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2024
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ROCKABILLY CLUB PEACE
All percussion is welcome on all songs.
The worst thing about starting a band is everyone brings bits and pieces of songs they know. No one knows a complete song that they can show the others. Or they waste six months arguing about a band name and what musical direction to go in. And what their gimmick will be. Some people spend the first three practices figuring out what they can do together, and often find themselves incompatible. Therefore, I’ve been a guitar hobbyist for 40 years, playing songs I like. A chair, a musical stand and the Blue Oyster Cult songbook. Scanning through music books but never memorizing any songs in order to perform. Just playing along with the record. Steely Dan, Black Sabbath. Gordon Lightfoot. I love to create, I loathe to perform.
However, I’ve spent the last 5/6 years finding simpler songs for me to play. Songs I can memorize and start a band with. The Arthuritis has taken its toll as it has for many other aging musicians. I make too many mistakes and can’t play fast enough to be a professional and, worst of all, I’m fussy about what I want to play. EVERYONE INSISTS I HAVE TO PLAY WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
No thank you. Not a trained monkey, I got something new to offer musically.
It’s said that 10% of
musicians make a living at it. The big question is this: what are the other 90% doing? Probably many people would like to have a community combo that they can participate in, when they
want to. This is what this is. Tightly managed to avoid the inevitable
disagreements, but freedom to come and go as you want. The BEATRX MUSICAL
SYSTEM allows for maximum musical expression amongst a community, and freedom
for musicians.
All percussion is welcome but please, remember the beat is the remedy. This is not a comfort zone for Boomers or a safe space where the maudlin sentimentality of Pop music is glorified. I'm trying to revive songs that had a lame ass beat back in the day or really good songs that are sounding outdated. You got a song to suggest? First ask yourself ‘have I already heard this 10,000 times on the radio?’ Then, “can I teach others to play it?" No one wants homework.
The songs stay in the order I have listed for a concept that needs to be tested. Instead of randomly jumping around to different keys, the songs progress in an ascending order of keys. The first song is in E then then the keys of F then G. Then the next song starts in Ab but ends in A. We want a big beat and we appeal to all sides. If we can agree on music, we can agree on other things. You’ll see what I mean.
Think of us also as Song Archivists for the huge demographic out there looking for something original and refreshing, not hackneyed and overplayed. We have 75 years of rock and roll to choose from but the songs on the radio have a very limited variety. No album cuts. So uncool.
I might say this is a Rockabilly Club
but not in the cliched way. This is where Rockabilly meets Americana, that meets
folk/metal music with a boogie woogie beat. Back to when Rockabilly became
rock and roll.
We’re not talking clothes fetish either. You can be rockabilly without the Halloween costume, you know what I mean?
The Beatles used many influences from around the world, but at their core, they were Rockabilly. The Beatles didn’t do too many covers, but more than half of them were rockabilly songs. “Honey Don’t” “Roll Over Beethoven” et al. Second generation rockabilly. They yearned to jam with Carl Perkins, not Sophie Tucker.
What I do here is take songs that are really good, that maybe had an insipid, uninspired beat back in the day, and I try to liven it up. Dance beats. Relatively simple chord structures making them easier to remember for musicians. On the other hand, not the same old, same old comfort zone of people dependent on a capo, or corny folkie stuff where every song has the same strummy strum rhythm.
I’d rather know three different ways to play C#m7 than figure out where to put my capo in order to play an Am.(4th fret?) I don't remember any of my Jazz Guitar teachers using a capo.
This is a prototype musical
configuration that can be used anywhere in the world to bring communities back together
through music. Music is what many feel is the best healer, so we want to make some
authentic American music to preserve good songs, forgotten album cuts, or songs
never heard. Give old, tired songs a beat treatment. American songs. Our folk tales for the future generation.
The IconOclastics. BeatRX. BEATRX
THE BEATRX MUSICAL SYSTEM.
So let’s have a go at it. Here are the first five songs.
