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MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCENE [live]

from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN by The Ophelias

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Track: 5
Title: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCENE [live performance]
Authorship: Marc Bolan [originally recorded by John’s Children, 1967]
Publishing: Songs of Electric Boogie Music, ASCAP
Recording date: 17 April 1985 + 1 July 1989
Recording place: The G-Spot, 503 Frederick Street, SF + Berkeley Square, 1333 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Square bill was Field Mice / The Ophelias
Cassette recording made on a boombox.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:11
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
[via multiple streaming services]

[first half]
Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar
Sam Babbitt : electric guitar, vocals
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar, vocals
Ruben Chandler : drums

[second half]
Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar, vocals
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar, vocals
Alain Lucchesi : drums

Particulars: Combines an early rehearsal (first half) with a live performance (second half).

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MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCENE

Petals and flowers…
In the park, getting dark, eating the heat.
There’s an eye in the sky, melting your feet.
You see a chick who starts to nick the petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then provoke the Dance of the Hours.
It’s all down to a midsummernight’s scene.
It’s all down to a Shakespearean dream.
In her face there’s a place disfigured with love.
Her hands are white like a night encased in a glove.
She watches you and starts to choke in petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then provoke the Dance of the Hours.
It’s all down to a midsummernight’s scene.
It’s all down to a Shakespearean dream...

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from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN, released May 16, 2021

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