The Mystery Lady could rock and she could also make you cry. This one is for Jerry because he was dying of AIDS and the end was near. He and his partner were friends and we hung with them fairly frequently because Jerry got some relief from the ganja and I had some so One Love. Neither of us thought so much of Rasta at the time but you don't need to think of it to live it.
"Songbird" is available for listening or downloading at full audio resolution free from the Ride the Dragon podcast.
Update: link to the song replaced due to a previous browser error in loading it. The replacement version is verified and definitely works.
Something you may notice are the effects on Mystery Lady's voice and little was added to the production after the fact. The effects come from a digital harmonizer which is not at all the same as an autotune pitch shifter and she did it at least ten years before anyone was getting a similar effect from autotune.
We note Cher is the only one who was any good at with autotune and precisely because she did not need it while many modern pop singers use autotune to edit their singing in much the same way as they use a Facebook spelling checker to make it seem like they know English. We have a fairly strong suspicion such modern singers without autotune would sound like a Tennessee bullfrog.
(Ed: at least the Tennessee bullfrog is on-pitch!)
Good point, lovely Satchmo.
The Tennessee bullfrog has to be on-pitch or he won't attract any female bullfrogs so you damn sure bet he will be on-pitch and (gasp) he won't use autotune to get there.
Jerry had a hell of a time with his death because he was dying from the moment he got the diagnosis and this cost him almost all of the joy he might have felt before the end. While getting so sick is misery and hellish, it is intermixed with joyfulness and appreciation of life sometimes. His partner, when last seen, was out in the Philippines helping people set up computer systems and not as any type of corporate effort, it was something he felt he could do.
Mystery Lady was not there for whatever reason but I saw Jerry not long before he died and he was agonizing from it and his death came hard. Maybe people think my intense animosity toward the Reagans is a simple political construct for my own amusement but it's not true as I have watched a man die from their willful ignorance and hypocrisy regarding the AIDS epidemic in which they did not one damn thing but instead launched the War on Drugs which capriciously killed many more people, quite often without rhyme or reason.
For you, Jerry, from the Mystery Lady.
Silas only did the background support for orchestration, etc. He did not play the instruments for this one but rather used a MIDI track and did his magic to it. Silas did not mind at all being the band for Mystery Lady although sometimes he could get a bit shirty about too many rehearsals of the song but the reason for them is one we immediately know: she wanted it to be as perfect as she could make it for him.
"Songbird" is available for listening or downloading at full audio resolution free from the Ride the Dragon podcast.
Update: link to the song replaced due to a previous browser error in loading it. The replacement version is verified and definitely works.
Something you may notice are the effects on Mystery Lady's voice and little was added to the production after the fact. The effects come from a digital harmonizer which is not at all the same as an autotune pitch shifter and she did it at least ten years before anyone was getting a similar effect from autotune.
We note Cher is the only one who was any good at with autotune and precisely because she did not need it while many modern pop singers use autotune to edit their singing in much the same way as they use a Facebook spelling checker to make it seem like they know English. We have a fairly strong suspicion such modern singers without autotune would sound like a Tennessee bullfrog.
(Ed: at least the Tennessee bullfrog is on-pitch!)
Good point, lovely Satchmo.
The Tennessee bullfrog has to be on-pitch or he won't attract any female bullfrogs so you damn sure bet he will be on-pitch and (gasp) he won't use autotune to get there.
Jerry had a hell of a time with his death because he was dying from the moment he got the diagnosis and this cost him almost all of the joy he might have felt before the end. While getting so sick is misery and hellish, it is intermixed with joyfulness and appreciation of life sometimes. His partner, when last seen, was out in the Philippines helping people set up computer systems and not as any type of corporate effort, it was something he felt he could do.
Mystery Lady was not there for whatever reason but I saw Jerry not long before he died and he was agonizing from it and his death came hard. Maybe people think my intense animosity toward the Reagans is a simple political construct for my own amusement but it's not true as I have watched a man die from their willful ignorance and hypocrisy regarding the AIDS epidemic in which they did not one damn thing but instead launched the War on Drugs which capriciously killed many more people, quite often without rhyme or reason.
For you, Jerry, from the Mystery Lady.
Silas only did the background support for orchestration, etc. He did not play the instruments for this one but rather used a MIDI track and did his magic to it. Silas did not mind at all being the band for Mystery Lady although sometimes he could get a bit shirty about too many rehearsals of the song but the reason for them is one we immediately know: she wanted it to be as perfect as she could make it for him.
No comments:
Post a Comment