1 Blue Boat Home
2 Don’t Look Now
3 Rockabilly Hall of Fame
4 Mother of a Miners Child
5 Jenny Are You Gay?
Blue Boat Home is a Unitarian Universalists favorite.
I use a droning beat for this first song. At anevent the droning noise would subtly get peoples attention. It is in 6/8 time and that could cause difficulty for me and others. I can play it with a 4/4 beat which evens out after 6 measures. And 12. There can be solo verses between lyrical verses and actually unlimited soloing. I had the idea of playing this drone music as a signal for musicians to get ready to play and we slowly work into
The second song is DONT LOOK NOW by Creedence talks about people
who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk. Rockabilly Hall of Fame is such a
fun song but the actual Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Memphis kept deleting it
when I posted it on their facebook page. Plus, I think they may also be
racists. So maybe pay them a visit and see what's up.
#4 Mother of A Miners Child is a stark reality of
how people live. #5Jenny Are You Gay? Recalling the fifties this song was originally “Johnny Are You Gay” but
it was gender fluid enough to work. This song is about young people getting married to get out of their
childhood homes. “My ma is a naggy parent, Jenny, won’t you set me free?”
1
BLUE BOAT HOME by Peter Mayer*
Drone on the E note
6/8 TIME BRO
1 Though below me, I feel no
motion Standing on these mountains and plains
Far away from the rolling ocean Still my dry land heart can say
I’ve been sailing all my life now Never harbor or port have I known
The wide universe is the ocean I travel And the Earth is my blue boat home
SOLO VERSE
Sun my sail and moon my rudder As I ply the starry sea,
2 Leaning over the edge in wonder,
Casting questions into the deep.
Drifting here with my ship’s companions,
All we kindred pilgrim souls,
Making our way by the lights of the heavens
In our beautiful blue boat home
SOLO VERSE
3 I give thanks to the waves
upholding me
Hail the great winds urging me on,
Greet the infinite sea before me,
Sing the sky my sailor’s song:
I was born upon the fathoms,
Never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel,
And the Earth is my blue boat home.
2 DON’T LOOK
NOW 1 who’ll take the coal from the mine, who'll take the salt
from the earth, who'll take a leaf 2 who’ll work the
field who'll put his back to the plough who'll take the mountain (DON’T
LOOK NOW SOMEONES DONE YOUR STARVIN’) solo repeat chorus 3 repeat don’t look
now 4 who'll make the shoes for your feet? who'll make the clothes you
wear? who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep don't look
now it aint you or me 5 Solo
6 who’ll take the coal from the mine who'll take the salt
from the earth? who'll take the promise that you don't have to
keep?
3 F SIMPLE 130 ROCKABILLY
HALL OF FAME B side Band. The Rockabilly Hall of Fame has
yet to embrace this song. I give it a more danceable beat
1 found ourselves this cool won't
believe the folks we saw 2 poster hung up on the wall perkins vincent had a
ball Johnny Cash and Elvis too 3 Marty Robbins made us dance Elvis
put us in a trance that night won't forget the sights we saw all
those rockers yelled for more
4
G MOTHER
OF A MINERS CHILD GORDON LIGHTFOOT very nice song. I give it a
harsh beat which brings out the lyrics better, I think. 138
1 she is my flower (waits for me beside the
kitchen door) 2 She is my light (wash away the coal dust from my face)
3 SOLO 4 When the night
shifts done (and the promise I made to carry on)
5 sometimes I smile in the cage where the
cables softly hum I'd curse that old straw boss to the bone but the mother of a
miners child is waiting for her paycheck to come home come saturday (he is just
a miners boy, I hope that he will find a better way
6 repeat 1
5 1 Jenny, are you gay? You're so good looking But something's in the way When I look in your eyes Oh, Jenny you mean so much to me I've waited so long for you to set me free And so I ask myself each day
2 Jenny, are you
gay? You've got a real cool shirt, yeah It's tight black satin Not like the
other girls, now
They all wear plaid
and corduroy I really like your style i wanna be your boy So I ask
myself each day, Jenny, are you gay?
