THERE'S A BELL [live performance, semi-improvisation]

from O LIST! by The Ophelias

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Track: 1
Title: THERE’S A BELL [live performance, semi-improvisation]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 10 January 1988
Recording place: Komotion, 2779 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
The bill was: Zulu Spear / The Looters / The Ophelias
Recorded onto cassette via house mixing board
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 01:53
First appeared on: O List!
Released 4 December 2018
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

Particulars: Medford: "I'll never forget, October 2018, I was driving, Carl Salbacka was shotgun, Terry von Blankers in the back seat. We had just rendezvous'd in Santa Cruz and would be surprising Davy at a Monks of Doom show. In other words Davy didn't know any of us would be there. I hadn't seen Terry in 25 years, David Immerglück in 29 and TvB had just flown in from Costa Rica, so this was a momentous occasion! Carl and I had just that week finished O List! so, as we drove to a restaurant for dinner, I put on O List! for Terry to hear on the car stereo. When this, the first track, ended Terry says, "Way to draw them in, Leslie." total deadpan. Hahahahahahahaha!!!. As Black Jack Davy would say, "That's how we roll." So perfect."

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THERE'S A BELL

There’s a bell at the top of us spiralling down.
There’s a bell on the top of your hill.
There’s a bell by the side of a sound that shines.

Bell top sound shine bell top hill
Bell side sound that shines
Bell on your windowsill.

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from O LIST!, released December 4, 2018

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The Ophelias are a psychedelic rock band formed in San Francisco in 1984.

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