We were basically recording “live” instrumental backing tracks. And then doing limited overdubs (I think three was the max) by bouncing back to the Ampex from another reel-to-reel deck he had for making mixdowns. Wayne typically recorded area rock bands that usually just had a vocal or lead guitar overdub. He’d never down anything quite as “unique” as a wanna-be Soft Machine clone band. He had no idea what we were about but he soldiered on valiantly.

Once we got rolling with the recording we barreled through our set – I think we did it well enough on the 2nd or 3rd take. And I set about doing our vocal overdubs such as they were. We even did a few other songs I had written because we had paid for the entire evening and wanted to squeeze as much material in as we could. We “mixed” it all after that process was done. We then loaded up Jerry's mom's camper truck and headed home with our first 'Professional Demo' in hand. I don’t know what the time was but I do know we arrived back in Pt Townsend the following morning just in time for Jerry and Greg to head off to Port Townsend High School for their first period classes Tuesday. I crashed in my bedroom and slept in until early afternoon. I woke to Jerry and Greg in my bedroom playing our new tape on Greg’s and my Ampex 761 reel-to-reel. . . .pride and a feeling of purpose flooded through us all. . . surely we’d made the “Big Time” now!


"Thanks for bringing this to my / our attention. If I am going to listen to bands with obvious Soft Machine influences, 1971 is of greater interest to me than 2021. So, right on!"
-Steve Feigenbaum, Cuneiform Records

Recorded in one long overnight session at Wayne Barker's Studio in Kent, Washington, February 8-9, 1971.

Tracks 1 thru 14 are a single continuous suite entitled "Out Of Time," in the manner of Soft Machine's first two albums.

All songs written and arranged by Jeff Sherman, Greg Sherman or Jerry Cook as noted. Engineer: Wayne Barker. Produced by Glass.

All titles published by Relentless Pursuit Music, BMI. © 1971 All Rights Reserved

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released July 4, 2022

Glass (original incarnation, 1969-1976):

Jeff Sherman: Epiphone Newport EBS bass (Cherry Burst), Harmony Sovereign H1260 acoustic guitar, vocals

Greg Sherman: Farfisa Compact organ, Wurlitzer 200A electronic piano, Wayne's upright piano

Jerry Cook: Rogers drumkit (green sparkle, dual bass drums)


Cover photo: Evelyn Sherman

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