Another "lyric improve exercise" from the stage of the The Ivory. Made lyrics up as I performed. Really shows in this song because a couple times I start to run out of guitar before I'm out of words. Anyway, this one is dedicated to all my friends. Basically, just means if something is "right" and its' from "your heart", no matter how impossible it seems, you can do it! I know you can do it! Peace, Rick
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Nothing We Can't Do

I started to write a song called "Darwin Says", I was improvising and only got part way through it. I was playing an AIDS RESEARCH BENEFIT, @ Friends Coffee House later that night w/ J. Sherman. When we got there I ran through the chords real quick and asked J. if she wanted to wing it with me. She said "yep". So we started playing it about 4 songs into the set. I had read an article about the incredible polarization of wealth that seems to be the hallmark of neo-capitalism and the song took a turn as we played live and I started going on a rant about equality. I played Tak and sang. J. played a Fender Bullet w/ a short, through a tiny Park Amp that was mic'd. And "Faith No More" was born. When I play, there is only one take. Especially something like this -(i.e., Live). I feel there are no accidents. If you hit a note that sounds strange? It happened for a reason - a musical footprint in the sand. This song is my question to the Aristocratic 2% - How and when did you lose your heart? Or, were you just born without one?  ( makes sense seeing as 86% of all wealth is inherited). 

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A song from the heroin wars.
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Can't Take You Half-Way

Made this up at a time when I was thinking about spirituality. It dawned on me that Organized Religion didn't have a spiritual component. My conclusion was religion, without spirituality, was just a bunch of psychological manure. Good as a fertilizer for growing individuals who had a need to be controlled and for providing excuses for " bank account Christians" and moralizing idiots. Song is a one take / improv and very rough. You either love it or hate it. 

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Improvisational lyrical piece as I played Tak. Added Acoustic lead after. Is a song that strives to acknowledge reality  - while retaining the sense that all is surreal.
Photo by Magnus Oxygene

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Life is fragile. One should never be so bold as to presume they no the limits of another's fragility. Callous miscalculations  can lead to a loss of beauty and innocence that is irreplaceable. Allie is lost until we can catch up with her. Those who left her broken and irreparable - may you be stuck here forever.

Hey Allie

Thinking about gratitude. This is a goofy little song I improvised on stage at a Concert at The Puppet House. Two weeks prior I was told it was pretty certain I had throat cancer and they wanted to take me straight from the ENT's to the Hospital. I refused , saying " I have a sold out concert in two weeks." The Dr. was not happy. I promised him I'd check in after the concert . Yo can hear the throat thing in the vocals. But a month later when I cheked back the lesions were gone and the growths had lost their ridges and begun to shrink 4 weeks later there was just faint white dots. Another month and the chart said "spontaneous healing - can not be explained." But it is a song about two folks that society might have thrown away but manage to find magic in each other. Kind of fitting for Thanksgiving. No matter how little you have there are so many things you can find to be grateful for!

Everything Is Just Fine

Just a do nothing hang around and wait for the Bird Flu  - or some other man-made plague to come take us away.

Bird Flu

Love is all fueled by dependency or desire and plays out in an arena of chaos and confusion!

Wishful Thinking

One of the wackier songs I improvised. I think I played it in between Dogs In The Moonlight and Curse. I just was thinking about the Bird Flu, had been dreaming about birds, like the one in this picture, and next you know I was making this thing up in front of a theater full of people. Left it on the recording because I think it is one mean acoustic guitar lead!

This song was written in the 1980's. This version was 1989 , Friends Coffee House Version.The lyrics were improvised in Concert. Rick used a rented Fender Acoustic. Jen a Fender Bullet w/ a short. We each played through a $29 Honeytone Amp that was mic'd through the House System. What this song lacks in quality it makes up for it in spirit!

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