{"id":1254,"date":"2023-09-06T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:32:15","slug":"gold-cadillac-west-kensington-dreams-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2023\/09\/06\/gold-cadillac-west-kensington-dreams-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Cadillac &#8211; West Kensington Dreams 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1255\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the mid 1980s I recorded a lot on fostex X-15 4-track with one broken channel so effectively 3 Track. I have never been able to use those tapes since Fostex finally broke about 10 years ago. Today I found a way of re-recording two of the three tracks which frankly most of what I recorded anyway. I literally did not remember making this tape at all. The only change before I upload to bandcamp is the original title Pillbox Moon which was an arbitrary title at time. So May 1994\u2026recorded in a small loft flat in Barons Court London I guess. Recorded after meeting a Spanish girl and before disappearing to Edinburgh. Post indie dreams americana ..short stories rather than songs really\u2026striking how literary..even has the ghost of Raymond Carver making an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Listening I can hear the ghost of the Go-Betweens too. I remember seeing Robert Forster solo whilst making this\u2026..in fact it was 14th August 1993 at the Orange, Kensington. (internet provided that not memory). I also had been to see a gig at The Weavers featuring Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock and met the owner of Roundtower records who sent me some Tom \u00a0Russell cds.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to play the two unpanned fostex tracks into a TOA mixer\/tape recorder which enabled me to pan the material properly as intended. Any three track recordings are lost but honestly I probably never used the third channel much ( 4 being kaput). My belated thanks to Tim Brown of the Poetry Library where I had worked and who gave me the original slightly knackered Fostex. It took me a long time to break it ;-).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=592%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C823&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C617&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1234&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1645&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fostex-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1256\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/caddy.png?resize=597%2C556&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/caddy.png?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/caddy.png?resize=300%2C279&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=41563675\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the mid 1980s I recorded a lot on fostex X-15 4-track with one broken channel so effectively 3 Track. I have never been able to use those tapes since Fostex finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cassette-tape","category-recordings","category-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CADILLAC1400.png?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DCHF-ke","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}