Red Green And You Blue

I have dreams of summer skies,

Close my eyes and think of things that make me glad,

Don't see why I should be sad,

Every day, yeah,

Watch the sun turn red and green,

All I've seen is you.

 

And I'm sitting in my room,

Find a tune and make believe I'm on a star,

Got to find out where you are,

Why you stay,

Why you play your soft guitar from so far away.

 

I watch every sunrise,

Hear the music change a page,

Hear the whispers on the stage,

I'm just watching from my cage.

 

Every evening finds its wings,

Pretty things sound,

Dancing sounds of summer rain,

Takes me off the ground again.

Makes me high,

Don't have time to sit around,

Might come down to you.

I watch every sunrise,

Hear the music change a page,

Hear the whispers on the stage,

I'm just watching from my cage.

 

I watch every sunrise,

Hear the music change a page,

Hear the whispers on the stage,

I'm just watching from my cage.

Kevin Ayers And The Whole World: Red Green and You Blue 

(From Shooting At The Moon) (link)

Feat. K. Ayers, guitar & vocal; M. Oldfield, bass; L. Coxhill, sax; D. Bedford, keyboards; M. Fincher, drums.  What a song this is and has always been!  Crowning achievement (?) on an astonishing album. "We are as free as birds. Only the birds aren't free.  We are as committed as birds, and identically." -- John Cage, A Year From Monday

Everything Crash (2) -- Leonard Dillon (The Ethiopian) and David Bedford

The Ethiopians -- Everything Crash (Link)

David Bedford (pictured with Mike Oldfield) and featured on:

Kevin Ayers And The Whole World -- Shooting At The Moon (Link)

We mourn the passing this week of Leonard Dillon and David Bedford, gifted artists who added so much pleasure to so many people's lives.   

Everything Crash is my favorite Ethiopians record.  It really makes its case and, for me, puts it all into perspective.  (Or, as that wonderful line in Spinal Tap puts it, "a little too much perspective.")

David Bedford accomplished so much as a musician, composer,  teacher, and also through his leadership at the Performing Rights Society in the UK.  For me his crucial work will always be as a member of Kevin Ayers and The Whole World on Shooting At The Moon, perhaps the most imaginative, innovative and poetic record of the rock era.  The collaboration of Ayers, Bedford, Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill and Mick Fincher remains like the loudest thunderclap, the most massively visible, but still fugitive, cloud scudding across the sky, and the rippling, concentric pond rings after the falling stone.  No one ever made a record like that before.  No one has done so since.