Born of Stars by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.
This was recorded right at the end of a session. At the start you hear George saying that there's about 16 minutes left (until they have to start to pack up and leave). "Let's make it a good one," he says.
The whole session should have been filmed by a friend of Pok's who was allegedly something of a whizz where it came to video matters.
Unfortunately, he turned out to be rather unreliable. He suddenly entered the room through the door, camera to eye and rolling, halfway through this version of Born of Stars, which was actually the very last song Alchemeon played that day. At 1:25 Pok shouts "Hey!" to greet the man's arrival. Fashionably late would be understating it somewhat.
Not only was he very late, he also filmed a lot of things that were not very interesting, such as George's bare foot for about a minute in close-up, some cymbal stands and the carpet.
As the band were packing, he sat on the floor leaning against a wall with hands in pockets, surreptitiously stroking his raging boner. It was all just a bit too weird.
Later that evening, Pok saw the footage. He was so appalled at how awful it was he simply deleted it all. Blam.
Pok plays Marsha on this track. She is a 1985 Ibanez Roadstar II in pale gold with a floating trem. At 8:11, just after a shout of "Rebirth!", he breaks a string and the instrument immediately goes completely out of tune. Unfazed, Pok finishes the rendition, expertly using the whammy bar to control the guitar. You can hear him grinning as he goes into the following vocal.
* Born of Stars is a highly rifftastic space rock song in the key of E.
* Several sections are deliberately left quite loose to allow for improvisation.
* The lyrics also tend to vary from one version to another.
* We have transcribed the correct lyrics for both the Winter and Spring versions on their separate pages, which differ from each other slightly in places.
* Born of Stars was performed by the Spacegoats, including in their brief “Electric Elves” manifestation.
lyrics
BORN OF STARS
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya
Gaia
We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
You are a seed of time
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya
Gaia
Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
We are a brighter future
Create a brighter future
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya
Gaia
Earth
Planet Earth
Has made a conscious decision
To become one
To become whole.
Entombed, cocooned
In metal and plastic and effluence
And pollution and nuclear waste
Yet she shall break free
Free from these chains
Free from this prison
Planet Earth
And all her people and creatures and life forms
Are undergoing an interplanterary, evolutionary, galactical
REBIRTH!!!
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
We are seeds of… time!
Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
We are a brighter future
We are a brighter future
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya
Gaia
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