It was 1995, I had already acquired my trusty Alesis SR-16 "Dr No" but not hooked it up in stereo yet on my 4-track cassette recorder.

This track is one of the more fun I made in those days, thought I'd share it here. For the occasion, I properly mixed and mastered it in such a way to keep it's original character intact as much as possible. I did put *some* fancy effect to stereoize the vocals a little, and there is a subtle stereo reverb on the drums.. Things like that, but that's just to make it palatable for the modern crowd. This is after all an original recording, no edits, no overdubs.

Thinking about putting an entire 'legacies' album together. Would anyone be interested in that?

The very mature lyrics:

Salvation song
Connect me if I'm wrong
Me I am cracked, broken and torn
Haven't been clean ever since I was born

But I don't bear much pain
I'm not gonna jump no train
Every single hour every single day
Guess life is just a game

Some say I am insane
Some say I am just the same
As all them youth rebel rabble rebel rabble
Well I know better but you won't hear me tell
Everyone lives his own little hell
Let them turn around in their own smell
I let them feel bad if they let me feel well
It be alright with me

I know I only live to be
I know this is all you can see
I live to be just like the trees
And the flowers and the bees

Some say I am insane
Some say I am just the same
As all them you rebel rabble rebel rabble
Let live through their own hell
Let them live with their own smell

Salvation

Salvation song
Connect me if I'm wrong
Me I am cracked broken and torn
Haven't been clean ever since I was born

Some say salvation
Everyone, everyone...
Rebel rabble rebel rabble
Loser! Loser!

noitavlaS

Salvation Song

It's just what you were thinking, isn't it?

Brain Eraser

I bought this children's guitar at GoodWill for less than $15... I put $6 worth of good nylon strings on it.  And then I just played it.  Maybe I'm out of line... especially since I set the levels too high when recording it.  But there's something about this recording: I guess beauty is in the ear of the beholder...

Children's Goodwill Nylon Guitar W Levels Too Hot

For everyone who wants change. This one will get you going thats for sure. 
For the new Generation, Don't be afraid... 

Johnny

New Generation

My friend Louie died recently. We played together in a band called The Loose Diamonds. He was a lovely man and a living work of art.

https://pitchfork.com/news/king-louie-bankston-louisiana-garage-rock-mainstay-of-the-exploding-hearts-dies-at-49/

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t looking half as wide
Loose diamonds in the sky
Fall like teardrops from my eyes
As the rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

There was a man from Harahan who like an angel did sing
And he sure knew just how to pop a guitar string 
And though he often played the clown 
When the crowds would gather ‘round
Those in the know know that Louie was a king

It was reputed that he’d written the perfect song
A crystal blue confection coming in at 2 minutes and 27 seconds long
But the world heeded not
Rock n roll was an afterthought 
The king had left long before his kingdom had come

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t shining half as bright
Loose diamonds in the sky
Like teardrops from my eyes
As the rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

He once went to Whole Foods because he was not feeling well
He returned with five jars of pickles and a story to tell
The hippie cashier it seems 
Had seen his death in her dreams 
So we all laughed and raised five jars of pickle juice to his health

Sure, maybe he all wasn’t saintly and perfect 
But I tend to think the rock n roll was worth it
He had some dirty parts
He left some haunted hearts
But who amongst us isn’t tainted in this circus?

Like a feeling never felt
Like the King of Diamonds never dealt
Like a legend that may never be
Louie Bankston RIP

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
Now the angel’s share ain’t enough to fly a kite
Stardust in the sky
Diamonds in my eyes
The rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

Now that you have forsaken this fallow land 
Our hopes are dashed that you ever will reunite your one man band
And though my tongue may be planted in my cheek 
It is with great reverence that I do speak 
Of the King of Diamonds

Love, 
Your biggest fan

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t looking half as wide
Loose diamonds in the sky
Like teardrops in my eyes
The rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

A pariah, a piranha, a superstar
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Like a diamond in the sky
Like a diamond in the sky

Like a diamond

King Of Diamonds

Ghost Train

Mark Combs - Composition, Sound Design, Main Mix https://soundcloud.com/markcombs-928282858?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Robert Grigg - Guitar https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Brian Butts - Guitar

Grigg / Butts / Combstead - Waste Deep

adieu

Same Planet & The Final Straight Line - Special Cecilia & Pier WILL

Il m'a été suggéré d'associer "The Final Straight Line" à un poème, le temps a passé et j'ai pris un texte "Same Planet" chanté par Cecilia.
Bonne écoute !
Nous ne prenons pas assez soin de notre belle et unique planète et si nous ne faisons pas attention, nous risquons de disparaître. Toutes les guerres doivent être bannies de notre monde ! Rien n'est perdu car "Un voyage de mille lieues commence toujours par un premier pas" - Lao-Tseu.

