Walking With Jesus, by Spacemen 3.
The first time I heard Spacemen 3, I was in a record store… somewhere. I can picture the place with some precision, but I have no idea where in the world it was. It wasn’t Amoeba in San Francisco. It’s possible it was Princeton Record Exchange? Ooh, looking at pictures and thinking about the timeline when I know I was there in junior year of college working on a movie, yeahhhh, it must’ve been there.*
The first Spacemen 3 record I bought was called Dreamweapon and was mostly two long epic drone pieces, and it was wonderful. Sometime later I ended up with things like Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To on vinyl, and heard this song — listed now as Sound of Confusion.
Didn’t have a chance to layer on some electric guitar, but that’s what it needs. Also didn’t listen to the song before recording, which seems like a fun game. It’s only two chords, so my memory of the melody is not too far off.
*That can’t be right, because I already had a different Spacemen 3 album around sophomore year that I used in the closing credits of a video project, so… where did I hear Dreamweapon? Oh, wow, was this a Miami-summer-after-freshman-year thing? That’s when friends got me into Stereolab, The Sea And Cake, and this would have been a logical extension of that at the time… We made a few trips to this one used CD spot but heck if I can remember where.