THE ORANGE HUMBLE BAND
THE ALTERNATE ASSORTED CREAMS (1994)
In 1994, Darryl Mather "came out of hivernation" with more than an album's-worth of new songs. He took his songs to old friend Bill Gibson (Lime Spiders, Eastern Dark) and "I said, I think I'm playing as well as i've ever played, I think i've got it right. Let's do some demos together". That was the beginning of The Orange Humble Band's first album, "Assorted Creams". Recordings for "The Alternate Assorted Creams" took place - with Darryl Mather on electric and acoustic guitars, Bill Gibson on bass and vocals, Matt Galvin on lead guitar, Pete Kelly on drums, Anthony Bautovich on lead and backing vocals.
This was the closest The Orange Humble Band ever came to being a "real" band - recorded live in the studio in one day with only some vocal and lead guitar overdubs. Of course, this is way before Mitch Easter and Ken Stringfellow's involvement, much less the orchestrations of the finished album, so these takes are considerably more raw than the final product....VERY raw, in places....and there are four previously unreleased songs that didn't make the cut for the album sessions. If you do remember the story about the Someloves "Something or Other" official White Label mix, then the choice was made to speed up each song by one-or-two-percent, so Darryl had this thing about speeding up tracks in the mastering, and that's obviously been done to these tracks (some more noticeably than others). They've been left as they were on the tape.
Tracklisting follows the final album sequence (the original OHB CD track 14, "Apple Green Slice Cut" was not demo'ed, and therefore not included here) followed by b-sides and unreleased tracks. A very minor glitch on "All Wrapped Up" couldn't be removed from the original tape. I made a custom artwork for an exclusive and really scarce document.
Songs
Fanclub Requiem / Down In Your Dreams / Sleepin' In My Caravan / It Doesn't Matter / Spindizzy / Any Wonder How / Can't Get What You Want #1 / Little Picture Story Book / Katie Said So / Cherrytime / Rainin' Like Soft Fun / Hello Emptiness / Think I'm Gonna Get You / Here We Are (Through Your Veins) / All Wrapped Up / Jet's Gone / Sometimes You Win / This Time For Sure / Sunray / Help Me Make It Thru / Step On The Gas