OL' VIC [live]

from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN by The Ophelias

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Track: 7
Title: OL’ VIC [live performance]
Authorship: Ray Davies
Publishing: ABKCO Music Inc., ASCAP / Unichappell Music Inc., ASCAP
Recording date: 19 December 1987
Recording place: 2315 Dwight Way, Barrington Hall, Berkeley, CA
Rehearsal cassette, recorded using a boombox.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 00:53
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
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Leslie Medford : acoustic guitar, vocal
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

Particulars: Fragment. Medford: "During his first ever (and semi-public*) rehearsal Immerglück suggested this favorite of Medford's [“Victoria” by The Kinks, 1969] and we ventured; unfortunately, the cassette tape ran out. I cannot recall The Ophelias ever rehearsing it or playing it live other than here."

*This "semi-public" is explained in detail in the essay by Medford which comes with this album upon purchase.

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OL' VIC

Long ago life was clean.
Sex was bad, called obscene.
And the rich were so mean.
Stately homes for the lords.
Croquet lawns, village greens,
Victoria was my Queen...

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from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN, released May 16, 2021

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