DON'T WAIT is the 4th track taken from the 1992 album FLAME by Australian musician MARK GILLESPIE, recorded after a break of 8 years, many of that spent working in Bangladesh. With JOHN FRENCH sound engineer, it joins together the finest musicians in Australia, then and now. As well as MARK GILLESPIE on guitars, synths and organ, it features ROSS HANNAFORD - lead guitar JOE CREIGHTON - bass guitar JOHN WATSON - DRUMS JAMES BLACK - keyboards ALEX PERTOUT - percussion GEOFF BURSTIN - mandolin VANETTA FIELDS - vocal Other YOUTUBES recently uploaded from FLAME are SOMEBODY DEAD, BEAUTIFUL GIRL, LONG TIME, WITHOUT YOU, and ALL MINE, which features RENEE GEYER. 2 other YOUTUBES contain tracks from a 1980 EP after ONLY HUMAN, and these are - DEEP AS YOU and an instrumental FALLING. 4 other YOUTUBES recently uploaded contain songs recorded by MARK GILLESPIE in Dhaka, 2010, and feature the singing of the children of SREEPUR VILLAGE, BANGLADESH, where MARK GILLESPIE was a volunteer in! the '80s. DON'T WAIT uses the idiom of the African-American church-singing style, but expresses a message of its own. This veneer is reinforced by the organ prelude, sounding like a small church organ, (but which is in fact a Hammond B3), and the spine-chilling vocals of VANETTA FIELDS, whose heritage actually is in this vocal style. However MARK GILLESPIE exhorts others not to wait until senility before making a step onto 'the straight and narrow path', that life is brief, and to ignore all the ...
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