Could it be Spider’s brother? The whole house looked like it was going to fall apart. Still beautiful, according to Anita. I had done so several times before in Canada and the US, and they had all heard the name only because the album had some market value, but none of them had taken the trouble to pay attention to its content.
Met Spider on a weekend while I was staying at his parent’s home in Canton.I really enjoyed reading about your meeting with Spider and Anita.
It was easy to see the disappointment and bitterness in Anita’s eyes when she told me about all the demos he had made and the attempts to sell them to the companies.
He had been a teacher in Brooklyn. Then we went upstairs, where he lived, and showed me the kitchen, the living room, the bedrooms. And he started playing with a friend, ET, a guitarist. What Then my life took me very far away from that scene, from all the great music, famous and obscure alike. Enable Code (Must Be On) F0100008 004134C7; Infinite Health: 2036E964 3C0142C8 Chrysalis sparkled.
I had the feeling I was bringing them a little light after a long time…Then I heard some newer songs Spider wrote.
Savage Skies is an unrelenting adventure that will take you to fantasy realms far beyond your imagination. From the Association to the Zombies, from Eli & the 13th to Astral Weeks, from the Sounds of Silence to — well, Chrysalis. The tragedies of the band – bassist Paul Album and guitarist Jon Sabin died.
I sat through two shows and he was very funny. This is a reconnaissance mission, though. Make sure you complete every objective. But no one was home. I realized that this house hadn’t seen any visitors, or light, for a very long time. Excitedly, I knocked on the door of that legendary basement. Wish I could hear it again, but after many years of reviewing records and songwriting, I don’t have it to listen to. Whereas the wimpy Virtwyn waited until the final moment to attack their enemies, the Chrysalis are pro-active, getting things done and working toward making progress in the war.
And they would play this music, the two of them, sometimes with friends. Master your steed and the empire is yours for the taking! They’re as good as those of Chrysalis.
His talent was widely praised, his personality widely scorned. If you want, you can write to him (mention the connection with me):I, of course, never wrote Spider. Root’s Garden’ were actually staples on Philadelphia underground FM radio in the late 60s…That was a golden age for American music.Spider and Anita were friends of mine when I lived in Saugerties in the 90’s. Then they split. Including pretty much the entire Chrysalis album. Paul was very young, about 27, when one night coming back from his new group, a drunk truck driver hit him.
Ever since, I’ve always dreamt about getting another piece of information about them, just a little something more, somehow to put together the pieces of the puzzle and to get the whole picture.
OD came home, ET continued travelling around America on his own, guitar slung over his shoulder.We’ll turn the microphone over to ET now to continue the narrative, via a letter he wrote to me in 1996 (my translation from Hebrew):…A few days ago I went to Woodstock. There’s been a lot of talk recently about the sad and curious career of Alex Chilton and his band Big Star. The Chrysalis appear to be getting a head start on their assaults (a good sign). The curve which approaches the line but never intersects with it.
Nancy Nairn is a Marine Biologist, living in Florida. The Mediterranean rhythms were the idea of Shaar and Kotkov. SoTW: Chrysalis, Summer in Your Savage Eyes There’s been a lot of talk recently about the sad and curious career of Alex Chilton and his band Big Star. We lost Mike Dunn early in 2013 – a great bass player and friend for 30 years – but the album speaks for itself and barely scratches the surface of a writer whom I consider to be, if on the best, one of the best alive in the world today.We could arrange to make that happen.
His company worked out of the basement, and he showed me where the recording equipment had been when The Band made the Basement Tapes with Dylan.