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There is a magic in some books
That sucks a man into connections with
The spirits hard to touch
That join him to his kind
A man will seek the reading out
Guarded like a canteen in the desert heat
But sometimes needs must drink
And then the final drop falls sweet
The last page turns
The end.

Not so with you my wife
My love, my life
I do not have to seek you out
I read you day and night
And drink and bathe
And share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows
From that distant age
And we will never
Taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page.

“Upon Reading ‘All the Pretty Horses’ by Cormac McCarthy Summer 1993” was taken from “REG, The International Roger Waters Fanclub Newsletter”, Issue No. 17, Summer 1997.

You worked hard. Now rest

Now that I’ve recorded my first show, I feel like sharing this is important!

The Tapers' Manifesto
By The Shadow Archivist – May 4, 2025

We are the quiet collectors of moments too sacred to be forgotten. Taping is not a task — it is a vow. When we hit record, we consecrate the unrepeatable.

We don’t capture shows to own them. We preserve them to free them. Our tapes are not bootlegs. They are memory, made magnetic.

Perfect sound is not our god. The hiss, the crowd, the cough — we honor it all. This is not studio gloss. This is sweat and strings and spirit.

We are not pirates. We are librarians of the ephemeral. We take nothing. We give everything. Our reward is the moment being heard again.

We wear no passes. We speak no names. We operate from the edges — unseen but essential.

Taping is our ritual. Our resistance. Our remix of reality. Each archive is an act of love louder than the applause.

This is not the voice of all tapers. It is one signal from the noise — steady, defiant, true.

We are the tape. We are the moment. We are the archive.

You Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark: Arthur Baker on the ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ Dance Remixes

Baker was the producer of the highly influential electro/hip-hop smash “Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force as well as “Confusion,” a treasured single by British post-punk outfit New Order.

In case you didn’t get enough of me talking about Pink Floyd in Episode 16, here’s even more Pink Floyd chatter. A lot more!