(Bm)Shopping malls and station
wagons Ain't a lot for a guy like me
My ma was a naggy
parent,So Jenny, won't you set me
free
Take a look into my eyes,
there's lots of love for you
Tell me now, is it wrong To
want to get more from you?
3 Jenny, are you
gay?
I didn't see you at the
ballgame I heard you gone shopping
Just you and Chesty Morgan All
I want is to be close to you
C'mon, give it a try, I know
you'll like it too And so I ask myself each day...
SOLO SOLO SOLO
SOLOSHOPPING MALLS AND STATION WAGONS
4 Jenny, are you gay? I
saw you dancin' techno The way you move to the beat It’s supernatural
Oh, Johnny, you mean so much to
meI've waited so long for you to set me free
An so I ask myself
each day, Jenny, are you gay
Fiddle Bango Harp Beatbox xylophone or whatever. It’s about creating a community band. Or orchestra. This is what I'm talking about. Connecting in a simple way with people and creating a better grade of performance because of the eschewing (to spit out in disgust) of overplayed pop music, so this is a rich new field to plow. Plenty of people out there practicing their instrument or improving their voice. Tired of the bar scene for new music.
Then there’s the repetition. Songs I liked the first 10,000 times I heard them, but now it’s like, enough already! If I never hear Peaceful Easy Feeling by the Eagles again that would be fine. We hear the same 30 songs over and over with classic rock, when the catalog for these 30 bands includes well over 1000 songs. Where's the rest of them? Let's bring back songs that have stood the test of time; good songs that didn’t get the airplay it deserved. Truthfully the repetition on the radio has lulled Americans to sleep. Many have nuanced their playlists, but those people are always looking for new songs and new musicians to groove on and add to their playlist.
What we could do is play fund raising, non-profit, non-alcohol events for free. Find others. I see spin offs where members get together to do their particular favorite songs.
You know, I just can’t handle the maudlin sentimentality of boomer pop music, so there is very little of that. All the breakup and falling in love pop HITS seems to have caused the plague of infidelity in this nation. Unitarian music seems like false hope and feel good music for people who are scared to find out what’s outside the box. Songs everyone has overheard this last half-century.
We need a jolt. A new American music is emerging. Americana, Hick-hop, crossover country, Black Metal Lounge Music. The scene is changing as we find out how corrupt the music industry has been. Musicians not making money with the Streaming Pyramid Scheme. People looking for a new start and it's 1953 and Hillbilly music was finally gettin' played on the radio.
Hillbilly music and boogie woogie created rockabilly in the late 40’s. The rowdy demographic of both races created a magical musical hybrid and this is what I feel is happening again. But anything 'billy' was denigrated as years went by. Hollywood lambasted the Hillbillies. No one wanted to be associated with those low-class Jays. So, it became known as rock and roll instead of Rockabilly. This is the Rockabilly Club Peace.
Easier to remember songs, but also for guitar players: we
need people who aren’t scared of a F#m7 or Am7b5. I recall my uncle Gamielle
who knew 500 songs on the piano. All in the key of C. Every hackneyed,
overplayed, chesnut from 1930 to 1970. He was difficult to listen to.
Very importantly we want to create momentum and energy and
save good songs from obscurity. The momentum is derived from the sequencing of
songs. Starting in E, the second song is also in E. The next song is in F and the
next in G. Then a car racing song that goes from Ab to A for a dramatic effect.
A song in the Key of C then one in D. Then “Drinkin Gasoline” in Em and we
repeat the process.
Here are the next five songs as we dig into Americana. You know, surfing, car racing. With just enough lyrics in case I forget them. Radio is too busy trying to make a profit and playing the songs THEY think you want to hear. People have not heard some of these songs for over 50 years and it will fire up some neurons. Hey Little Cobra was one of the first 45’s I purchased.
