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In the fall of 2008, I was temporarily living in Burbank and recording, behind the Figure 8 wall mural from that Elliott Smith cover. The studio is gone now, but we were there each day at 10am.
I remember wanting to be a professional - I wanted to make a living playing on other people's records, hired on by great producers who wanted me to come in and just know what the song needed. If you knew how to play in time, and knew what was too much, that was a good way to get hired again. Before then, I was living at home trying to figure out how to write songs, make some money to record them, and not getting much of anywhere. So this was a big deal, to be here playing on this record and finally getting somewhere.
I felt like I was in a dream, to be totally honest. I got up every day and tried to make a good impression with the engineer and producer. Every time they'd hit record, I wanted to give a great take. I felt so confident that this was my ticket to a career in music. I was 22 in 2008, and I must have had some kind of wonderfully naive sense of how my life would go.
Two things I saw in LA stick with me; One was the Church Of Scientology and the other was the diner from American Graffiti. The studio musician career never stuck, but if you walk two blocks down from Mel's you'll see where this song came from.
AK
April 18 2020
lyrics
wearing a hole through my pocket
sun in my eyes laying me flat
spinning a wheel in slow motion
asleep at the gate in the back
sixteen
sixteen stares
float the deck in a teenage daydream
scrape my palm again and again
i never learn when i walk away easy
they never tell just how far it bends
come up to hollywood and selma
come up to 15th n JFK
all your friends are waiting there for ya
none of this lasts as we fade away
sixteen
sixteen stares
credits
from Aidan Knight,
track released May 19, 2020
Aidan Knight • Drums, Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Mixed by Mathieu Parisien
Mastered by Richard Addison
supported by 26 fans who also own “Sixteen Stares”
So glad to found the complete bundle was still available to buy. I couldn't just buy the standalone LP, had to get all the items together to increase my own delight! ♡ One of my favourite records of Sufjan along with Carrie & Lowell and The Greatest Gift. Vinilocioso
Thin Lear's sophisticated rock music is tempered with soaring chamber pop accents and an undeniable gift for melody. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 30, 2020