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MF63 - Paint A Picture / I'll Be Your Mirror

by Mark C. Morris & Friends

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audfilm This cover of I'll Be Your Mirror has haunted and thrilled me for years. I still know where my original MCM cassette is, but its great to have it to stream whenever I NEED to hear it. Favorite track: I'll Be Your Mirror (Reed).
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Paint A Picture 01:11
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I'll Be Your Mirror (Reed) 02:02
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Mark C. Morris Archive release #10 in the ongoing project to issue the Mark C. Morris and Henry C. Cobb Jr. archive. All proceeds will be donated to Save The Children.

This is the only thing deliberately put to tape by Mark's original live ensemble - a band put together not for the purpose of recording, but with the express purpose of showcasing the songwriting of 90s Ottumwa subunderground song makers Mark Morris, sulkfly, Greg Peterson, Henry C. Cobb Jr., and Creeping Charlie. The group went by various names, including Mad Dash For The Cake, and had several different iterations. The most realized version of the band consisted of Mark Morris, Mark Langgin, Greg Peterson, and Mike Hoff, with Theresa Rankin from the Omaha scene on keys and singing.

When Squirrel Energy Now! head honcho Adam invited us to play at their showcase in Iowa City he named us with multiple different iterations of "Mad Dash ____ ____ ____" depending on multiple flyer designs made for the show. So our name (Mad Dash From The Cave, Mad Dash For Soggy, etc.) was given to us via the flyer for our first show at Gabe's. In a crass/conceptual interview given to an I.C. culture rag later on, I state that "it's good to have lots of different names" and "it's important that we don't have a name" within the same interview, and go on to suggest that we have "a show sometime where the audience wrote all the songs." ~ Mike

Mark's recollections:
1. I've always hated the name of the band.
2. I loved playing at Coffee Cellars. I remember a good crowd reaction and forgetting the words to "Song Before Bed" and improvising. Mike was giving me a funny look as I made up the words and I felt really good about the whole thing.
3. I was happy getting to know Mark L. better.

Mark Langgin's recollections:
The show at the Coffee Cellars in Iowa City still ranks as one of my favorite live performances ever. I remember the crowd realizing how quiet we were and everyone sat on the floor. There were soft lights throughout the space and it was a hushed crowd.

Press:
Jonathan Hansen from the The Daily Iowan stated that "Mad Dash effectively charmed their audience, which sat on the floor in a semicircle around the band and was invited to sing and play along [at the Coffee Cellars (site of the former and present Yacht Club) performance]. "It seems kind of like sitting around a campfire. That's the kind of atmosphere," said Peterson. "Their quirky songs are played on instruments not common to most folk or rock groups: violin, xylophone, a Playskool telephone, and a percussion section consisting of various pots and pans" (Hansen).

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released February 4, 2022

Painting by Mark Morris: "Self Portrait In Red Shirt". Paint on canvas, circa 80s or early 90s.

Tracks:
I'll Be Your Mirror: Written by Lou Reed, as arranged by VU.
Paint A Picture: Poem: Mark., Improvisation: Hoff, Langgin, Peterson

Personnel:
Mark C. Morris poems, songwriting, singing
Greg Peterson - guitar, violin
Mike Hoff - homemade acoustic bass, singing
Mark Langgin - table top junk percussion

Recorded live with minimal overdubs to Tascam Porta07 in Mike's basement in Ottumwa, IA on July 11th, 1995.

Mastered for digital by Mike Hoff on January, 2022 in Evanston.

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