Midnight harbor and light rain ambience. Spend an early morning in a Martha's Vineyard harbor. Recorded near the sands of a beach motel — you will get a mix of nature and machine noise (ACs, exhaust, maritime, etc).
Speaking of sand... Was Mort Garson talking about getting drug-high in "Big Sur"? His trippy 1968 musical number where he addresses a Mrs. Sanberg throughout about a song he learned "while high on Big Sur."
And yes, I am for sure thick but I can still spot an ode to drugs.
Look, I know that getting high has been a human aspiration forever. Early humans didn't have smartphones. I imagine staring at a tree rather than watching Netflix could be boring. "The same thing is on the sky today... what's on rock? Pass the opium."
There was probably a lot of early PTSD as well — what with unconquered nature. Of course, our early ancestors self-medicated.
So I'm sure Garson is referring to getting drug high on Big Sur. Yet, for argument's sake, Garson could be talking elevation. The cliffs of Big Sur are just under a mile high. And for an East Coaster/ Appalachian fanboy, that is pretty high.
Maybe there was a vagabond with a guitar and a campfire perching the cliffs of Big Sur. "I will now teach you a song. Tell Mrs. Sanberg."
By the way, was Mrs. Sandberg on Big Sur as well? Did the conversation about the learned song happen just after Garson learned the song?
Did Garson pick up trash and discover it was balled-up sheet music? "Holy crap a song. I am going to learn this song. And then I am going to teach it to Mrs. Sanberg."
And who the hell is Mrs. Sanberg?