Last Vestiges of Honor

Description

Last Vestiges of Honor is a compilation album by the American singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and producer Charlie Peacock, independently released by Peacock in 1999 as a part of his CP Collector Series. The various tracks featured on Last Vestiges of Honor were originally recorded by The Charlie Peacock Group in 1982, with two of the songs – “No Magazines” and “What They Like” – released as a 12-inch single in California in 1982 by the Sacramento based label VAVAVA (and as well released in Japan). The two tracks featured on the vinyl single were recorded March 1982 by Stephen Holsapple at Moon Studios in Sacramento, California; with Charlie Peacock and Holsapple producing. Mixed by Peacock and Holsapple.

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CD-EP tracklist:

01. Early Detection – 2:10
02. No Magazines – 4:10
03. I’ve Heard Enough – 3:11
04. Shirley – 4:21
05. The Quality of Life – 2:13
06. What They Like – 5:29
07. Motion Sickness – 2:25

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A short film created by Stephen Dean Holsapple commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Charlie Peacock Group, featuring Jimmy Caselli, Mark Herzig, Darius Babadadeh, and the late bassist, Erik Kleven (1981-2021). December 10th, 2021 seven recorded songs will be rereleased and available everywhere as Charlie Peacock, Last Vestiges of Honor.

A note from Charlie Peacock:

We played original material and a few covers we enjoyed, such as Talking Heads’ «Cities» and an English Beat-inspired version of Smokey Robinson’s «Mickey’s Monkey». The calendar was full of our own bookings in San Francisco, Berkeley, Davis, Tahoe, and Sacramento. As well as opening slots with Danny Elfman’s quirky ensemble Oingo Boingo, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, Pablo Cruise, English organist Brian Auger, and bassist Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane fame, fronting his new band, SVT. Bass players will recognize the letters SVT as the hallowed Ampeg SVT bass amplifier.

Recording live at Moon Studios in south Sacramento with Steve engineering led to seven finished songs and the 12” 45rpm single, «No Magazines» b/w «What They Like». Our friend Jeff Viducich arranged for Tower Records to carry the single in the California stores and Japan. Seeing the single in the Japanese version of Tower literature was a thrill. Not exactly big in Japan, yet in Japan nonetheless.

Despite the likable covers, our music was decidedly the least commercial of any I’d ever attempted (apart from my jazz compositions). As I referenced earlier, imagine Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic period, mashed with 80s King Crimson, along with my New Wave-ish vocals, and you’ll have some sense of what we were up to. We also mixed time signatures. Drums playing 4/4, the rest of the band in 7/4 – that sort of thing. Many of the lyrics concerned my newly acquired sobriety and reinvigorated spiritual curiosity.