Hector (The Collector)
This is a lament to collecting stuff (especially souvenirs from events you were actually at) and a small homage to a favourite kids programme of my childhood, "Hector's House"
We rarely if ever got to see inside Hector's House, but if he was a 'Hector the Collector', as I was up until the time I wrote this tune, it would have been stacked to the brim with records, tapes, cd's, video's, magazine's, football programmes and all the rest of the stuff some deranged people tend to collect!
Writing this tune helped me purge most of my "Hectorism", I sold all my vinyl to a second hand record store at about this time. I remember leaving the shop with £90 cash and feeling pretty chuffed (who knows how much I'd actually spent on all the shite in the first place!!) but then promptly backed my car into a lampost in the car park. I drove home to call the company about the repair (it was a company car) but then left my house keys inside the house whilst we went off to the flix to see a movie. Of course, on arriving home later we were locked out and had to call out a lock-smith to get us back in. Guess how much he charged me? Yep, exactly £90!
Anyway, I'm glad I don't have all that stuff anymore, now I mostly just collect happy memories... and sometimes plug back into 'The Matrix' to watch Man Utd collect trophies!!
(Tuscan Raiders studio version with my vocal)
Listen to the 'Spontin' version from 2003
(Hynesie bass & backing vox, Scotty guitar & backing vox, Neil : Diplock RIP drums)
Listen to a Tuscan Raiders live version - Live at Ipswich Music Day, July 2005
(Tuscan Raiders: I'm on lead guitar & backing vox, Hynesie bass & backing vox, Scotty rhythm guitar, Al lead vocals and Erbish drums)
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