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GOING TO SANTA CRUZ

from BEST OF NOISE by LIK ROPER

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This entire CD is essentially dedicated to Santa Cruz, California. One day I saw a waitress friend of mine named Jen jumping into her truck and going to the beach, and this is what first got me seriously thinking about going to Santa Cruz once again…

I have often thought about going back to Santa Cruz since the 1989 earthquake kind of scared me away, but the traffic being generated by the 1990s boom in Silicon Valley made me shy away from visiting.

And while I have been a relatively fearless distribution driver for over 30 years now, after my brother died in a head on collision, i decided to stay away from dangerous mountain roads for awhile. That is; until one night when a friend called me up from the Santa Cruz Beachboardwalk concert; and said something like “Eddie Money is playing now – the whole beach is packed full of chicks!”...and that did it -- I was not only going to Santa Cruz the next weekend to see Rare Earth play -- but I went to every free concert all summer long that year.

I then got an idea to bring my panasonic digital VOR over to Santa Cruz to record various organic sounds; a train going by at murray and Seabright streets; some waves breaking out by the lighthouse at Aldo’s; a bird who was chirping on Aldo’s mini-pier; and sea lions out on the wharf. After burning many tracks onto CDR, the smoothest one of all was a track in which i ran the entire bunch of sounds through a country guitar effect during mixdown, so this is the CDR track i used on ‘Going to Santa Cruz’…

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from BEST OF NOISE, released January 1, 2004

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