Happy Rhodes - Ecto - 01 - "I'm Going Back" (1987)

AUDIO ONLY. Happy Rhodes - Ecto - 01 - "I'm Going Back" (1987)

Scroll down for full liner notes.

Shown is the cover and spine of the Ecto cassette, now out-of-print. Those cassettes were hand-made by Happy Rhodes and Kevin Bartlett. Ok, they didn't forge the plastic or make the paper, but when they got an order they would dub each cassette individually, and put together the cassette insert themselves. They did this with each of the first four albums ("1st4") until they were all re-released on CD in 1992.

The picture on each cassette is an actual photograph of a painting by Happy, cut and pasted onto a cassette insert. That's true of Rhodes I, Rhodes II and Ecto. Rearmament has a blurry photograph of Happy's eyes, but again, a copy of the photograph was cut and pasted onto each cassette. The track listing was often hand-typed too.

As far as I know, Happy still owns the original Ecto painting.

Monsters were Happy's friends growing up, and she still loves them.

Lyrics:

I'm Going Back

Where are my monsters and cats?
Where are my attic antiques and bats?

I'm going back, I'm going back, I'm going back
I'm going back, I'm going back, I'm going back
I'm going back, I'm going back, I'm going back

No life here, in the room where I sleep
It's traveled ahead to my stony keep

I'm going back to the rain on the trees
I'm going back to my kitty on the window
I'm going back
I'm going back to the strings of the Guild
I'm going back to my heart's desire
I'm going back

Where are my brothers, mother and dad?
I had a family and friends

I'm going back to the rain on the trees
I'm going back to my kitty on the window
I'm going back
I'm going back to the strings of the Guild
I'm going back to my heart's desire
I'm going back

I'm going back to the rain on the trees
I'm going back to my kitty on the window
I'm going back
I'm going back to the strings of the Guild
I'm going back to my very sweet love
I'm going back

Song © 1987 - Happy Rhodes
Music, lyrics, voices, instruments and arrangements - Happy Rhodes

1987 tape US Aural Gratification AGC 0013 13 tracks, 60 minutes
1992 CD US Aural Gratification AGCD0013 15 tracks, 68:46 minutes

Ecto liner notes:

Produced by Pat Tessitore and Happy Rhodes

Recorded and Mixed by Pat Tessitore at Cathedral Sound Studios

Digital Mastering performed by Dr. Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital Recording

This album is a compilation of songs recorded between the years of 1984 and 1987

All songs written, arranged and performed by Happy Rhodes

Thanks to Kevin Bartlett, Pat Tessitore, Bill DeMichele, Dave Sepowski, Mum and
always to the Ectophiles.

© 1987, 1988 & 1992 Happy Rhodes
All songs BMI
All songs published by Hovering Slab Music (BMI)
(P) © 1987, 1988 & 1992 Aural Gratification.

All rights reserved.

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