Name: Terry Greene
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Channel: Lawrence Wise
Description: "Terry Greene" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. 'Terry Greene' is a teenager who (thru the neighborhood pusher)discovers the wonders of his 'namesake'-- only, we call it 'reefer', 'weed', 'grass'.....

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'Terry Greene' is a teenager who (thru the neighborhood pusher)discovers the wonders of his 'namesake'-- only, we call it 'reefer', 'weed', 'grass'.....

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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS

An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.

Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Psychedelic Rock

Charts

Peak #885

Peak in subgenre #28

Author

Lawrence Wise

Rights

1984, 2007

Uploaded

May 26, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:52

Story behind the song

As a song, "Terry Greene" is one of the LOUDEST Tracks I ever recorded.  It's also one of the few times you'd hear something akin to a "LIVE" sound from me (both tracks were done via 'aircheck'---literally into a free-standing tape recorder!).  Using the 'Piano/Guitar' mode (and with the exception of the percussion, NOTHING ELSE!), I shot the keyboard thru a portable 15-watt amp (the amp was only 8 inches tall!), turned that little piece of shit up to 10--and the treble on middle, and had the tape recorder way on the other end of the room.

Vocally, the background vocals were shouted into a mic, but coming out of my much larger 4-speaker bass/PA amp, at the same time as the music.  The Lead Vocal was done in the same fashion, but was much louder, so when I did the mix, it came out totally rambunctious! 

Also, it works, because the song IS about a teenager discovering marijuanna for the first time, and his pusher giving the sales pitch (to which our 'hero' doesn't seem to be listening).

Then, there's that chorus which shows how seductive ANY addiction REALLY IS:

"If you decide to take a puff,
You won't just where you've been.
And if it makes you feel good,
All you have to do is come back again."

Of course, you and I know that I'm only 'preaching to the choir' regarding THEY WHO GET HIGH.

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