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May 9, 2007
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The Phoenix - Trev and the Collective Unconscious

This song began in 1986 on Teesside with one of my band - Steve Ingledew showing me some keyboard chords in a

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flattened key. I worked these in with another sequence I had that became the chorus. Another band member of Trev and the Collective Unconscious - Steve Gillgallon helped formulate the bridge. We needed some words and a title. My mother had sent me a copy of the Coventry Evening Telegraph with articles on the bombing of Coventry with memories of what it was like in air raid shelters in the centre of Coventry as the bombs were dropping all around. From 7 pm at night until the morning the bombs dropped. The scariest moments were in the early hours of the morning when they started dive bombing the city. This formed the theme for the piece and the words. The words were never finished or added although I performed it a few times at poetry.

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The music features Trev on Keyboards (chords) and analog synth; Steve Gillgallon keyboards and bass guitar and Steve Ingledew on keyboards. Recorded on a a Fostex X 15 - I like the piece as an instrumental and it appears on my My Space. The words were never completed - I became heavily involved at this stage developing the Cleveland liteary and creative writing scene and my own music took a backseat for a long while.The bombing operation was caled Operation Moonlight Sonata and we tried to allude to it in the melody at one point but were unable to make it work efffectively. I put the keyboard drums through a flanger and also the analog synth to give a war plane effect and we panned the synth to give the impression of dive bombing.

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