Remembering Cat

Catherine Lynch Livingston left us on September 22, 2015. She was a wonderful, sly spirit, full of pranks and grace, who drew on a seemingly bottomless well of creativity and kindness. All of us who loved her are as deflated by her passing as we were elevated by her presence.

After talking about the idea for quite some time, Cat and I set up this music blog in February 2015. She finally felt physically up to tackling the project and was excited to digitize and organize her back catalogue, and reconnect with musical friends.

So click the links at right to tune into the varied sonic Worlds of Cat. And if you have memories to share, just comment below.

- Kim Cooper, Los Angeles, 9/25/15

Tuesday Weld Experience

In 1986 I played music once with Cliff Neighbors of Big City Orchestra in Santa Cruz, California. We recorded the session and here is one of the tracks we came up with. I call it "Death of The Shorebords". "The Tuesday Weld Experience" was the name for the cassette of our music. The name was inspired by a paranoid schizophenic guy I knew who thought that Tuesday Weld was somehow part of a conspiracy that included the Illuminati. Listen to a track from the "Tuesday Weld Experience" here-

Death Of The Shorebirds

Post-Sesquipedelians/Hungery Ghosts part 2

After Jonathan Hess left the Sesquipedelians in 1990, Ed Brister and Cathy Livingston, (Cat), played some shows in San Francisco and in Santa Cruz, CA under the names "Hungery Ghosts", and "The Aquarium".  A friend of Ed's who had moved back to the USA after playing in a pop band in the UK, Steve Ridder, joined us on the bass guitar at this time. Here are some fliers for some of the shows we performed-

 Here are Sound Cloud links to two songs we recorded at Greg Freeman's San Francisco Studio at this time.
"I Saw The Man"
Click here to listen to "I Saw The Man"
"Rocketship Enemy Cat Song"
Click this to hear "Rocketship Enemy Cat Song"
Here is a recording of an improvisational tune called "On The Day You Go"
Listen to "On The Day You Go"

Sesquipedelians video on Youtube

I am reconstructing my musical past from ancient cassette tapes, photographs and scraps of paper with lyrics written on them. The Sequipedelians was a group that was formed briefly in Santa Cruz and then re-formed in San Francisco in 1990-91. Here is a video containing photos of the band while we recorded some tracks with Greg Freeman in San Francisco. Read a short biography of the band here:
http://catlivingstonmusic.blogspot.com/p/the-sesquipedelians.html

Here is the video.....