LyinDan
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2/5/2016 3:57:41 PM
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I'm old enough to have experienced the folk scene, "Did he ever return, oh, no he never returned, " from the MTA. etc. Means nuthin to you youngsters. Well, there was this folk club down by the Arkansas river, (The Levi). That was my first club experience. Got to perform a bit down there onstage (first time ever onstage). In Arkansas, one of the noontime show standbys was Evelyn Elman (Sp?). I knew her son from school. He was also into the folk scene. So, they were like, bigshots in the local social scene (OK, his Mom was). The Dave Clark Five (you remember them, right? Not? Your pubes weren't even born yet, then. Hell, your Dad's hadn't dropped yet) did a local "concert". Well-hyped at the time. The after concert party was at my bud's Mom's (Elman's) house (out in the floocey part of Little Rock). Well, I had just started writing songs, and I'd shown one of my buds who was invited to the afterparty (I wasn't...they feared my oddness, I think. As did most) one of my songs, and as it would have it, he played it for the DC5. So that was like the first time one of my tunes had some sort of worldwide exposure (DC5 were English). I forget where I'm going with this. But it doesn't really matter, does it? According to my bud, they said, "Hmmmm" or something like that.
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2/6/2016 7:57:54 AM
The Man Who Never Returned?
Sounds like me. Oh you have no idea.
Well, this is of course a very subjective matter....
So you'll get a different answer from pretty much anyone and everyone.
Some have said "Everybody Loves A Polka" but ask around,
find anyone? Me neither.
Though I might just prefer it to Hip Hop, which will tell you a bit
about how much I like Hip Hop.
They once asked Ray Charles,
'do you like Rap?' and he said 'it's okay',
then they said 'hum your favorite ram tune',
and then Charles said, recounting the story,
'and a part of me died right then.'
For me, it's about the song.
I know Alicia Keys has this Epic Tune "New York"....
and I'm dimly aware that it has a rap part,
presumably done by Jay Z who is a billionaire,
oh yeah, Life Is Fair....
but mercifully, I have absolutely no awareness of the rap part...
and maybe neither does anyone else,
not routinely into Hip Hop.
And there are a few of us, and We Matter Too, DAMMIT.
So anyway, to me, it's about the song,
whatever kind of music it is.
And yeah, I think, the best possible use of Hip Hop,
to close that subject for now at least as far as I'm concerned,
involves a chorus, an actual melodic musical chorus,
preferably a few one, not one lamely sampled off a record.
I'm a Bird.
Birds Hate That.
~L
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