Movement #16: The Crazy Man Speaks

After 15 podcasts, I realized it was time. I decided to do a podcast of all original material (more or less) from my college band Syd Satellite, not only to expose people to the music but also to have a mini-rockumentary of some of the music to pass down to all the generations who might be interested and for my own archives. I am living proof that there will always be someone interested in that which is old and discarded so I do this for the poor saps like me.

This will be in two parts. Part one will be all the early material recorded prior to us really playing live or perfecting our sound and the second part will be after I got to Auburn and we got down to business and started playing some crazy live shows. And let me tell you, there were some crazy live shows.

This first podcast encompasses the years from 1994 to 1995. The next show will be material from 1996 to 1997 culminating in our final live show which was July 4th, 1997.

The band was heavily influenced by Pink Floyd (we had just discovered and become obsessed with Piper at the Gates of Dawn) and looking back on it I must have started listening to The Doors because there was a lot of spoken word in the earlier albums. Now that I think about it I listened to a lot of Doors in high school so that must have been it.

My favorite album from this time was A Crazy Man Once Told Me, which was a concept album we did. I have since written more of it and made it more coherent so I'll post that as a text blog entry at some point.

So, enjoy some of my music and your comments are always welcome. Even though it was recorded in the mid 90's it still has a timeless quality about it, which is good. Also, listen for the eunuch-like scream on the last song of the Crazy Man album. I'm still proud of that one, sort of. The recording quality of this varies from good to bad to terrible so I apologize for that as well. Keep in mind these were our first recordings so we were still perfecting sounds and techniques and talents.

Special thanks go out to Greg, without whom none of this would have been possible.

Title: A Crazy Man Speaks
Artist: Syd Satellite
Date: 1994 and 1995 
Venue: Birmingham
The Band: Bradley Morgan, Greg Slamen, Karsten Propper 

Tracks:

From A Crazy Man Once Told Me (1994):
A Crazy Man Once Told Me, Part I (The Beginning)
Atmos Phere
A Crazy Man Once Told Me, Part II
Breakfast
A Crazy Man Once Told Me, Part III (City of Depression)
Leigh Anne
Today
A Crazy Man Once Told Me, Part IV (A Sweet Revolution Song)
Nice
Breakdown
A Crazy Man Once Told Me, Part V

From Another Roll (1994):
Flagellation in A
High
Seychells

From Live at The Rockin' Horse (1995)
Green is the Colour (sorry, Dave)
Morphine Dreams
Seychells
Sunlight Flows Softly