carla bley, “Doctor why”
From: escaLAtor over the hill, 1971
“JACK:
Clear
Vacancy
Clear
Everything’s all right
Clear
Everything’s just fine
The doctor is here
And they’re getting
The head back in
Ginger:
Nurses dyeing their hair
Don’t care
If the horse is locked
The house still there
It doesn’t seem
To matter to them
The traces
Of horses
Ginger and jack:
And pineapple
And cheese
So many ingredients
In the soup
(On the hardwood floor)
No room for a spoon”
Linda Rondstadt and Cream’s Jack Bruce in a short spiffy spot from one of the great music projects of any time. The high minded concept lp “Escalator Over the Hill”.
““No protest, no social commentary. No expression of love, of grief, of hope, of despair. It is literally whatever you want to make of it. It is devoid of every quality which you might assume would qualify it to be the greatest of all records. And yet it is that tabula rasa in its heart, the blank space which may well exist at the very heart of all music, revealing the hard truth that we have to fill in the blanks, we have to interpret what is being played and sung, and our interpretation is the only one which can possibly be valid, as we cannot discern any perspective other than our own.””