Song #8: Yesterday's Not Happening (Anymore) (1981)

We were recording late one evening, when the doorbell to the studio rang (actually a flashing light in the control room).
I asked Damon to go see who it was.
He opened the door to see a parked Rolls Royce, and the smiling face of Billy Preston!

Billy said he had heard there was a new studio in the canyon, and was wondering if he could check it out. Damon brought him into the control room, and everyone freaked out.

The fifth Beatle!

We were in the middle of doing percussion overdubs, and Mr. Preston helped clap, and played the tambourine. He was the perfect gentleman rockstar.

Wow.

Too bad we didn't have a Hammond B3 organ in the house.

Maybe it was for the best.

To quote one of my mentors, "that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone".

Yesterday's Not Happening (Anymore)

You have no future, you have no past

You've just got now, and that won't last

You're feeling less, and wanting more

It's such a mess cause yesterday's

Not happening anymore

Another dollar another day

You didn't bother it got away

And when you found you lost one more

It took you down cause yesterday's

Not happening anymore

And I don't know just what tomorrow's for

Yesterday's not happening anymore

Don't ask me why I don't stay

I'm living for today

You've been to Pismo you dream of Spain

You hope there's more to life than rain

You lose your doubt you close the door

You're moving out cause yesterday's

Not happening anymore

And I don't know just what tomorrow's for

Yesterday's not happening anymore

Don't ask me why I don't stay

I'm living for today

Britt Bacon: vocals, guitar

Alan Morse: guitars, bgs
Scott Monahan: piano, bgs

Teddy Zambetti: drums, bgs

Dean Groves: bass
Billy Preston: tambourine

Written by Britt Bacon and Damon Leigh

©1981

Source: 22 track tape (the other 2 tracks were used for automation). Remixed 2013. No auto-tune.