Silver Machine - William Shatner

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> On 06 Jun 2012, at 11:27 , Patrick Charles wrote:
>> Rutger Hauer doing the Siege & Investiture...
> Woah! :)

 	Amen!

> For, like, 15 years I've been musing over a song inspired by Hauer's 
> "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe ... Attack ships on fire 
> off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near 
> the Tannhäuser Gate" from the "Tears in Rain" solioquy at the end of 
> Blade Runner.  I think Jon Jarrett and I were kicking the idea around at 
> some point; I more or less remember the riffs around which something was 
> going to be built.  I was going to steal some ideas from Lemmy's "The 
> Watcher" and "Make 'Em Blind" (e.g. "We come in blazing rockets/We bring 
> you greed and slavery/No alien utopia/Will long survive our bravery"). 
> Anyway, I always wanted to know how those attack ships ended up on fire 
> off the shoulder of Orion, and it seemed like whatever that story was 
> would be worth a song.. :)

 	We were, indeed, kicking the idea round; I more or less remember 
the verse riff you were toying with and still have the lyrics I wrote on 
the home machine, though as I recall them, sadly, they don't quite match 
your stated aims above ;-) The soliloquy also turns up in a Ship of Fools 
track called `In Time', to great effect (mind you the whole track is done 
to great effect). Yours,
 			 Jon

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   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
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