No coffee in a few days

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Thu Nov 30 13:29:28 EST 1995


> Yeah, well-I saw Robert Plant forget the words to Whole Lotta Love! He had to
> whirl around and look at the teleprompter...
> Hey, the problem is not the guy forgetting the lyrics, it's the audience
> knowin' em too well! :-) In clubs-- or the good old daze of low-fi concert
> concert sound-- you never hear/heard 'em anyway!
> Most people should have this problem...have having written such a huge body
> of work... but the thing is, sometimes you're looking at something or someone
> in the crowd, or thinking of your laundry list...

        Heck, I've only ever written a few songs but I can never remember
the lyrics ... mind you, I'm only rarely called upon to sing them, so I
scarcely have much contact with the lyrics after they're written anyway
(unless I get bored and feel like trying to rewrite them).

Cheers,
Carl



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