Bill Callahan, born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan pioneered the lo-figenre of underground rock, with homemade tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he signed a record contract with the label drag city. Callahan started out as a highly experimentalartist, utilizing sub-standard instruments and recording equipment. His reason for using the lo-fi approach was not so much an aesthetic choice, rather it came from his lack of knowledge of recording studios, and fear of giving up control to professional engineers.
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Bathysphere Lyrics
Smog
When I was seven
I asked my mother
To trip me to the bay
And put me on a ship
And lower me down
Lower me out of here
Because when I was seven
I wanted to live in a bathysphere
Between coral
Silent eel
Silver swordfish
I cant really feel or dream down here
And if the water should cut my line (*2)
Set me free
And if the water should cut my line
Set me free, I dont mind
Ill be the lost sailor, my home is the sea
When I was seven
My father said to me
but you cant swim
And Ive never dreamed of the sea again