Dave Sinclair ... The Lost Interview | Nigel Blows A Tune: Composing Caravan's Nine Feet Underground
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Dave Sinclair ... The Lost Interview; is a 2022 documentary mini-series. Produced for non-profit media, episodes to be released periodically are heavily built upon unreleased audio sessions recorded by Dave in 2021.
In this video, Dave talks about living in the flat below Tony Coe's Lexington House. From his solitude away from the band still living at Stodmarsh Road, a chord inspiration from cousin Nigel Blow led to composing sections of music that would be joined to form the epic suite, Nine Feet Underground.
This episode is in recognition and dedicated to the memory of Nigel Blow 1953-2011.
Director and Producer: Nic Sinclair
Associate Producer: Dave Sinclair
Original interview questions written by Jon Kirkman
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Attributions:
Nine Feet Underground: Nigel Blows A Tune (First Version) - Deram 1971. (All rights reserved. Fair use by artist)
Decca Records (Fair use by artist. Non profit media)
Nicholas Sinclair (All rights reserved)
Dave Sinclair (All rights reserved)
Future Publishing (All rights reserved. Fair use by artist. Non profit media)
Paul De Wildt (Fair use by artist)
Karl-Heinz Müller/WDR (All rights reserved. Fair use by artist. Non profit media)
Fascinating to hear how this song evolved. Love that album!😍
As a native born Philadelphian, the Eagles sweatshirt really caught my eye. I'm listening to The Land of Grey and Pink as I write this, and could listen to it daily for the duration.
I still remember the first time I heard Nine Feet Underground. I’d never heard of Caravan and was basically a blues-rock fanatic with the exception of some Floyd and Tull. My college roommate put side 2 of Grey and Pink on the turntable, and I was absolutely floored. I literally couldn’t stop smiling. Been a massive fan ever since that moment 40+ years ago
1970 earliest recollection Live Caravan in London. Hooked since
Love this series of interviews! Thank you, Dave, for sharing these wonderful personal insights!
My first listen was probably in Baker’s Record Shop in The Longmarket , Canterbury, early 70’s.
In those days you could select a record and the staff would play as much as you liked via a loudspeaker in a small open fronted booth.
So depending on how busy the shop was it was possible to be able to listen to both sides of an LP, and with no obligation to buy it !
Needless to say I did buy this iconic album
There was a Bakers Record shop in Sheerness. I was a bit snooty because I loved King Crimson, But I eventually came to love Caravan via Hatfield and the North. Nine feet under ground is a regular on my turntable.
I had the opportunity to see that music live here in Rio de Janeiro- Brazil... When Caravan finished everybody agreed that it was the best version of the music we ever heard in our entired lives!!!
Amazing thank you Dave ❤️
Thank you for watching
I'm wondering what is grandma's lawn about
It's a reference to the memories of the garden when Dave visited his (and Richard's) Grandma Gertie Sinclair, but otherwise a lyrical endeavour that doesn't mean too much :-)
@@DaveSinclairMusic2 ohh, thank very much. But I thought it's not that simple because lyrics are kinda surreal.
And what is Cecil Rons about?
And how is that Cecil Rons and Albert Gott?
@@CuLozus Cecil Rons is Pye's track and was a play on the maiden name of his wife Cathy Ross. I believe the Rons reference goes back to a letter that Cathy wrote to Hugh Hopper, offering the Wilde Flowers a gig at Folkestone. Her signature looked more like Rons, than it did Ross and so the joke was born. Pye wrote the song after the inspiration, which he once referred to in interview as nonsense. In reference to Albert Gott, and one's gut I can only spare thought!
@@DaveSinclairMusic2 Hahaha, sound nice, now I know the story behind it. You had fun with it. But I still don't understand Albert Gott reference sadly.
But I have some more questions :)
Why Frozen Rose was not released in simple album, and why "It's likely to have a name next week" beginning melody sound so familiar?
@@CuLozus Frozen Rose was quite some work (as had Richard's other tracks), but was finished with Dave assisting Richard with the arrangement. What happened was that when Dave brought all the melodies that make up Nine Feet Underground to the band and David Hitchcock, the band worked on them individually, then David pieced them altogether. The resulting epic at 22 minutes was agreed to take up the whole side B of the album. With Winter Wine such a strong brother of a song to Frozen Rose, sadly the song didn't make the cut. It was a legend for years, with Richard Sinclair mentioning it as the lost Grey and Pink track. The tape was eventually found and incredibly we now can hear this gem as intended. There has been much debate whether Pye's track Love To Love You truly belonged on the album and Frozen Rose should have had its place. David Hitchcock however pushed Love to Love You as a single with Golf Girl as the B-side.