1985 Just Another Girl
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1985 Just Another Girl by Mark Fielding Darden
Written by Mark Fielding Darden/ Raleigh, NC/ 1985
Copyright #PAu 845-034; May 16, 1986
Recorded at the Choke Monkey Lounge. I wrote a lot of songs about girls... but this girl was special. And she really did purr... The Choke Monkey Lounge was my little playroom and recording studio that I built in a garage next to the house I was renting on Cutler Street in Boylan Heights, Raleigh NC. Milton and I had been a musical unit since the mid-seventies but we could never quite find the right combination of players. We both played guitar. But Milton also played bass very well, and my first instrument was drums, which I still loved to play.
One night around midnight, while Milton and I were jamming in the studio, we heard a knock at the door. The neighborhood was a bit “iffy” at that time of night so I was always somewhat apprehensive about opening the three doors to the outside. I took a chance and opened the doors. Standing there was a guy that looked like Donnie Osmond… and he had a guitar in his hand. He said he lived next door with his wife, having moved from Texas a few months earlier, and that he could hear us playing all the time… and wanted to join us.
Well, you never know about “walk-in guitarists at midnight” but Milton and I were stoned so we let him in. He had a great smile and looked harmless enough, or so I thought. Little did I know what was about to happen:
He plugged in, broke out that smile, and never missed a fucking note. Milton immediately resigned himself to bass, as I did to drums… and overnight we became The Boat Rockers, one of the best bands to ever grace the Raleigh NC scene. His awesome wife, Pattie, took over the “advertising, and gig-finding” and off we went. This was years before digital recording came out, much less the internet. All the Boat Rocker songs were recorded on tape, most of them in the Choke Monkey Lounge on a Sony Teac four track, reel-to-real tape recorder.
We recorded many, many originals. This was one of the very, very best. Oh, how I miss those days and those guys.
The Boat Rockers:
Milton Gore: bass
Mike Haskins: guitar
Fielding Darden: drums, vocals, song, video
Written by Mark Fielding Darden/ Raleigh, NC/ 1985
Copyright #PAu 845-034; May 16, 1986
Recorded at the Choke Monkey Lounge. I wrote a lot of songs about girls... but this girl was special. And she really did purr... The Choke Monkey Lounge was my little playroom and recording studio that I built in a garage next to the house I was renting on Cutler Street in Boylan Heights, Raleigh NC. Milton and I had been a musical unit since the mid-seventies but we could never quite find the right combination of players. We both played guitar. But Milton also played bass very well, and my first instrument was drums, which I still loved to play.
One night around midnight, while Milton and I were jamming in the studio, we heard a knock at the door. The neighborhood was a bit “iffy” at that time of night so I was always somewhat apprehensive about opening the three doors to the outside. I took a chance and opened the doors. Standing there was a guy that looked like Donnie Osmond… and he had a guitar in his hand. He said he lived next door with his wife, having moved from Texas a few months earlier, and that he could hear us playing all the time… and wanted to join us.
Well, you never know about “walk-in guitarists at midnight” but Milton and I were stoned so we let him in. He had a great smile and looked harmless enough, or so I thought. Little did I know what was about to happen:
He plugged in, broke out that smile, and never missed a fucking note. Milton immediately resigned himself to bass, as I did to drums… and overnight we became The Boat Rockers, one of the best bands to ever grace the Raleigh NC scene. His awesome wife, Pattie, took over the “advertising, and gig-finding” and off we went. This was years before digital recording came out, much less the internet. All the Boat Rocker songs were recorded on tape, most of them in the Choke Monkey Lounge on a Sony Teac four track, reel-to-real tape recorder.
We recorded many, many originals. This was one of the very, very best. Oh, how I miss those days and those guys.
The Boat Rockers:
Milton Gore: bass
Mike Haskins: guitar
Fielding Darden: drums, vocals, song, video