Yesterday's Yesterday
(1988)
John's Thoughts
"Yesterday's Yesterday" was originally set out just to be another piece of music to write to experiment with my new primitive midi setup. I wanted it to be piano driven and light, and a score I had just discovered, Goldsmith's A Patch of Blue came to mind. (I had just gotten an old Citadel LP of it.) So I did some tiddling on the piano in the spirit of that score, and took it from there. Then I sort of became obsessed with making this a piece of music, putting it on the back burner for days at a time. One Thanksgiving I was at my friend's parents house bored out of my mind. Fortunately there was an old upright piano in the living room on which I entertained myself. It is here I stumbled upon the theme that I really wanted. When I got home I went to that old Baldwin keyboard and fired up the little Roland sequencer and revamped the entire thing with this new thematic idea. Unfortunately the only recording I have if it is one where I held a mono cassette recorder up to the speaker as I played back.