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Rock n Roll Reactionary Blues redux I MAY have posted this previously but can't recall...anyway this is a faster version if nothing else. A little joke song I wrote, breaking as many rules as I could along the way, in response to someone who was a stickler for musical rules. I resurrected it and attempted to kick it up a notch with Scott C on lead guitar but it proved to be not really worth the effort so I sped it up and left the original BIAB solo & drums tracks in place just to call it done. Scott did some lovely work but I didn't want to torture him further. Laid Back Blues style 570 Guitar Slide Solist Blues Monday Swing Real Drums Nashville 128 My Squire through a Marshall for the rhythm guitars and a Vantage bass. Recorded & mixed in Reaper. Lyrics... Picasso reassembled Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, He'll follow the PreRaphaelite script, Seurate has agree to join the dots, To save himself from being whipped. Derain & Matisse have promised, That they'll always colour by the numbers. While Salvador Dali committed to keep it real, As a street cred rumbler. I know, I taken advantages And I haven't paid my dues. Now I've been painted into a corner, With the rock n roll reactionary blues. Frank Lloyd Wright, Has stopped the waters falling, He realized apartment blocks were calling. Piet Mondrian has started to using the circle, Primary colours squared wasn't the right vehicle. David Hockney will reject the pile of cash, He’s heartily embarrassed at making such a splash. Jackie Pollock has taken on acting roles, Since he realized the mistake that was Blue Poles. CHORUS Andy Pandy Warhol has given up his stint, And he's now making wallpaper in his famous screen print. Poor Antoni Gaudi can't work out what to be, He recognized his buildings belonged beneath the sea. Jorn Utzon's orange is being reassembled as we speak, Can’t have a house of opera that doesn't reach the peak. Henry Moore's no more - he couldn't take the pace, He couldn't make a sculpture with a recognizable face. CHORUS Poor Orson Welles: poor Orson, He’s swollen: fat. He's bloated and forlorn, That is that. Someone nicked, his little Rosebud. When he, foolishly, Left it on the lawn. CHORUS
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Hi Rayc nice tune very different but engaging great choice of real tracks really good mix thanks for sharing Eric
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Cool sounding tune Ray! Love the little unexpected chord changes. They really keep the interest level up throughout! Enjoyed it! T
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Love this tune. Love the chord changes. Excellent vocal Ray
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ray,
A very clever write. You had me Googling a number of people. An education.
Good tracks. Good vocal. Well mixed.
I thought everything worked.
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Hello Ray ...
Your lyrics are always thought-provoking. Nothin' wrong with that. Nice arrangement with some surprising but cool chord changes. And like Floyd, I had to look up a couple names. Interesting all the way through. Cool! Happy New Year ...
Alan
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Very clever and interesting lyric. I'd say that was a unique take on the blues.
Nice work.
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Hi Ray, well, it will take some time and a lot of googling until I really get every line of that song. But as far as I've understood it by now, it's most interesting and funny. Good backing track, good guitar-playing and the absoloutely appropriate way of singing the tune. Very enjoyable. All the best to you and yours for 2021,stay safe, Stefan PS: Your songs (and comments, too) mostly expand my lexicon of the English languiage. Started with the post in which I learned that the verb 'to speed up' hass a regular AND an irregular past tense form.... 
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I just remember seeing this yesterday and reading lyrics, now I had to fish for it to end of the second page... Ray, Super tune! Lyrics, performance everything works very well. Vocals are a little distant, but very clear. I can see musical perfectionists grinding their teeth  Fun stuff. You should do more tunes, like this beauty. Thank you for sharing. Misha.
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As Arte Johnson would say "Very interesting"!
I really liked your vocal on this one, outstanding. Great backing tracks and an excellent mix. One question, how did you come up with those lyrics? They are great!
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Well now!
That's a unique little ditty!
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As Arte Johnson would say "Very interesting"!
I really liked your vocal on this one, outstanding. Great backing tracks and an excellent mix. One question, how did you come up with those lyrics? They are great! Mario, "Very interesting - but STUPID!" was often the quote. Lyrics...well a chap went absolutely mental at me on line about not returning to the root and for ignoring all of "the rules" so I thought I'd break an whole pile of them in response. As you can hear I don't really follow a proper 12 bar format, I make a silly key change..I had some more bizarre stuff in there like disharmonies etc but tamed it after a while. Lyrically I was reminded of the squillions of great artists and musicians/composers who broke old rules to create new ones etc. and pulled a few visual artists from my scone...I studied art & art history in high school & teachers' college so I was luck enough to have an instant list of suspects. The song wrote itself really.
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I'm amazed you could work all those artists into a song like that. That is not only very cleaver but also very good writing. That alone give you high marks in my book, but the song is good apart from that. The band got it too. Good work.
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Hi Ray
I also studied art and art history in high school, so it was lots of fun hearing you roll out those familiar names in a series of clever and amusing lines. Found the non traditional take on the blues very engaging. Your vocal reminded me a little bit of Jonathan Richman when he fronted the modern lovers, probably helped by the fact that they recorded a song called Pablo Picasso.
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Hi Ray
I also studied art and art history in high school, so it was lots of fun hearing you roll out those familiar names in a series of clever and amusing lines. Found the non traditional take on the blues very engaging. Your vocal reminded me a little bit of Jonathan Richman when he fronted the modern lovers, probably helped by the fact that they recorded a song called Pablo Picasso.
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Leon Thanks Leon, I saw JR in Sydney when he did his 1st solo tour. A hero for at least two of his musical phases if not all.
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Really cool vibe Ray!! Good rule breaking!! Like the sound of your vocal and the mix works really well! Enjoyed!! Take care. Greg
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