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Automatic Pilot special gust artist:
Gary Duncan, electric guitar

We wish to thank Duncan fans and Quicksilver fans for visiting this page in such large numbers, and to Shady Grove webmaster Brett for giving us such a great link!

Gary played for Automatic Pilot in 1984 on two songs: Say Mongoose is truly a song for everybody, especially kids. Bobbing for Apples is a raunchier beer drinkin' song.

AUTOMATIC PILOT: Back From The Dead

Listen to Say Mongoose and Bobbing for Apples by Automatic Pilot
Say Mongoose
Complete song (4:52)
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Bobbing for Apples
Gary's opening solo (0:30)
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Please support our effort to preserve and document this historic music by purchasing our compact disc "Back From The Dead." by Automatic Pilot available from CD Baby. and Amazon.com, from the digital music services listed below - or ask your local retailer to order it for you. They can get it!

Automatic Pilot joins a select list of demented artists whose songs are now available for purchase from The Mad Music Archive, our preferred provider. 99¢ easily buys you a high fidelty 192 kbps mp3 of Say Mongoose or Bobbing for Apples that plays on any player or computer and burns to CD without any DRM restrictions. $9.99 buys all 15 songs from Back From The Dead. Sign-up required. The Mad Music Archive

The complete songs are also available from the following digital music services. The links below will open Back from the Dead in the player or web page of the respective service. Say Mongoose and Bobbing for Apples are tracks 2 and 12 respectively.
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AUTOMATIC PILOT: Back From The Dead
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These songs were recorded at the Sammy Gene Music studio in San Rafael in 1984. Gary hung out there with engineer Bob Ohlsson and drummer Sammy Piazza, who did not play on these songs but did play on Dream A Lot. Gary also contributed to the arrangement and production of these songs.

Gary is best know for his work with Quicksilver Messenger Service, in the 1960's and since then.

More information about Gary may be found at:
Shady Grove - The Quicksilver Messenger Service Page

Personnel:

  • Gary Duncan, electric guitar
  • Pete Escovedo, percussion
  • Frank Zincavage, bass (from Romeo Void)
  • and Automatic Pilot:
    • Matthew McQueen, lead vocal
    • Tony Kramedas, vocal
    • Karl Brown, keyboard and vocal
Drum machine programming by Frank Zincavage and Automatic PIlot.

Automatic Pilot special guest artist index

Words and music copyright © 1982, 2002 Karl Brown and Matthew McQueen. You may download these files for your personal use. If you would like to use any of this music for a different purpose, please email Karl Brown at karlap@automaticpilot.org

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