Thursday, November 26, 2015

"The End of the World in Fort Worth" - Studying the Schematic

The song means more to me than anything I ever wrote.  It absorbs something which was once "Symphony for Cat" but which has evolved into this.  Ultimately, the message from both is almost identical and incorporating light, love, and music is central, as they are at the MusikCircus and for the same reasons.  This is not an advertising for the MusikCircus but rather a proclamation of the ideals which we shared from the start.

It can also serve as a tribute to Wilko Johnson because I have no doubt he would understand why I approach it with all the passion at my command.  Sometimes it's considerable and it burns for this one.

Um, yes, it does have to be all talk insofar as what you read of it because pushing it out half-baked would eat me and the biggest problem is if you like it because then I'm screwed if I change it.  Most times, if you change something people like already, you're going to lose.


Hypothetical non-looper intro highly desirable

Light keys from F minor without drums or other instruments
Recalls Gabriel's Trumpet riff from the side of the building downtown

The driver hears the intro while driving out of town (to sync with the video)
He sees the road and things in air starting to go crazy

The monk on the porch is beckoning to enter the Rockhouse
Scene still needed because that gives the transport - easy to shoot - do this!

Driver sees the monk from the car and the beckoning summons him inside
Dissolve to inside the Rockhouse

then ... immediately on completion of the dissolve - huzzah with lasers

There is no setup with the lasers because I'll be playing the hypothetical intro
amid the lasers anyway but the driver won't know that
until the dissolve completes and he can see it


Introduction with full instruments via looper phrase 2
The triumphal greeting - big smoke and all lasers firing
Note:  trigger the phrase change whenever you like
but it won't happen until the end of the current phrase.

X1
Note:  instrumental gives time to wake up the iPad for the lyrics

Heavy review on this because light from the iPad sucks but
only other option is writing them on a notepad and that sucks even worse.

Lyrics still may not be possible to read on the iPad because of lasers

More review because reading means glasses so no RayBans
Sunglasses are good especially in heavy laser field
Lasers come from behind me but they still bounce from anything reflective
Sunglasses also a problem for seeing the strings which is a bitch anyway with lasers
But they look cool

X2
The fear is all out there - spoken (maybe)
it consumes them everywhere
one moment they are here
and next they are nowhere

X3
We won't bring that inside
It's not that we would hide
but here we will have the peace
we will not be denied


The brief transitional bit via looper phrase 3

X1
You've come to find Sanctuary - spoken - for contrast with song
but you knew all along
it wasn't in the words
it was always in the song


The song with A, B parts via looper phrase 1

X1
Just leave it behind - sung ... emphatically - defines the melody
you won't need it here
Come feel the love
you've nothing to fear
anymore

sun shines on down (descending part until 'feel the love' turns it around)
it's coming around
in your life
in your heart

X2
Come into the light
Sanctuary is here
It's music and peace
it's always been near
next to you

sun shines on down
it's coming around
in your life
in your heart

X3

Take it away, Galaxy Guitar ... but not for too long, dear.

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