This is Hope Sandoval's early duo she had with Sylvia Gomez in the 1980s before Hope went on to join Opal,&later Mazzy Star.
Song Listing:
1. Give You My Lovin', starts at 0.00 / 2. [Love], 3.44 / 3. Where Did You Go, 5:33 / 4. [Till I Die], 8:08 / 5. Dying, 9:24 / 6. Scarecrow, 12:12 / 7. Come Down, 16:13
Titles in brackets are uncertain. The other titles are correct.
[Update Nov. 1, 2020: Mazzy Star played track 3 "Where Did You Go" [previously known as "Where Did You Run To"] live on their 1990 tour. A 1990 set list used on stage at Columbia, S.C. lists its title as "Where Did You Go," so we now know its correct title.
[Update Sept. 6, 2021]: In the book "Tell Me When It's Over, Notes From The Paisley Underground," edited by Clive Jones is reprinted a 1987 article from Heartbeat mag by Nigel Cross on Going Home. The journalist got to hear the Going Home studio recording and ID-ed some correct titles: "Scarecrow" & "Coming Down" here.
Here are some facts about this recording newly supplied or confirmed by my valued source:
-This is Going Home, Hope Sandoval's and Sylvia Gomez's 1980s duo
-Cassette tapes of this session were distributed privately circa 1985 to people the band knew. Someone who received a tape then cited 1985, though two articles I saw suggest 1986.
-There was reportedly an 8th song on the studio recording called "War in the Souls" (ID-ed by journalist Nigel Cross in a 1987 Heartbeat mag article), a song missing from this version I have. However, I have the missing song on the 1985 4-song live set of Going Home I upped to yt here: [ Ссылка ]
-David Roback (later to become Hope's Opal band mate and Mazzy Star partner) recorded/produced this studio recording
-This recording is the only studio recording ever made by Going Home.
-Going Home consisted of Sylvia Gomez on guitar and Hope Sandoval singing. One guitar and one voice.
Info gleaned from multiple interviews and articles discloses Hope and Sylvia started playing and writing songs together when Hope was 15 (1981 or 1982). By early 1985 they were gigging in the L.A. area. Their third gig can be dated to January 17, 1985 at the Anti-Club opening for Sonic Youth and The Minutemen, which suggests their first public gig was likely in late 1984 or in January, 1985.
In one article, a journalist claims it was Sylvia who gave David an early tape of Going Home in 1983 at a Rain Parade gig (Rain Parade was David's band at the time).
An alternate explanation is found in a direct quote from Hope from a 1990s mag interview by journalist Bruce Warren (mag source and date are unknown), QUOTE: "Back in high school," recounts Hope, "my friend Sylvia Gomez and I were always depressed, and we'd just stay in the house and write songs. One day Kendra [Smith of Opal] came by, asked us to play some songs, and she liked it. We made a tape and Kendra gave the tape to David."
David Roback has said he was very impressed with what he heard and listened to the tape over and over. He decided he wanted to record/produce them.
Hope joined Opal as their new singer (replacing Kendra Smith) in late Nov.,1987, renamed Mazzy Star in 1989.
Songs in brackets are titles supplied by the original sharer, but may be tentative ones. "Give You My Lovin' " is a song Hope originally sang in Going Home, a song Sylvia Gomez wrote&was later recorded by Mazzy Star & became a regularly performed song at Mazzy live shows."Where Did You Go" also became a song performed live by both Opal (with Hope) and by Mazzy Star though it was never on a studio release. "[Love]" & "Scarecrow" Going Home performed live. The fifth song "Dying" is the correct title supplied to me by a knowledgeable source. Formerly it was mis-titled "Close Up My Eyes."
Those interested in an audio file of this recording can download a FLAC version here:
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Lots more live show recordings with DL links can be found at a fan site here: [ Ссылка ]
In more than one 1990s interview, Hope&David said this Going Home studio recording would be officially released. Decades later, we're still waiting. In a 2013 interview Digital Daze interview, Hope again repeated the Going Home recording may get a belated official release. Bring it.
I originally found this recording shared at popular live show torrent sharing site dimeadozen.org. Unfortunately, the person who upped it there had poor knowledge about the origin of the recording and inadvertently supplied misinfo claiming it was "Hope Sandoval solo, 1990." Wrong!
In a 2018 Double J radio interview (now uploaded to my yt Channel) David Roback speaks about this recording. He says it was recorded at engineer (and former member of the band Blue Cheer) Ethan James' Radio Tokyo studio located in an old house in Venice, California.
