Quietly Riotly into the Darkness

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I’m looking forward to my songwriting nights — it’s not the live band, but we can’t do that anymore without risk, so online and suno style will have to do.

I knew a lot of songwriters back in the day — Boyce and Hart, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and many, many more, and they all had one thing in common — the band is the band.

If you have a live band, you’re stuck with their particular talents and styles, and that’s what comes out. You have no control, typically, over that. The band is the band.

If you wrote lyrics, the band would work out the arrangement most of the time, unless you had a specific reason to do it one way and one way only.

Most songs are compromises between the musicians and sometimes the arranger and producer, and sometimes even the engineer.

Working in Suno, I have a certain amount of predictability and a wide range of band sounds from tiny barbershop trio to full orchestral backup in a Broadway production.

I view my picks and playlists as a sort of DJ might organize the hit records for the AM radio show.

The lyrics in my songs are the reasons for the songs. I try for the clearest vocals and instrumentals that I can get, and I look for originality and a definite twist of the avant-garde, and just a touch of humor.

The song videos below are yesterday’s creations, but this morning’s harvest — it takes a full 24 hours to get the video that I can then post on youtube & elsewhere.

Tonight I’m working on some songs for the California Resistance — it doesn’t exist yet, but it will, and when it does, it’ll already have a rich harvest of folk songs supporting the cause.

Believe me, nobody wants to end up as a hero of the revolution, but someone has to write them, and someone has to see that the songs are written, and many have to help to see that the songs are played, and replayed and replayed again!

Remember, there was once a place called Camelot. Now it’s called Paramus, New Jersey.

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