6 Ab to A HEY LITTLE COBRA 1963 140 simple The Rip
Chords. Great key change third verse 1
I took my Cobra 2 when the flag went down 3
around the far turn in the striaghtaway
7 C New
York is a lonely town Trade Winds The
last surf song to reach the top ten. 1965 130 simp 138 SEEMS BETTER
1
my folks moved to New York 2 from central park to Pasadena’s such a long way
8
D I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU 120 GROOVE BEAT
I don't know what it is that makes me love you
so I only knew I never want to let you go
You started something, can't
you see? And ever since we met, you've
had a hold on me
It happens to be true I only wanna be with you
INTRO PATTERN
[Verse 2]It doesn't really matter what you
say or do I want to spend each
moment, any day with you
Look what has happened with just one kiss I never knew that I could be in love like this
It's crazy but it's true I only wanna be with you
[Bridge] You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance
[Verse 3}SOLO
VERSE 4 I don't know
what it is that makes me love you so I only knew I never want to let you go
You started something, can't you see? And ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
It happens to be true I only wanna be with you
[Bridge]
You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance
[Verse 5] Now, listen honey I just want
to be beside you everywhere
As long as we're together, honey, I don't care
Cause you started something, can't you see? Ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
No matter what you do I only wanna be with you
No matter, no matter what you
do
9 Em DRINKIN’
GASOLINE THE BABOONS 2012 Rockabilly 90 Train beat or
130 maybe slower 128
soft pick
1
Well I'm driving down the road in my Cadillac Travelling lies me by a road
turning black
Drinking gasoline is a whole lotta
do Drinking gasoline to get over you
We were doing swell with a short way to hell on
the hill
2 Well I met you in the desert at
Sabriskey point
3 Well I drove ten thousand miles away from
home
See no trap in jail, but ain't no desert spawn (solo)
4 Engine started smoking and wings on fire
Big wheels started shaking and I lost a tyre
10 I KNOW YOU Dave Clark
5 British invasion inspired by rockabilly and I use surf beat
140 1 I know you don’t 2 I’m a
fool believe me
BEATRX
Rock and Roll is our
American legacy, not the Confederacy. Guns guns guns! Lay down the sword and
pick up a traditional instrument. What the fuck is wrong with you guys? We can agree on music, so
we can agree on other things.
So please, let’s not do popular songs from the radio. Remember the archivist bit. Bring something to the table. So many artists and music, there is always something new to find.
These are songs 2 good 2 B forgotten. Many had insipid, uninspired beats back in the day and rockabilly can fix this problem. I’m enthusiastic about the Beat Box replacing a drum set. Takes up so little space and adds a nice bottom to the music. Many Rockabilly drummers have or had very small drum kits that they stand up with. This takes up much less space and is another alternative to the massive set up for most drums.
People will take a look at the song list that we can pass out and they see a song to try and sing or solo on, where BEATRX is playing live. And also, people can tell where they are on the list. “3 more songs and I’m singing “Call Me the Breeze.””
I have made lots of room for bluegrass type of verse solo, verse solo. Harmonica would probably work on a lot of songs as would fiddle solos.
Any musician can come up and play if they know the song and I would make a playlist available for people to peruse. Karaoke with live music. But not the same old same old songs we’ve heard thousands of times.
I picked up a bass and realized I still prefer bass playing. Seems easier on the fingers. I have an Acoustic 371 for a bass player to use. I’m seeing drums, guitar and bass as the core while trying to bridge rockabilly and metal. On simple karaoke machines or 30 watt Marshalls. Some of us make too many mistakes to be professionals, but we still need to play. Drum circle volume would be a way to put it. A Dankbilly Circle.
You got your F and C harmonicas. Check out which
songs are in these two keys. Just jump in. It’s a new concept to
help rebuild communities. These are the songs I do and the ones I’m
doing. Join me and note the keys of this songlist are constantly going higher.
I am testing to see if this creates sone kind of positive momentum. C#m, D , Em
etc
Am
I looking for applause? No. Looking to do traditional gigs playing “songs
people like”? No. Not at all. We have to get away from this giant
comfort zone of pop culture. I
feel like a trained monkey the few times I've performed. It doesn’t seem
natural. What sells isn’t what is good. It’s easy, soft and sweet.
