Louisiana

[Lightning Rod]

This is my way of dealing with the overwhelment

Louisiana 1927
by Randy Newman
as paraphrased by
Lightning Rod

[stilltrucking]

The flood of 1927 was the result of a ruthless decision by the bankers who ran New Orleans. They decided to blow the levees south of the city to reassure their correspondent banks in New York that the river would not flood. Evacuated the whites but not the blacks. They did not even tell the political leaders what they were going to do.

“*New Orleans was never in any real danger from the flood of 1927. Too many levees had given way upstream for the flood waters to threaten the great port city. Nevertheless, the bankers and businessmen decided prop up the confidence of their investors by dynamiting the levees downriver from their city and turning 10,000 of their neighbors into refugees. The refugees with very few exceptions were never reimbursed for their lost property and mangled lives”

http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/store-b ... erica.html



You can hear an interview with the author of Rising Tide on this link
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4831423

[jimboloco]

I sent this one over to the dj at www.wmnf.org

dj@wmnf.org

Hello Rob here is my friend Lightening Rod and his compo on New Orleans, maybe it would air on the Radioactivity Show.

Jimboloco

[Lightning Rod]

thanks jimbo, for passing this along

doreen tell me it's one of the worst pieces I've ever done

but it had been on my mind for a week, so I recorded it.

[Doreen Peri]

I thought they were bed tracks.

[jimboloco]

does he sing to you at night?
oopps

I sing a lot at work, mercy we carry on.

Sent the email to the dj. will peruse another show and send it out,

nice to have tunes in your head. I liked it, also the imagery and the lamentation, not a bed track
not a bad track
but hey, who'se gonna know?
what happens here does not necessarily stay here, ma'am.

[Doreen Peri]

It wasn't bad.

I just think he's got so much talent, there are so many which are better. If I were going to send tracks to a DJ, I would have selected others.

I got pissed, that's all.

He told me they were bed tracks for my voice. I thought I was supposed to sing on this tune.

I was sitting here editing the original text to fit what he actually sang and rehearsing it, singing with it, thinking my track was next since he told me they were bed tracks for my voice.

But he published it with only his voice and so I told him I'd sing another song later and stopped preparing to be recorded.

I treasure my time in life. I don't have many hours. I wasted an hour and a half or maybe two getting ready to sing into the mic.

I could have been painting or working on my own tune.

Bitter artistic types. Don't ever become one. Believe me. It's no fun.

[jimboloco]

are you gonna harmonise to the tune? sounds like you are saying "sour grapes" cause you didn't get to sing along and about a lament at that, my goodness.

so i need a recorder and can then download me singing my favorite stuff! yippee!

so a bed track is one that you lay down for another to sing along with it and then you've got a duet.

[Doreen Peri]

Bed tracks are the basics of the song... the drums, the instruments and even possibly, a vocal track, as was the case in this recording.

Yes, I thought it was going to be a duet.

I was going to harmonize some, but mostly sing the lead, with Clay's vocals being the more subtle vocals, sometimes with us singing in unison, and also I was going to add some talk to it .... like I do sometimes ....

Sure, it's sour grapes. Why not? You could call it that.

I just consider it a waste of my time to work on a piece I thought he wanted me to record, especially talking about the arrangement in advance and how we wanted it to sound, and then find out that my vocals were an afterthought, afterall. Or something.

I don't have that much time on this planet, jimbo. I only have a limited number of hours. I love to have fun with music, don't get me wrong, and it was fun rehearsing my part, but it was also work and took up time I didn't need to spend because I have other things to work on, so here's the sour grapes.... My vocals weren't included. I got pissed that my time was wasted.

*smile*

You can get audacity... a simple recording app for free... download it to your computer, plug a mic in the back of the computer and sing for us! I'd love it!

[jimboloco]

ok and i will sing as my debut, a cover of john sebastians
i had a dream last night

mercy hey this is great! so we can do spoken words! this should be something all of us are jamming with.

i gotta get a mike. duh, what are we waiting for?

[Artguy]

"...Ahm goin t' Louisiana with a banjo on my knee..."