There are currently five songs set, not counting "The Sanctuary Song" nor "Andromeda Weeps," for the "Ride the Dragon" CD and those five run out to forty-four minutes.
"The Girl Who Would Be Lavender"
"The Tiger and the Monkey"
"Celebration of Circe Broom"
"Ride the Dragon - Live"
"Waiting on a Train"
The Girl is about Boudika, Queen of the Iceni, who rose up with her tribe in ancient Britain against the occupying Romans. She killed many, many Romans but eventually they killed her back and this is the last battle.
The Tiger is a love story between a monkey and a tiger and this has clear difficulties when monkeys are usually not more than a food source for tigers.
The first two are much softer than the others but presenting only one style isn't accurate about Silas or all that entertaining, for that matter.
Celebration one runs nine minutes and was live for the wake for Circe. The song has huge personal significance but maybe not so much for the CD. This one is questionable for keeping.
Ride is a fifteen-minute version of the song and there's some blistering guitar in it with good attitude about dragon riding but that's an exceedingly long song. It's a jam tune but it's not guitar alone because I just had to go for some keyboard lead as well. The song is available now for free listen / paid download on the sixtyone.
This one is definitely rock because it doesn't screw around with any poofy modulation; when it wants to change keys, it just goes. This one is definitely Bad Silas but this guy plays a whole lot better than that guy did. Mostly the Galaxy Guitar likes to be beautiful but this one is made to be played loud and she brings out all the Boudika whoop-ass she's got (i.e. a lot).
Note: rats ... I put an applause track on it for laughs and forgot to remove it. Ah well, it's on the stream now ... no changing it (larfs).
Waiting is a live version of the song and this time it's a more electric version but it's the same thinking of waiting for a train even when you know she probably will not be on it.
"The Sanctuary Song" will be near the end of the playlist on the CD because it says to 'leave all that behind' and come on this way. It runs eight to ten minutes so kicking the Celebration and adding this won't change the CD run-time by more than a couple of minutes.
"Andromeda Weeps" probably goes about eight to ten minutes as well and that brings it out to about fifty-five minutes but that's not enough to release yet because a CD is good for eighty minutes. This is not a problem, it's only a matter of planning.
Update: after listening to "Ride the Dragon" a couple of times on the sixtyone, it's definitely the one to close the CD. It was uploaded at 256K and that's about as good as it gets for MP3. Listening is free and it's the whole thing, not a short sample from the front of the song.
"The Girl Who Would Be Lavender"
"The Tiger and the Monkey"
"Celebration of Circe Broom"
"Ride the Dragon - Live"
"Waiting on a Train"
The Girl is about Boudika, Queen of the Iceni, who rose up with her tribe in ancient Britain against the occupying Romans. She killed many, many Romans but eventually they killed her back and this is the last battle.
The Tiger is a love story between a monkey and a tiger and this has clear difficulties when monkeys are usually not more than a food source for tigers.
The first two are much softer than the others but presenting only one style isn't accurate about Silas or all that entertaining, for that matter.
Celebration one runs nine minutes and was live for the wake for Circe. The song has huge personal significance but maybe not so much for the CD. This one is questionable for keeping.
Ride is a fifteen-minute version of the song and there's some blistering guitar in it with good attitude about dragon riding but that's an exceedingly long song. It's a jam tune but it's not guitar alone because I just had to go for some keyboard lead as well. The song is available now for free listen / paid download on the sixtyone.
This one is definitely rock because it doesn't screw around with any poofy modulation; when it wants to change keys, it just goes. This one is definitely Bad Silas but this guy plays a whole lot better than that guy did. Mostly the Galaxy Guitar likes to be beautiful but this one is made to be played loud and she brings out all the Boudika whoop-ass she's got (i.e. a lot).
Note: rats ... I put an applause track on it for laughs and forgot to remove it. Ah well, it's on the stream now ... no changing it (larfs).
Waiting is a live version of the song and this time it's a more electric version but it's the same thinking of waiting for a train even when you know she probably will not be on it.
"The Sanctuary Song" will be near the end of the playlist on the CD because it says to 'leave all that behind' and come on this way. It runs eight to ten minutes so kicking the Celebration and adding this won't change the CD run-time by more than a couple of minutes.
"Andromeda Weeps" probably goes about eight to ten minutes as well and that brings it out to about fifty-five minutes but that's not enough to release yet because a CD is good for eighty minutes. This is not a problem, it's only a matter of planning.
Update: after listening to "Ride the Dragon" a couple of times on the sixtyone, it's definitely the one to close the CD. It was uploaded at 256K and that's about as good as it gets for MP3. Listening is free and it's the whole thing, not a short sample from the front of the song.
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