The Abandoned Hospital Ship

Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:

"It was a sort of Twilight Zone episode: I was thinking of a giant hospital spaceship going to different galaxies. One patient shows up, they work frantically through the night to save him, and at the end of the episode, it's God that they saved; God was in some horrible galactic accident. In a typical Rod Sterling sort of way, the patient leaves, and they're all sitting there thinking, 'Oh, nice work,' but they don't realize the extent of what they did. I was playing with a lot of film loops at the time, and the projector just sort of naturally made its way onto the tune. I think we tried turning it off, but the minute we did, the whole atmosphere disappeared."


Well, it took some time
'Cause it's a lot
God, it's a bunch
It's such a big, old, black golden buzz

And yeah, it took some help
With lots of machines, the experts could tell
With their equipment pushed to the max

And sure it seems easy now
But I'll tell you what, we were perplexed
Finding the needle in the needle's disguise

And now that it's conceived
The station is all settled down
And I'm sort of relieved
And I'm getting over it now

Live

"The Abandoned Hospital Ship" was used as a breathtaking introduction to many of the latter Christmas lights shows, with the wall of thousands of lights coming on in the middle of the song, right with the drums after Wayne's vocals and Ronald's solo.

 

Live Performances

12/11/1995 Hoboken NJ USA Maxwell's
The Brain has documented 13 Performances
The Brain has documented 9 Live Downloads available
05/24/1996 Dallas TX USA Trees Download Available
05/23/1996 Austin TX USA Liberty Lunch  
05/22/1996 Houston TX USA The Abyss Download Available
05/10/1996 Seattle WA USA Moe's Download Available
05/04/1996 Minneapolis MN USA First Avenue Download Available
05/02/1996 Milwaukee WI USA Shank Hall  
04/30/1996 Chicago IL USA The Double Door Download Available
04/29/1996 Chicago IL USA The Double Door Download Available
03/25/1996 Cologne Germany Luxor Download Available
03/18/1996 Frankfurt Germany Nachtleben Download Available

 


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