I see it as more playing at events and not in
front of an audience. We want to make some authentic American music
to preserve good songs, forgotten album cuts, or songs never heard. Give old,
tired songs a beat treatment. Rockabilly was born in Appalachia and so was rock
and roll and here it comes again. ROCK AND ROLL IS YOUR LEGACY, NOT THE CONFEDERACY.
SONGS
#11 to #22
11 GHOST
DANCE
12 CRY BABY
CRY
13 THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS
14 I’M
TELLING YOU NOW
15 WALK
LIKE A MAN
16 WORKING MAN
17 TABACCO ROAD
18 DON’T
DREAM IT’S OVER
19 ACE OF
SPADES
20 HURT
YOU FIRST
21 HEADS
CAROLINA
2 COMING
UP
Lyrics prompt
11 GHOST DANCE
Gm Cm Gm Cm
Gm Cm
Crow has brought the message
To the children of the sun, for the return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come
Gm Cm
You can kill my body
Bb F
You can damn my soul
Gm Cm
For not believing in your god Gm And some world down below Cm
[Chorus]
Eb Bb C F
You don't stand a chance against my prayers
Eb Bb C F
You don't stand a chance against my love
Gm C
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
F Bb Cm F Bb Cm
But we shall live again,
we shall live again
2 My sister above She has red paint She died at Wounded Knee
By the latter day saint
You got the big drum in the distance
Bb F
The blackbird's in the sky
Gm
Cm
That's the sound that you hear
Gm Cm
When the buffalo cry
[Chorus]
Gm Cm
Crazy Horse was a mystic
Gm He knew the secret of the trance
Gm
Cm
And Sitting Bull the great apostle Gm Of the Ghost Dance
12 CRY BABY CRY BEATLES built for metal. SIMP 140
1 The king of Marigold was in the kitchen 2
the king was in the garden 3 the duchess of Kirkaldy 4 at twelve o clock a
meeting for a seance
13 THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS
G C Am D
Amber called her uncle, said "We're up here for the holiday,
G C Am D D
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay."
G C Am D
And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree,
Em C Am D D
He watched his son hang candy canes all made with red dye number three.
G C Am D
He told his niece, "It's Christmas Eve, I know our life is not your style,"
G C Am D D
She said, "Christmas is like Solstice, and we miss you and it's been awhile,"
G C Am D
So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
G C Am D
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
Em C Am D
And just before the meal was served, hands were held and prayers were said,
Em C Am D G
Sending hope for peace on earth to all their gods and goddesses.
G C Am D
The food was great, the tree plugged in, the meal had gone without a hitch,
G C Am D D
Till Timmy turned to Amber and said, "Is it true that you're a witch?"
G C Am D
His mom jumped up and said, "The pies are burning," and she hit the kitchen,
Em C Am D D
And it was Jane who spoke, she said, "It's true, your cousin's not a Christian,"
G C Am D
"But we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share,
G C Am D D
And you find magic from your God, and we find magic everywhere."
G C Am D
So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
G C Am D
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
Em C Am D
And where does magic come from? I think magic's in the learning,
Em C Am D G
'Cause now when the Christians sit with Pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.
G C Am D
When Amber tried to do the dishes, her aunt said, "Really, no, don't bother."
G C Am D D
Amber's uncle saw how Amber looked like Tim and like her father.
G C Am D
He thought about his brother, how they hadn't spoken in a year,
Em C Am D D
He thought he'd call him up and say, "It's Christmas and your daughter's here."
G C Am D
He thought of fathers, sons and brothers, saw his own son tug his sleeve, saying,
G C Am D D
"Can I be a Pagan?" Dad said, "We'll discuss it when they leave."
G C Am D
So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
G C Am D
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,Em C Am D
Lighting trees in darkness, learning new ways from the old, and
Em C Am D G
Making sense of history and drawing warmth out of the cold.
G G C G/B Am D G14 I’M TELLING YOU NOW
I’m telling you now
I'm Telling You Now chords Freddie and the Dreamers
G# C# Cm F# G# C# Cm D#7
Ab to Db I'm telling you now, I'm telling you right away.
