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Great Nature Theatre - Girl With the Far Away Eyes (1982).mp3 12-Sep-2004 19:23 3.6M VBR MP3 Soundfile
About the recordings:
The all new free Great Nature Theatre of Oklahoma was founded in 1979 by Gary Lawrence Murphy and, during it's 21 year history, recorded hundreds of miles of 2-track tape. Taking its name from Franz Kafka's Amerika, the popularity of the band can only be attributed to its one simple concert rule:
Everyone is welcome to join the band
Core band members held the sessions together and those who thought themselves to be non-musicians were coached with simple verbal rhythmic phrases to help them follow the beat and maybe a 10 second tutorial on the mechanics of their instrument. It was common to have a drummer, guitarist or bassist who had never before held an instrument in their hands. Many of the instruments did not exist, assembled from bits of furniture and kitchen ware or squeezed out of a guitar using electro-accoustic techniques, and recorded on a veritable zoo of old discarded cassette and reel-to-real equipment. A polished, 'professional' sound was irrelevant --- we made this music to have fun.
"Each Nature Theatre event was a tribal jamboree, an awakening of the inner rock musician trapped within us all and aching to rail on a screaming guitar."
Words and Music © Copyright by their respective authors
These files may be burned to CD-R and freely traded for personal use;
for broadcast/soundtrack rights, contact Gary at garym@teledyn.com