Finding Abbey Road by Kevin Emerson

Author:Kevin Emerson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Part 3:

Summer

A Voice from Beyond the Grave

—posted by ghostofEliWhite on March 25

This is the sound of your jaw dropping to the floor.

This is the sight of your face melting.

You get my point.

Now get ready.

You may remember last fall when I posted about the fifteen-year anniversary of Allegiance to North’s unfinished last album, Into the Ever & After, released one year after Eli White’s death. You may remember that then, not long after, we broke the bombshell news that Eli had a son, Caleb Daniels, living right under our noses in Mount Hope. You may even remember that Caleb had a band called Dangerheart and a song that referenced his dad called “On My Sleeve.”

Then, just last month, I reported the hot rumor that Dangerheart was about to sign with Candy Shell Records for the kind of son-of-a-rock-legend megadeal that would send us all scrambling to check our genealogy.

But you may also remember that, mysteriously, Candy Shell and Dangerheart parted ways just a few days later.

And then of course, later that very same week came the earth-shattering news, reported by the corporate mouthpieces over at Slick magazine: the lost songs of Eli White had been found. “Exile,” “Encore to an Empty Room,” and “Finding Abbey Road” . . . Eli’s original demos, recorded mere weeks before his apparent suicide, had been discovered, and the remaining members of Allegiance to North would be reuniting to record the songs and release a fully finished version of Into the Ever & After, the masterpiece finally complete, all these years later.

So, all of that was just a little bit amazing. . . .

!!!!

When that news broke, many of you wondered if we would ever get to hear those original demos. Candy Shell recently said that they plan to include one or two as bonus tracks on the record.

But many of you also wondered: How could it be that these tapes remained hidden until now? The spokespeople at Candy Shell said they’d unearthed some old possessions of Eli’s and kapow! There were these tapes. Like, some ex-groupie discovered a lost trunk of smelly flannels, and suddenly one of modern rock’s great mysteries was solved.

Just like that.

Easy.

Or maybe, as many of you have commented, too easy . . .

BECAUSE HOLY NOW THIS:

What you are about to hear cannot be fully explained, and according to the parties involved, won’t be fully explained. In fact, it’s almost more astonishing that way.

The links below connect to videos posted by Dangerheart just minutes ago. There’s no actual footage, just a title that says “Dangerheart: The Family Sessions.” At first, the audio sounds like live acoustic renditions of songs from Dangerheart’s first EP and live sets.

Until you listen closer.

Until you hear the harmonies, the vocal doubling, the personality of some of the guitar playing.

That reedy voice . . .

Friends.

I’m serious.

Just go and listen, and if you don’t make the connection, throw on one of your old Allegiance records, and imagine that same iconic voice, sixteen years later.

And then sit back and enjoy the sound of your head exploding.

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