It was suggested to me to associate "The Final Straight Line" with a poem, time passed and I took a text "Same Planet" sung by Cecilia.
Enjoy listening !
We are not taking enough care of our beautiful and unique planet and if we are not careful, we risk disappearing. All wars must be banned from our world! Nothing is lost because "A journey of a thousand miles always begins with a first step" - Lao-Tseu.

(Music By Pier WILL)
- https://soundcloud.com/pier-will
(Lyrics-vocals By Special Cecilia) 
- https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia
- https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/tracks
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, MSI, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space
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MANY THANKS Cecilia - ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

LYRICS
TRIBAL WARS WE SEE ENOUGH
TRIBAL WARS WE NO WANT NO MORE.....

WE ALL LIVING ON A SAME PLANET...

WANT EVERYBODY TO BE HAPPY
STOP FUSS & FIGHTING

WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERS
UNITE OUR LIGHTS
TO TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS

WE CAN BUILD UP TOGETHER

WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERS
UNITE OUR LIGHTS
TO TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS

TRIBAL WARS WE SEE ENOUGH
TRIBAL WARS WE NO WANT NO MORE.....

APPRECIATE WHAT WE GOT YET

WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERS
UNITE OUR LIGHTS
TO TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS

THERE IS STILL WAY TO GO FOR A BETTER FUTURE
DON'T STOP NOW
KEEP GOING FORWARD
WE CAN BE GREATER
WITH TIME EVOLVING EVOLVING

WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERS
UNITE OUR LIGHTS
TO TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS

TRIBAL WARS WE SEE ENOUGH
TRIBAL WARS WE NO WANT NO MORE.....
WE ALL LIVING ON A SAME PLANET...

Same Planet & The Final Straight Line - Special Cecilia & Pier WILL - ❤️Love, 

Same Planet & The Final Straight Line - Special Cecilia & Pier WILL - ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

いーやーさーさぁ / yi Ya Sa Sa

OPC is 
Lliam Steel string, voc, Malcolm - Nylon string, voc, 
John - Bass, Beva - percussion
Recorded live to 2-track

The waters of Long Island Sound  were home and life to me
I'd fish on gentle buoyant swells rake oyster from the sea
clams I'd dig from the muddy shore    where kingfishers were angling
A seaweed coast on the Island of Shells   called Seawahakie.

And you can see the sun sparkle on the water
waters that give life to everything around
The marsh lands and bays are a heritage that nurtures
the deep quiet waters of the Long Island sound.

This arm of the Atlantic Ocean  glaciers dug 20 miles wide
The Quinipiac, Connecticut, and  Housatonic  flow into its tides
From the river called East to Orient Point;  110 as the seagull flies
For 5,000 years   cared for by the Delaware tribe.

Now the harbors are becoming    lifeless liquid poison
Our wastes breed bacteria    which suck up the oxygen
Toxics dumped by industry or plastic dropped by one person
It's a life supporting body    or a dead sea question

My life is filled with gull cries and   a constant muffled pounding swoosh
Music that is passed by    in a modern rush and push
Don't forget how we're dependent  on the health of plants and fish
If we take care of the waters    rejoicing in its gifts.

OPC - Deep Quiet Waters / Two Headed Calf

Lliam Greguez is a macro ice photographer who captures freezing moments of a mountain stream and a creative arts therapist who, before C-19, used music to engage chronically ill children in five hospitals around New York City.

He also unlooses his experimental tendencies with five albums - a pair of Acoustic, a pair of Electric, and one Ambient. 

The acoustics are: Other People’s Children in English and La Yola in Spanish, the latter written by Dominican artist Luis Días. Each showcase uptempo acoustic music that could be labeled anti-pop with a unique essence accompanied by deliberative lyrics.

Then the two rock albums also contain one by Luis Días and one by the trio "Any of Several Weasels" reveling in the electric guitar sound. Luis' album is driven by Caribbean rhythms, while AoSW fuses punk and progressive.

Meanwhile, the "Look of Utter Disbelief" explores synth, sampling, and guitar improvisations.

Be sure to check out Lliam's website for a taste of his ice photography and stories from working with hospitalized children.

OPC - Deep Quiet Waters / Two Headed Calf

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