Relentless Pursuit RD4128. First pressing of Glass's archival first CD. Can be autographed upon request. Will not come shrinkwrapped if autographed. Free shipping.
Includes unlimited streaming of No Stranger to the Skies, Vol.s I & II 2000
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No Stranger to the Skies Compact Disc (postpaid)
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Musea FGBG 4516-AR. Second pressing of Glass's archival first CD. Can be autographed upon request. Will not come shrinkwrapped if autographed. Free shipping.
Includes unlimited streaming of No Stranger to the Skies, Vol.s I & II 2000
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Thoughts about the song:
At that time Glass was rehearsing in downtown Port Townsend in a vacant storefront space rented by a man Greg had befriended. He was known only as "Crazy John." In the months before his twenty-first birthday (February 25th, 1975) Greg would go down to the Town Tavern on Water Street and hang out with him. They would drink pitchers of dark beer and Greg would listen to him ramble about his alleged years in the priesthood and seminary school. Frequently he would be asked for I.D. and, unable to provide it, be asked to leave. Greg later recalls, "I remember working out the Mellotron part to "No Stranger.." (where the Mellotron is channeled through the filter of the ARP 2600 to get that eerie sound) in that cold, dark storefront."
Jeff adds, "I hadn't had the Moog Taurus Pedals all that long when we started working on "No Stranger..." and being required to fill the low end of some of our new compositions with bass pedal playing was, to say the least, challenging. I can still remember writing it. The central melodic theme of the faster verses actually started out as a bass guitar lick but got transferred to the Fender Rhodes left hand part when we started rehearsing with Paul Black. Jerry had just left the group and we brought Paul into the band as a way to keep the momentum going. I had made some business contacts in England that summer and we had been asked to supply a new demo of the band by one of them. The original idea behind "No Stranger..." is a little Sci-Fi story I made up about a man who feels alienated from everyone around him. At night he stands out in his backyard looking upward, feeling a sense of belonging. Belonging to somewhere else... like his REAL home is Out There. I'd love to make a short film about it all someday using the track and the idea." Jeff also explains, "Changes in instrumentation were seen as necessary to the new changes in personnel. In fact, if memory serves me, Glass was always very big on adding or changing instrumentation every time we had to weather a crisis of any kind. With Glass the "High-Tech" technology of the day.
The original recording dates were May 19th & 20th, 1975 at The Evergreen State College. The engineer was Bob Martin with Erik Poulson assisting. Overdubs were added October 12th, 1977 at Holden, Hamilton & Roberts Studio, engineered by Bob Holden and Don McKinney. Final overdubs were added in January 1978 at Kaye-Smith Studio, engineered and mixed by Glass and Dick "Dr. A" Maltby.
This track was unique in that it was originally done on the 8-track (one inch) Ampex at TESC. That master, the "Traveling Master"－so-named for its many trips to different studios－went with us to HHR and then to Kaye-Smith.
