my piano yesterday. It was only out in one place. The lower bass section where the notes only have two strings. It was the F# I believe. It took me less than a minute to fix it. That was one of the more exciting things that happened. I did also tidy up some of the junk that was scattered around the piano, but it started to get hot so I called it a day at about 12.30 – 1 o’ clock.
I was listening to yesterday’s rehearsal and on a couple of the songs the guitar was mightily out of tune. It was cartoonish it was so bad. I tried redoing it but it’s impossible to hit the notes in exactly the same place again. It’s always going to sound weird. There will be another rehearsal in less than a week anyway so who cares? This band is becoming so well rehearsed now that it’s starting to sound scary good.
I don’t expect much traction from this unless we get out and play somewhere. Youtube isn’t doing it for us. It will eventually happen though, (I think) but I don’t know when. It’s unlikely that I will play in Australia, however. I tried organizing some shows a while back and just ran into a brick wall. I have no idea what’s going on down there, but I suspect we’re on a completely different wavelength these days. None of it makes any sense at all.
To quote my own song, “You Don’t Know What It’s Like to Be Somebody Like Me”. While I was tidying up yesterday I came across an exercise book with some songs that I had written. I have lots of these books, but I was intrigued by one of the songs in there. This was a pretty good book, because there were a lot of hits in there. They may not be hits to you now, but it’s only a matter of time.
There were songs like “Twisted Love”, indeed this was an early draft of which only the first four lines of the first verse have remained. The first page featured “You and Me We’re Crazy” pretty much recorded as it was written, with only a few minor alterations. Then there was one of the greatest songs ever written, “The Kings of Rock and Roll”. It’s written down on the pages completely as it was recorded. A couple of crossed out words, and four lines of a verse that never made it to the final recording. It’s amazing to see this stuff years later.
One of the more “interesting” ones was a song which was written down without a title. It ended up being called “It’ll Be Alright in the End”. I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote it but it was recorded pretty much verbatim off the page. I’m going to write it out here so that you can follow along with the video of it that I’ll post below. After listening to this a couple of times I’m starting to think that some, if not all of it was made up on the spot ie, ad libbed, and I just copied it down on the page after the fact, so I could make the video. I don’t think I would have written something like that and called it a finished song.
If all of the above sounds like self-promotion it is. Nobody is coming out of the woodwork to listen to, critique or even acknowledge my existence at this point. The so-called music critics wouldn’t know a good tune if it bit them in the ass. They mostly have pre-conceived ideas of what’s acceptable by their idiotic standards, a lot of which are governed by what some other peer group imbecile told them was supposed to be good.
I’m not waiting around for anyone to ‘discover’ me that’s for sure. I may as well be on a distant planet at this stage. Indeed the whole arts and entertainment system is rigged and controlled by very few people who decide what the public are going to “think” they discovered all on their own.
There is no other way to describe the popularity of something like Rap music, which by any account isn’t music but in large part is actually violent political unlistenable hate speech babble. The constant bombardment of this garbage into people’s heads in every form of media is RELENTLESS. There is a monolithic agenda and it isn’t friendly to a high trust family focused society. This is communism, the same boring shit that clings like a leech to everything good and drains the life out of it. It’s a parasitical monster embedded deep into the culture.
Good Day
Alright in the End – words and music Ian Stephen 2010
Testing…testing
Layin’ on my friend’s bed, starin’ at the fan. I close my eyes and it goes round and round.
Somebody’s makin’ noise with a leaf blower, or maybe it’s just a garden mower.
Birds are singing in the trees. Cars roll along completely with the breeze.
There’s a winning sound ringing down in the town. And the thought of us together just tumbled to the ground.
Dad fell out of the tree. He said, “I’m ok, just let it be” and we will say
“There will always be trouble in this crazy old world, so here’s another joke about a cat and a girl.” ’bout a cat and a girl
Oh Yeah, you know it’s gonna be alright in the end.
instrumental break
Summer just kicked into gear, and in another place it’s cold and drear.
It doesn’t matter where you are as long as you’re in need.
And love does not exist, it’s gone away and it won’t be missed.
BUT IT’LL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END
IT’LL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END
IT’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT IN THE END.
YEAH ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT IN THE END
(and that’s the sound of the ghost- motherfucker!)
Good Day.
This is an unlisted video. I took it down because it was kinda weird. Anyhoo, you can watch it from the link below.