Name the parts/pieces, you want to play/do in any piece of music that you love dearly ... and it only applies if you love it passionately ... no fan stuff please ...

 

And with that, here are, the most favoritist momentissimos, for me when I am needing some inspiration ... I already have drum sticks in my car so I can drive drumming on the steering wheel, but some of the others are more challenging.

 

This is more fun, if you go check out that piece, on the Internet or what not, so you can get a better idea of what is going on. The challenge is ... you GOTTA go listen to the bits and pieces, if you haven't already! I will definitly check out the ones you post.

 

Not in any order, btw!

 

- Violin and have the duet with Weinzierl - Apocaliptyc Bore - Vive La Trance - AD2
- Vocals in Mozambique - Vive La Trance - AD2 (I'm Portuguese and that one makes sense!)
- Werner Herzog walking into Florian's closets and inventing a movie out of a piece of music!
- Drummer - Side 2 of Gong's You on the LP
- Bass Guitar - Terje Rypdal and David Darling's Eos album.
- Drummer - Any version of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. The longer the better.
- Lead guitar - Amore - Beauty - Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Drummer and arrangement - Heartbeat - Heartbeat - Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Strings/Violins - El Greco - Vangelis (specially for the piece with the soprano)
- Singer and Lead guitar - A Way Out - Out of Water - Peter Hammill
- Bass Player - Bullerias and opening sequence for Carmen's Fandangos in Space
- Lead guitar - Ball and Chain - JJ with Big Brother and the Holding Company (how can anyone resist such a massive singer? And the guitarist that showed Fripp how to hack it!)
- Piano - The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett
- Conductor - No Caipira - Egberto Gismonti (I can't imagine playing any of that!)
- Groupie/Stagehand/Floor Sweeper and total idiot over the music - Sebastian in Traum - Audentity - Klaus Schulze
- Poet/syncopated words - Dark Clouds, No Rain - Djam Karet (I have 3 poems written for it already, btw)
- Bass Guitar with Mani Neumeier/Guru Guru and a total new piece/experiment. No acid required or needed! And sound effects and fun is a must Mani ... no excuses! Hard to let that sunshine pass us by, though!

 

I probably have more moments that I would love to be a part of ... like I wanna do the vocals in "Steppenwolf" for Hawkwind.

Ohhh ... you fudger ... I totally forgot "Our Song" ... which of course is the theme song for this board!

 

So progressive and satisfying that few of us will listen to it!

 

AND ... (even more important for those DSOTM fans!) ... there is that one song in that album about breathing the air ... which gives a different concept and idea to a more famous piece a year or two later! And it would render that Hollywood movie idea really stupid and forgotten!

 

In Ron Geesin's album "Right Through" there is a whole sequence of doors opening and closing with echo effects and such and Guy Guden in Santa Barbara one time did a wonderful skit about "No Exit" with it ... and Jean Paul Sartre to this day is upset that he was upstaged! ... I can't find the right door! ...

 

Can't you see I'm busy engaged in composition? (... line from one of Ron Geesin's albums ... )

 

More moments of euphoria:

 

- The sound/Noise on the climax on Wizard/True Star - Todd Rundgren (that's the one just before "can't you think of anything but sex?")

- Be in the studio with the girl going crazy on Cottonwood Hill - Brainticket (now you can say thinking about sex!)

- Live in an apartment building for a week or two where Syd, Kevin, Robert, Daevid, Allen, Burroughs, and many others were ... obviously discussing the merits of bullsh*t, because there is no sense talking about art or music!

- Spend a week inside the Magic Theater. Ohhh dang, it is not a rock music reference!

- Take a week's worth of classes on the bass guitar from Holger Czukay ... even today!

- Join "Spirit" for another inspired stage version of the 12 Dreams. And cry during "Nature's Way".

- Find a big church, invite Tangerine Dream, close the doors, and this is a private concert! ... and we will NOT be playing a Luis Bunuel film!

- I wanna be that voice in M. Labat's M. Frogg album that is saying ... and screaming ... yeah .. you know what!

- Call up Lothar Meid and tell him that we're going to re-record 18Karat Gold's All Bums, and that we're releasing "If My Guru Would Know" as a single in England and America --- BUT -- we're going to rename it ... "If My Queen Would Know" ... even though it is 20 years after the New Age Bullsh*t, it would still sound fun and good, and get the Queen a laugh! Does she ever laugh? And sadly ... no ... this would not be a Freddie moment, even though he deserves one!

 

And lastly ... the day before I go ... I want a couple of hours of Manuel, Klaus, and the Ash Ra Tempel folks, with the ladies too ... to create another dream for romantic idiots! Dope will be optional, of course, but probably not necessary. We will call it ... "The Cosmic Goodbye" ! I'm sure there will be incense and flowers all over the place!

 

Thank you

 

 

 

Oh my gawd ... give Steve Miller a run for his Cheeseburger!

 

A good friend of mine was a drummer and his main inspiration was Carl Palmer. He had a full Ludwig set with 8 toms and 6 or 7 cymbals and all that ... and one day his drum set was stolen at a place they were playing in Portland ... he never drummed again! And he was good! Tom Payne is his name and on the net with some of his music. Really good singer as well, and when he stopped drumming it was to sing.