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Diary Of A Taxicab Driver (I Gave The Devil A Ride
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A bizarre (new)'urban folk tale' about a financially desperate cabbie, and his 'hellacious' fare. Would you SELL YOUR SOUL just to get by?!
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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.
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Genre
Podcasts Stories
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1989, 2007
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April 28, 2007
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MP3 6.6 MB 128 kbps 7:11
Story behind the song
This song, not a single but popular to whoever I played the cassette for, is one of my 'Recitals': A spoken word story set to music. At first, there were NO LYRICS---but the 'idea' came real quick, thanks in part to the 'radio interference' on the track (and, it's REAL, by the way). Instead of just erasing and doing the whole thing ALL OVER AGAIN (this was take 3 when the interference hit), I said to myself "F*** it--let me keep it!", and I wound up writing the story AROUND it!! (This track, and "Possessed" were in the same sessions--and the SAME Radio Station, and SAME Cab Driver/Dispatcher are heard over these tracks.) It may have been the 'space-music' that really got the cab driver, because halfway thru the track, you can hear him say something jazzy and whistle. All the more reason to KEEP the track as is. Now, Lyrically: The song title says it all. It's the DIARY of a Cab Driver (a character named "Tim Sears"), and in a couple of entries, he writes about a very strange and bossy passenger he picks up ("He was tall and RED and looked kinda funny--but I ain't care, just as long as he had MONEY!"). And, when our desperate cabbie REALIZES who this 'fare' really was, it's TOO LATE---he as an 'appointment' with that same 'fare' in "50 Years". Sorry fans, like I told folks in '87, I'll tell you NOW: NO SEQUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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