Songwriting Workshop

[Lee Knight]

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[bee3]

I mentioned Phish in another post.  I was really into these guys mid-late nineties...  

[rsadasiv]

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[bee3]

Ahhh... Red Baron.  That is the shit!

[rsadasiv]

It was 1994 - I was living on the south side of Chicago and working at a bank in the Loop. My buddy Eric sat in the cube across from me, and he kept humming/singing/whistling this little tune, all day. "Eric, I'm on the phone, shut up", "Eric, that's fucking annoying man, stop singing", "Eric, you're doing it again".

Finally, when our shift was over, he handed me his Walkman, put the headphones on my ears and hit play. I was totally hooked.

I bought a copy on my way home that night, and it stayed in my Walkman for at least a month. That Walkman was tough on tapes, and towards the end it started to get the flanged-out worn/stretched tape thing happening, but I kept listening to it anyway, and to this day I still hear the worn tape sounds when I listen to those songs.

A bizarre sense of 70's AOR:

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Belle and Sebastian wish they had songs this good:

[bee3]

Ram's Red Baron post made me reflect back on how I even discovered Billy Cobham.  When I was 19, 20, 21 years old... I used to go every Tuesday  night with my fake ID to a little dive bar in West Philly to see these guys.  

Masters at their craft... they would just jam big time.  I'm so fortunate to have grown up getting to see this kind of shit on a regular basis.  Man, I miss those days...  (beware Lee... there is some minor slapping going on in this clip).  oke:

[Lee Knight]

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rsadasiv wrote:

It was 1994 - I was living on the south side of Chicago and working at a bank in the Loop.

In '94 I was walking through the loop 5 days a week from Union Station, past the opera house down to Michigan, turn right, past the Art Institute, and arrive at Columbia. 600 S. Michigan Ave. Maybe we ate a sandwich next to each other unawares?

[Lee Knight]

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bee3 wrote:

Ram's Red Baron post made me reflect back on how I even discovered Billy Cobham.  When I was 19, 20, 21 years old... I used to go every Tuesday  night with my fake ID to a little dive bar in West Philly to see these guys.  

Masters at their craft... they would just jam big time.  I'm so fortunate to have grown up getting to see this kind of shit on a regular basis.  Man, I miss those days...  (beware Lee... there is some minor slapping going on in this clip).  oke:

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I promise, I don't melt or anything when I hear slapping. BTW, that ^ ^ ^ was fantastic. And really, that's not what I meant by "slapping" anyway. I really was referring more to that kid on the music store playing his 10 Brothers Johnson riffs and driving me crazy, or the guy trying to lay down a bass track and can't seem to just PLAY THE FREAKING SONG cause he's too busy trying bust a poppin' groove.

^ That dude above and the drummer? Phenomenal.

[bee3]

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Lee Knight wrote:

I promise, I don't melt or anything when I hear slapping. BTW, that ^ ^ ^ was fantastic. And really, that's not what I meant by "slapping" anyway. I really was referring more to that kid on the music store playing his 10 Brothers Johnson riffs and driving me crazy, or the guy trying to lay down a bass track and can't seem to just PLAY THE FREAKING SONG cause he's too busy trying bust a poppin' groove.

^ That dude above and the drummer? Phenomenal.

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Just busting your chops.  I figured that's what you meant...

[Oswlek]

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Lee Knight wrote:

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I really like this.  No man, I mean I, like, really like this.  As in buy it like it.

[rsadasiv]

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Lee Knight wrote:

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rsadasiv wrote:

It was 1994 - I was living on the south side of Chicago and working at a bank in the Loop.

In '94 I was walking through the loop 5 days a week from Union Station, past the opera house down to Michigan, turn right, past the Art Institute, and arrive at Columbia. 600 S. Michigan Ave. Maybe we ate a sandwich next to each other unawares?

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You, me and about a million other people.

IC to Michigan/Jackson, walk to LaSalle/Monroe. About every other Friday I would leave work and walk over to Union Station and catch the Amtrak train to Ann Arbor.

[Oswlek]

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bee3 wrote:

I mentioned Phish in another post.  I was really into these guys mid-late nineties...  

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In high school my best friend was a huge Phish fan who repeatedly tried to get me into them to no avail.  I loathed them so much that I'd literally get nauseous when he'd pop in a cassette.

And then he played this one....

I can't say enough about how much this song hit me.  And still does.  I have no idea what the hell the lyrics mean, but there is some powerful feeling that coalesces with them and the music. 

Even after that, I wasn't a Phish fan - just a "Fast Enough" fan - until this really amazing band ripped a terrific version of this tune in my buddies dorm lobby:

Hooked.  Just listen to those drums!  To this day I am blown away at Fishman's approach.  I love the snare use in particular.  All song it comes in only when the song is really getting out of control, to accentuate the chaos, but then it is the snare he rides when it is time to take the song home at 6:45. 

[bee3]

There are some wicked live versions of Stash out there.

[Lee Knight]

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Oswlek wrote:

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Lee Knight wrote:

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I really like this.  No man, I mean I, like, really like this.  As in buy it like it.

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Buy it. The whole album is fantastic. I listened straight through last night stuck in traffic. Here's the opening track. A bit more in your face.

All of your wallowing is unbecoming

You gotta take on your own from here, it's getting pathetic

And I'm almost done... here

[Oswlek]

Just bought that one and "Three Flights from...." after listening to this amazing song.

[rsadasiv]

Leonard Scaper

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[LCK]

A great singer, a great songwriter.

[rsadasiv]

Puncturing the cocoon of stardom.

"Uh dad, the new single that you just released to a thousand radio stations sounds exactly like that k.d. lang song"

"It does? Why didn't anyone tell me?"