Samaritan Snare
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waitingmanStrange Things That Only Ever Seem To Happen To Me #457,238,419
Walking into a little suburban shopping court this afternoon to get a late lunch, a rather large & obviously somewhat lame woman waved for my attention & asked me to help her walk to the bus stop about 150 metres away. I was in no particular hurry, so agreed... & for the next ten minutes as we inched our way to her destination I heard about how she'd nearly died giving birth, had a series of strokes & only learned to walk again a day before her infant son, how she only had one functioning leg & arm, her sciatica, that her two kids wanted to be scientists but she didn't care what field they were studying, only that they want to be scientists, how her friend had lost $270 through a hole in her jacket & had another $170 confiscated by the police, who'd better look out for her & how she was going to use her disability taxi vouchers to bribe a driver to give her his pack of cigarettes because she's a legend... but she had to get the right driver
How do they find me??
Walking into a little suburban shopping court this afternoon to get a late lunch, a rather large & obviously somewhat lame woman waved for my attention & asked me to help her walk to the bus stop about 150 metres away. I was in no particular hurry, so agreed... & for the next ten minutes as we inched our way to her destination I heard about how she'd nearly died giving birth, had a series of strokes & only learned to walk again a day before her infant son, how she only had one functioning leg & arm, her sciatica, that her two kids wanted to be scientists but she didn't care what field they were studying, only that they want to be scientists, how her friend had lost $270 through a hole in her jacket & had another $170 confiscated by the police, who'd better look out for her & how she was going to use her disability taxi vouchers to bribe a driver to give her his pack of cigarettes because she's a legend... but she had to get the right driver
How do they find me??
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Date: 2013-04-10 09:28 am (UTC)However, I'm here to ask a favour. A friend has a question about what sort of Prog Rock to sing and play when auditioning for a band. I thought it might be something you would know about. Would you?
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Date: 2013-04-10 10:27 pm (UTC)Looking to sing & play at the same time? Then something relatively simple from the much-maligned genre... 'Lucky Man' from the first Emerson, Lake & Palmer album, or 'And You And I' by Yes... though maybe not all of it... it's about 10 minutes long!
Something a bit heavier? '46 & 2' by Tool... or delve into Dream Theater if you dare (or can stand the overblown virtuosity & pretension). Maybe a version of 'No Quarter' by Led Zeppelin ~ not strictly Prog, but not exactly rock'n'roll either
If you're just singing & the band is relatively together, test them out with '21st Century Schizoid Man' by King Crimson... & make sure they can all play the fast parts in unison... or try 'In The Cage' by Genesis to make the keyboard player sweat a little
All Prog bands need something a little ridiculous in instrumentation ~ Jon Anderson's harp, Ian Anderson (no relation) playing flute on one leg (maybe it's something about the surname Anderson), Rick Wakeman's caped costumes or Keith Emerson's knives-out- approach to the Hammond organ... So maybe do a hurdy-gurdy rendition of 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' to stand out from the crowd...