A#m D# G# Fm
I'll be staying for many a day,
A#m D# G# F#
I'm in love with you now.
2 G# C# G# C#
I'm telling you now, I'll say what you
wanna hear.
A#m D# G# Fm
I'll be telling you for many a year,
A#m D# G# G#7
I'm in love with you now.
A#m D#
Do you think I'm foolin' A#m
D# G# When
I say "I love you"?
C# Cm F#
I love you.
A#m D#
Maybe you'll believe me,
A#m D# D#7 D#7
When I'm finally through, through,
through, through.
3 G# C# G# C#
I'm telling you now, I know it's been
said before.
A#m D# G# Fm
Say you love me and I will be sure,
A#m D# G# F#
I'm in love with you now.
A|---------7-5-3-5-----------7-5-3-2-3
----------2-3-2 -----------2-------2-3-2--------|
E|--3-3-3-------------3-3-3------------5----5-5
---------5-3-3-5------5-5-------5-3----|
D7
4]A D A D
I'm telling you now, I'm telling you
right away.
Bm E A F#m
I'll be saying for many a day,
Bm E A A7
I'm in love with you now.
Bm E
Do you think I'm foolin'
Bm E A
When I say "I love you"? D
C#m G I love you.
Bm E
Maybe you'll believe me,
Bm E E7 F7
When I'm finally through, through,
through, through.
5 A#
D# A# D#
I'm telling you now, I know it's been
said before.
Cm F A# Gm
Say you love me and I will be sure,
Cm F A# Gm
I'm in love with you now.
Cm F A# Gm
I'm in love with you now.
Cm F A# D# Dm G#
A#
I'm telling you now.
15 WALK LIKE A MAN 1
Nashville
country pop 120
Oh how you tried to cut me down to size
Tellin' dirty lies to my friends
But my own father said give her up, don't bother The world isn't comin' to an
end
(He said) Walk like a man, talk like a man Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth crawlin' on the earth So walk like a man, my son Oh, walk,
walk, walk, walk
2 Oh Bye bye baby, I don't-a mean maybe Gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be cryin' on account of all your lyin' Oh yeah, just look who's
laughin' now
(I'm gonna) Walk like a man, fast as I can Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world forget about it, girl And walk like a man from you
16 WORKIN’ MAN
The Working Man country train 110
I cant solo on this but anyone that can solo in C# is welcome and
this is a song that can have as many solos as there are people
|
1 Well, I was born on a Sunday; since I loined right from wrong. |
2 Mama said I was
bad,
Pattern and solo verse
BREAK I
ain't never been in trouble; I ain't got the time. I don't mess around
with magic, child. What I got is mine.
3 Whatever you say,
Lord, well, Lordawww I do the job for you. 4
Every Friday, well, that's
17 Tabacco Road
Tabacco Road Nashville groove About life in Durhan NC when it was Tabacco
Town. This song can be expanded with solo verses. TABACCO
ROAD by the Nashville Teens and John D Loudermilk who created the song I was born in a trunk Mama died and my daddy got drunk left me
here to die alone
Let me hear two dying crows 2 grew up in 3 gonna
leave, get a job 4 Bring dynamite and a crane
18 DON’T DREAM ITS OVER
120
groove
There is freedom within, there is freedom
without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road While you're traveling with me
Hey now, hey
now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between
us We know they won't win
2 Now I'm towing my car,
there's a hole in the roof My possessions are causing me suspicion but
there's no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste But you turn right over to
the T.V. page
Hey now, hey
now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes
in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they
won't win
3 Now I'm
walking again to the beat of a drum And I'm counting the steps to the door
of your heart
Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof Get to know the feeling of
liberation and release
Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us Don't ever let them win Songwriters: Neil Finn
19 ACE OF
SPADES
20 HURT YOU FIRST Power Station style simp 130
1 you’re too good for me 2 are you guilty is there a secret 3 gonna make you cry gonna say goodbye it'll be nice4 I’m gonna I’m gonna hurt you first youll be the one the only one thats a cryin'
21 HEADS CAROLINA TAILS
CALIFORNIA
Baby what do you say we just get lost leave this one horse like two revels without a cause
I got people in Boston aint you r daddy still in desMoinesWe can load what we own in the back of a U-Haul van
Couple of modern day Moses' searching for the promised land
We can go four hundred miles before we stop for gas
