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Supernatural Fire
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piano/guitar rock/harmony recorded in a big cavernous natural reverb room with stone walls 50ft high and wide, Butch Trucks behind the desk, FL circa 1988
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Eclectic before eclectic was cooool... i fancy Bowie, Eno, Rundgren, Hendrix, Prince, TDN, Zappa, Sinatra, and more-but speaks now to the would-be apocalyptic t
I have been writing songs since age 7 (first song, walking home from school was "It's God's Fault".) Never stopped writing and as soon as possible recording on anything I could get my hands on. Dad's Sony reel-to-reel, cassette recorders, ping-ponging to achieve semblance of multitracking. Then proper 4-track machines, then 8, then 16, then digital (early 80s) then in million dollar studios where I managed too often to fill 100 tracks ON TAPE (on SSL consoles, Neve) and everything in between. Have written thousands of songs, recorded probably about 400 of them. Have performed about 600 live shows. Made a few music videos. Always still writing, performing, and recording. [fun fact, my youngest son is one of the top songwriters in the music biz, world. Now if I could just catch a break, lol, that would be great! Oh well. So it goes.]
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Rock Rock n Roll
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Peak #74
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
T. Ray Larsen
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T. Ray Larsen
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February 11, 2011
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piano/guitar rock/harmony recorded in a big cavernous natural reverb room with stone walls 50ft high and wide, Butch Trucks behind the desk, FL circa 1988...I actually wrote this song on my wife's (then girlfriend) years before at her moms house in 1983, one day there alone for some reason... remember it well.. It's about .. well, supernatural fire and broken dreams, yet rising, recovering again towards the eternal fire which transcends all . . . . i wrote it at one sitting, afternoon sun shining through the windows... grand piano.. me plunking and wailing away... It was several years later to finally record it .. with the Tallahassee band "911" . . . good ol' Steve Taff on guitar, Perry on drums.. and the Paul McCartney look alike on bass... just the four of us basically playing this live and then overdubbing the vocals.. I remember Butch skeptical that I could double the lead vox in one pass... but I did.. the song having long been in my head, rehearsed ... .. . I played original piano on it plus strings (synth) .. and .. some guy I hired from ... I think FL St. Univ... some professor.. an African American fellow who filled out the piano parts.. can't remember his name... so long ago ....
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