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Cigar Shaped Thing

from We Mean It by Dick Smith Band

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Finding old tapes , masters and demos that you thought had vanished is what this is all about !! DSB used to record in our own Teac 4 track setup in Wallasey England , we would do the sessions and pass tapes over to our sound man “Pab” . Luckily Pab stored a few of these tapes in air tight containers for 35+ years .

    We have been going through what we have, again with Pab, and sorting out what is any good and what is not ... this CD is the result

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I saw a flying saucer once..honest ..up in the remote highlands of Scotland in 2005 with my partner she saw it too…thought it was a shooting star high in the western sky but when it stopped and did zig zag movements for a minute or so and then carried on at unbelievable speed into the night..it really was no shooting star….this track is about this very thing but written 25 years before we saw what we saw…recorded on 4 track Teac by Paul Madden…. i wish we could revisit the track all five of us in a proper studio and give it the treatment it deserved..this is after all a very rare demo giving an insight how DSB would sometimes write and this as far as i know is a very early version.. .live this would have been like some uncontrollable alien monster..and probably as was often the case i would have ditched some of the vocal melodies ..let the band take it some place they’d never been with it before and screamed the odd word or two and just enjoy listening to the band…i think PD’s riff on the fade out would have been made into an important part of any live version and i wouldn’t be surprised if someone samples it…and do you know what.. i think that would be great

lyrics

walk along those distant shores
look out towards those vicious seas
birds in flight and silver spheres
birds in flight and silver spheres
what do i fear is it in my mind
shadow ..falling..falling down
cigar shaped thing..metallic spheres
silent..oh so smooth
faster than the wind
red then green then back to red
what do i fear is it in my mind
shadow..falling..falling down
moving closer now so near
shadow falling..only fears
changing faces changing my life
flying saucer taking me away

credits

from We Mean It, released November 22, 2018
Written and arranged by Dick Smith Band
Recorded by Paul Madden in the DSB 4Track Demo studio Wallasey England 1981
Re-mastered by Jim Spencer of EVE Studios Manchester England 2018

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Dick Smith Band Liverpool, UK

Dick smith started spring 1978 in New Brighton England and ended in spring 1982. In that time we did over 600 gigs and released 2 indie singles , the gigs were mainly in the North West of England and Scotland - The indie singles have become rare records and with the interest in the band we decided to release everything we could - check out the website for more info and how we found the tracks ! ... more

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