Hands of Time

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HANDS OF TIME
 

In June 1979the Corvairs recorded a demo consisting of five original songs, including a Phil Gammage song, Hands of Time.  A CD released in 2000 includes this music; called Denver Sessions ’79, it is still available from PreFab International Recordings.  Also that summer, the Corvairs played two shows at the Blue Note club, one of them opening for the Cleveland band Pere Ubu

 

After several dates on the West Coast, with two New Yorkers in the line-up the Corvairs moved East, where they stayed together for nearly a decade.  Over that period of time, Miles Syken left the band before their main recording period, and Martin Blazy joined as the drummer in 1986.  The Corvairs released two EP’s – Temple Fire (1983), which included “Hands of Time”; and Sad Hotel (1985) – and two LP’s – Rio Blanco (1987) and Hitchhiker (1989 – France only).  A planned 22-song retrospective called Unsafe at Any Speed – also the title of Ralph Nader’s famed book Unsafe at Any Speed on the ill-fated Chevrolet car – was to have come out in 2006 on PreFab International Recordings but has not yet been released. 

 

(March 2015)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021