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In a world gone bad, what ever happened to the good? Lots of 'villians', but no 'heroes'?!
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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.
Song Info
Genre
Electronic Dance
Charts
Peak #602
Peak in subgenre #57
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1984, 2007
Uploaded
May 26, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.0 MB 128 kbps 6:32
Story behind the song
The Great Big AFTER-THOUGHT!! "Superhero" was NOT part of the original album configuration--it wasn't even on the 'copyright cassette' I registered in August, 1984. There was only supposed to be ONE Song on Side Two of the Album-Cassette (the 'Title Track', itself--all 20 minutes and some change of it!)---- but it was a CASSETTE, not a Vinyl 12-inch LP (and at 30 Minutes per side, there was plenty of room), so, what the hell. In the end, Side B of the final Cassette-Album master topped-out at nearly 28 minutes (whole album: about 57 minutes!!). Also, it felt better closing the whole thing on a upbeat note, instead of dour nearly half-hour-long instrumental experiment. Finally, in November of 1984, "Superhero"/"Terry Greene" became the SECOND cassette single from "The Secrets Of The Cosmos"---- supplanting "Bullshit Alley (The Ghetto)" as the possible choice for the second single. ("B.S. Alley" finally got it's DUE in 1990 as the B-Side to the original "Alladin's Groove" cassette-single.) Finally, "Superhero" was the THIRD track to be vocally re-recorded in '89. It sounded alright--- 'til the second half, when it became kinda tame compared to the wildness in the original version--which is the one we have here.
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