Impossible Playmates

from Your Favorite Spoon by Tony Castellano

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The original (pretentious) title of this song as it first appeared on The Bud Collins Trio 1988 release 'Kongsoontorncharden' was "Impossible Playmates (in three movements)". This version contains only the 2nd and 3rd movements (the first was re-arranged in rock fashion as "Rifts and Festoons" for the 1998 'Fun-Size' EP). In 1988 we experimented with some extreme 'Beatles-eque" mixing techniques for the final movement (with the drums completely restricted to one channel and the bass restricted to the other), with only limited success (probably because the 4-track cassete recording technology we used at the time was not quite up to the demands of the experiment). This version has a more 'traditional' mix.

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the impossible playmates are sitting in the sandbox having some fun on a september day everything's fine until one grabs a big rock and throws it at a spider to chase it away throws it so hard that it bounces instead hits the other kid hard in the lower jawbone dumps his bucket of sand on the first one's head as their mothers come running to carry them home the impossible playmates are there in the bedroom having a bout about the telephone bill she swears that she just would never call cancun he thinks that she's getting over the hill she thinks that he's had too many martinis and is running around with that blond down the hall he thinks her brain's in a permanent deep-freeze and heads for the alley after grabbing his ball the impossible playmates at the negotiating table trying to make the world a safe place to live white says that it will do all it is able but black just won't take what it's willing to give black says that white's chemical research must go or it will never accept such an outrageous offer white wants those missles taken out of rio as each side gets up and walks away blaming the other

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from Your Favorite Spoon, released January 1, 1999
Chris Weinland: drums and percussion
Pat Guiney: bass guitar, guitar solos
TC: everything else

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Tony Castellano East Hartford, Connecticut

Progressive-rock-influenced multi-instrumentalist and singer who has played with many different bands, including The Bud Collins Trio, Holding Pattern, Ludent Tremmel's Gno, The Realm, and Magnetar, on either bass or bass and keyboards. In recent years he has been playing mostly drums, for several different recording projects and also as a member of his sister's band, Anne Castellano & The Smoke. ... more

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