The Sea and Cake: COD/SD etc. etc.

a pitch-perfect prophecy that transitions into a jam with a younger robert wyatt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLDjcPO4L3s

frogs otm, "inn keeping" is maybe my POO s+c jam.

i'm posting here today because there is no proper shrimp boat topic and "what do you think of love" is a monumental jam whose neglect i will stand for no longer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YGj0yD_tho
shrimp boat, as you may know, was sam's pre-sea & cake band. eric claridge had joined the fold by this point. big sigh. sam is dreamy, isn't he?

also more shrimp boat/pre-sea & cake ephemera: has anyone heard the falstaff albums? random fact: the custom leslie speaker employed by andrew bird during live performances -which andrew nicknamed "SPINNEY"- was built for him by ian schneller, formally of falstaff and, prior to that, shrimp boat. that's what he did after his playing in bands days ended: he built amps and speakers and schitt. hero.

I love that Shrimp Boat album the whole Cavale album. Seems a very necessary album for those who love the earliest S&C albums

yeah, definitely! there's a bit of later era stuff on shrimp boat's something grand - https://www.discogs.com/master/300357-Shrimp-Boat-Something-Grand but the last ep (small wonder from 92) is only on the limited edition disc, and subsequently, not on streaming. "here comes your ride" is basically sam getting to the first sea&cake album before he realizes what's happening-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZi_fSr3RzQ
(is that a mandolin towards the end? kinda glad s&c ditched that, even though it sounds okay here!)

for some of the other side of the s&c progenitors, i've been jamming this coctails tune a bit lately-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvGOUwy6Hc
the coctails - "cadali" (1996)

good exposition on what archer brought to the group.

btw no questions this time, archer's a certified dreamboat

oh yeah, here's archer's first band. golly, sure would like to hear that one! maybe some good fodder for we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

that's very nice and I can hear the S and C in there for sure

this is my favorite 'you can hear s&c' coctails jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYQgQtk10To

close second (go stuart moxham!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BeEAKwqn5c