Koffterweid – Wilson In Your Travels
I was going through some boxes of old cassette tapes in my basement this weekend and came across a few un-marked DAT tapes. I was extremely curious to find out what was on the tapes so I dug out and dusted off my DAT machine. One of the tapes was the master of an album I did with the band Koffterweid called ‘Wilson In Your Travels.’
I’ve posted another Koffterweid album before called ‘Without Benefit Of Clergy‘ that was basically a recording project I did with Kristopher Curtis. ‘Wilson In Your Travels’ pre-dates that record by about a year or so and was recorded when Koffterweid was actually a full band.
I haven’t taken the time to rip all of the songs but I thought it might be interesting to at least post a couple of them. This was recorded right here in my basement on a 4-track cassette recorder around 1996 I think. It features Kristopher Curtis on bass and Darren Cuppett on drums who had only been playing drums for a few months at the time. The first song is called ‘We’ll Be Famous’ and ended up being a staple in the set list of The Drew Johnson Band.
The second song is called ‘Enough Son’ and was part of what ended up being a trilogy of songs about my break-up with Angel in November of 1995. The other two songs were ’11/95′ and ‘The Ballad Of War’s End’ from The Drew Johnson Band’s album ‘Invention of the Wheel‘.
If you’re interested in seeing some live footage of this band you can find it here.
Wow- I totally remember both of those songs! Great, great stuff- is it possible I might have had a cassette of those songs that maybe Sam gave me?…
That’s probably the case. There were very few of those cassettes but I’m pretty sure Sam had one of them. You wouldn’t happen to have an even older and stranger collection of songs that I did with titles like Somewhere Near Piedmont, Miss Baggage Claim, Deadpan Boxfan, Son Of Cod, and such…would you? It was probably under the name Gadfly. I’ve been trying to track down those tunes and I can’t find a copy of them anywhere.
It’s possible but if I do, it’s probably in a giant box of unmarked cassettes. If I run across it, I will definitely make sure you get it…
That’s too funny. I just found a DAT that looks like it is either “Without Benefit of Clergy”, or your funny, funny, funny, late-night voice message rant on how fat you thought the bass line sounds in “Six Feet High and Rising”. You played me a little ditty on your sax to show how happy you were…it always makes me laugh so hard!!!
I think that I saw some Gadfly stuff when I was going through my boxes. I’ll keep you posted.
If either one of you happen to come across that stuff I would be forever grateful if I could get a copy. And Kris, I would totally be into hearing that message. I can only imagine what was said…and played.
I checked and I don’t have anything, so you can go ahead and cross me off your list.