Silver Machine - William Shatner

mike c insect.brain at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 15 20:27:02 EDT 2012


sorry, carry on, oops~~~

On 9/15/12, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> and NO!!! never was a smack user!!!
>
>
> On 9/14/12, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
>> On 14 Sep 2012, at 09:25 , Jonathan Jarrett
>> <jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 ;-)
>>
>> Well, we could always revisit the lyrics -- could make it an Espada Negra
>> song ....
>>
>> Speaking of which ....
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carl
>>
>> --
>> Carl Edlund Anderson
>> http://www.carlaz.com/
>>
>



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