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funky sax and rap I orig. wrote in 1980, this vers. recorded in '88--always a crowd fave, inspired by The Prince by Machiavelli
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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.]
Song Info
Genre
Rock Rock n Roll
Charts
Peak #62
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
T. Ray Larsen
Rights
T. Ray Larsen
Uploaded
February 03, 2011
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MP3
MP3 4.8 MB 128 kbps 5:15
Story behind the song
funky sax and rap I orig. wrote in 1980, this vers. recorded in '88--always a crowd fave, inspired by The Prince by Machiavelli...I first recorded this in 1980 on a cheap tape deck, bongo drums and toy air organ .. Then again with some friends in fledgling band--all in Davis, Calif. ... Then the song became a staple crowd fave/encore at live shows 82-83 with my band Innernational Man ... Then recorded again with post IM band "The Tremors" .... in a home studio .... Then recorded at Pegasus Studios in Tall. Fl, with all new players...the sax guy, heh a local black short muscley policeman .. and good ol' Steve Taff on guitar... me on keyboards, vocals ... most folk misunderstand the song .. thinking its a drug song... but when I wrote it, I actually, just smoked an old fashioned tobacco pipe... age 19 ... reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli ... and it is nominally too about a sort of messianic political type in the coming era...
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butterfly lady
Feb 03, 2011
What a hot, jazzy song! Whew! I always thought it was about a tobacco pipe.