GONZO-X
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from the new Bats Brew album "The Wild Animals"
from the new Bats Brew album "The Wild Animals"
Slouching Raymond
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I listened, Gonzo.
Nodded my head, and tapped my foot.
Nodded my head, and tapped my foot.
Papanate
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Kinda at the top of your range isn't it?
GONZO-X
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ha! if i get your head slightly moving,I listened, Gonzo.
Nodded my head, and tapped my foot.
and the foot wanders,
then i've done my job.
thanks for listening slouching raymond
GONZO-X
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Papanate
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That's very Deep Purple - in fact I think it's a song by them.
fantastic version. You are nailing the whole song.
GONZO-X
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Lyric story:
so, i'm just re-telling a story in a stripped down way.
i found an aboriginal story, that has a tie-in to telling stories thru songs and dances....
the aboriginal people have this thing they call the dreaming:
The Dreaming -- also means to 'see and understand the law'
the Aborigines believe that the Ancestor Spirits came to the earth in human form and as they moved through the land,
they created the animals, plants, rocks and other forms of the land that we know today.
They also created the relationships between groups and individuals to the land, the animals and other people.
Once the ancestor spirits had created the world, they changed into trees, the stars, rocks, watering holes or other objects.
These are the sacred places of Aboriginal culture and have special properties.
Because the ancestors did not disappear at the end of the Dreaming,
but remained in these sacred sites,
the Dreaming is never-ending, linking the past and the present, the people and the land.
one of the most famous of these stories is the "Wagilag Sisters"....
The Wagilag Sisters
The story goes that the two Wagilag sisters, one of whom was pregnant, were fleeing their home and were being followed by clansmen. On their travels they come across many animals and plants and brought them in to life by naming them. Eventually, the Wagilag sisters set up camp beside a fertile waterhole at Mirarrmina.
There, one of the sisters pollutes the waterhole and the pregnant sister gives birth, which causes Wititj the python to wake up angry and incensed. Wititj creates a storm on emerging from the waterhole and attempts to wash the two Wagilag sisters in to the well with his downpour (the first monsoon).
The two Wagilag sisters dance and sing sacred songs in an attempt to diffuse the situation and keep them safe, but when the sisters become too exhausted to continue, the python is able to swallow them up (including child and dog)! However, soon after, Wititj develops stomach pains and groans skywards above the land where he attracts the attention of other great snakes who also rise up in to the sky.
The great snakes talk and they discover they all have different names but they wonder why the python is ill. Realizing he made a mistake, Wititj lies about what he has just eaten but the pain becomes so unbearable Wititj falls back to the land and vomits up the sisters who regain their life from the stinging bites of caterpillars.
Undeterred, Wititj beats them with clapsticks and eats them again. Later, the Wagilag sister's clansmen, asleep in the hollow left by the python's fall, were visited in their dreams by the sisters who revealed to the clansmen the secrets of the songs and dances which had been performed in an effort to stop the rainstorm.
all this leads to my version of the story:
"the secrets of the songs and dance"
2 sisters, 1 with child
runs away to trees and water in the wild
birth of a child brings out the snake,
and both their lives it will take
rain and song to no avail, both are swallowed inside the tail
snake does lie about the meal, the caterpillar bites to heal
eaten again, and snake is gone,
the dreams reveal before the dawn---
the secrets of the songs and dance...
so, i'm just re-telling a story in a stripped down way.
i found an aboriginal story, that has a tie-in to telling stories thru songs and dances....
the aboriginal people have this thing they call the dreaming:
The Dreaming -- also means to 'see and understand the law'
the Aborigines believe that the Ancestor Spirits came to the earth in human form and as they moved through the land,
they created the animals, plants, rocks and other forms of the land that we know today.
They also created the relationships between groups and individuals to the land, the animals and other people.
Once the ancestor spirits had created the world, they changed into trees, the stars, rocks, watering holes or other objects.
These are the sacred places of Aboriginal culture and have special properties.
Because the ancestors did not disappear at the end of the Dreaming,
but remained in these sacred sites,
the Dreaming is never-ending, linking the past and the present, the people and the land.
one of the most famous of these stories is the "Wagilag Sisters"....
The Wagilag Sisters
The story goes that the two Wagilag sisters, one of whom was pregnant, were fleeing their home and were being followed by clansmen. On their travels they come across many animals and plants and brought them in to life by naming them. Eventually, the Wagilag sisters set up camp beside a fertile waterhole at Mirarrmina.
There, one of the sisters pollutes the waterhole and the pregnant sister gives birth, which causes Wititj the python to wake up angry and incensed. Wititj creates a storm on emerging from the waterhole and attempts to wash the two Wagilag sisters in to the well with his downpour (the first monsoon).
The two Wagilag sisters dance and sing sacred songs in an attempt to diffuse the situation and keep them safe, but when the sisters become too exhausted to continue, the python is able to swallow them up (including child and dog)! However, soon after, Wititj develops stomach pains and groans skywards above the land where he attracts the attention of other great snakes who also rise up in to the sky.
The great snakes talk and they discover they all have different names but they wonder why the python is ill. Realizing he made a mistake, Wititj lies about what he has just eaten but the pain becomes so unbearable Wititj falls back to the land and vomits up the sisters who regain their life from the stinging bites of caterpillars.
Undeterred, Wititj beats them with clapsticks and eats them again. Later, the Wagilag sister's clansmen, asleep in the hollow left by the python's fall, were visited in their dreams by the sisters who revealed to the clansmen the secrets of the songs and dances which had been performed in an effort to stop the rainstorm.
all this leads to my version of the story:
"the secrets of the songs and dance"
2 sisters, 1 with child
runs away to trees and water in the wild
birth of a child brings out the snake,
and both their lives it will take
rain and song to no avail, both are swallowed inside the tail
snake does lie about the meal, the caterpillar bites to heal
eaten again, and snake is gone,
the dreams reveal before the dawn---
the secrets of the songs and dance...
GONZO-X
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yea, this song...That's very Deep Purple - in fact I think it's a song by them.
seems everybody that's a 'bit' older, has a story about this song...
i know i do.
but i learned how to play guitar, trying to copy blackmore's styles and riffs, so copying this song is really more a labor of admiration than anything else.
i changed the solo section, made it my own, didn't play the super cool 'off' harmony that blackmore originally did,
and most everyone misses that, which i think it sticks out like a sore thumb!
but the song works anyway, so it just blazes along.
that song test my highest range that is not falsetto, that's for sure!
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Bulls Hit
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Not often you get to hear a digeridoo in HR!
Top notch quality as usual. I like the synths, vocals excellent. Has an almost Steve Hillage quality, the way the sequencers interact with the guitar delays, even your guitar tones.
Nice job all over
Top notch quality as usual. I like the synths, vocals excellent. Has an almost Steve Hillage quality, the way the sequencers interact with the guitar delays, even your guitar tones.
Nice job all over
GONZO-X
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hey bulls! thanks for listening to this one... yea, the digeridoo, it just seemed like a logical choice. to set the mood.
the synths were all done by 'virtualan', a collaborator located in scotland.
he did the synths, and drum programming, sent me the files, and i built on to it from there.
steve hillage, theres a name drop that's not common...
i actually listened to hillage for a while, i got into him through rundgren.
i had his "L" album, and "Green".
cool player.
thanks again for the comments