We can drive for a day and then we'll take a look at the map
Heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where, it don't matter as long as we're going
Somewhere together, I've got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California
We're gonna get outta here
If we have to ride a Greyhound bus
Boy we're bound to outrun The bad luck that's been tailing us
Heads Carolina, tails California Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the oceanWhere, it don't matter as long as we're going
Somewhere together, I've got a quarter Heads Carolina, tails California
22 COMING
UP
You want
a love to last forever
One that
will never fade away I want to help you with your problem Stick around, I say
It's coming up, it's coming up
Coming up (like a flower)Coming up (yeah)
2 You want a friend you can rely on One who will never fade away
I know you're searching for an answer Stick around, I say
CHORUS
3 You want a better kind of future One that everyone can share
You're not alone, we all could use it Stick around we're nearly there
It's coming up, it's coming up Coming up (like a
flower) Coming up
4 You want a love to last forever One that will never fade away I'd like to help you with your problem Stick around, pretty baby, I say
It's coming up, it's coming up It's coming up (like a flower)
It's coming up, pretty baby, I wanna say
Coming up (only hour) Coming up (yeah yeah yeah) Coming up (pretty baby)
Coming up (oh, you better believe it) Coming up (like a flower)
We should have the battery power to play anywhere. Not trying to fill a stadium here, but events with 10 to 50 people. My karaoke machine fits a guitar and I can plug in and play beats offa my phone on a Karaoke type speaker. The Emerson Center has a good microphone system set up to mic up for when we open up for these cover bands. We can be a house band.
Sing without a microphone. That might be too quiet. We could probably do higher decibel stuff, but it takes away from the community spirit and self-sufficiency this concept would engender. We need to be able to be loud too if we really want to rock and roll or got an 800 seat venue to fill.
Do a metal version of ‘Surf City’. and a Surf beat to ‘I Know You’ by the Dave Clark Five of British invasion fame. It's genre busting time.
We set up and play at events that have no music. This is aa concept remember. A flash band and a concept that can be used anywhere. The BeatRX Musical System.
Every group like this has a different songlist. Join protests with live music to offer. You know what I’m saying? Remind me to add "All You Fascists bound to Lose" by Woody Guthrie.
You see, at a playing date, we pass out a sheet that shows all 33? 40? songs and what key it’s in. You can follow along for one thing and the sheet also includes an urging for people to buy or stream this music you are hearing. Of course.
We will do these (33) 44 (55?) songs only. We can create a process for adding additional songs. But I would have a Veto to exclude objectionable material such as Neal Diamond or Barbara Streisand. If I ever have to jam to Hey Joe or House of the Rising Sun again, I will die a little inside. We don’t need any of these lurid, modern pop songs either.
Beatrix is the alternative name of the group. BeatRX. The beat is the remedy. I play enough of the structure of the song, all the way through, and sing it if no one else knows it. So the trouble with every band I was ever in, is solved. What songs will we do? I’ve been working on this for 6 years or so. Songs that are easy to remember chordwise, and songs not on the radio.
People who want to do the strummy strum strum of folk music can start their own thing, right? I’m thinking lots of solo verses, give people a chance to stretch out. This is where all your banjo and Fiddle and Harp and Dulcimer players get to stretch out. Nothing like having some backup. Songs have been tailored to make solo verses available. solo. A Community band, where the 90% of non-professional musicians get to play.
Farmers markets, flash markets, events and civic gatherings. Communities are going to be gathering to strengthen America. Community building.
It won’t be about rioting in the streets it will be about commerce in the streets. We unhinge from the global market and become independent and communitarian.
Music will be needed, and we can’t depend on people who are all about creating their own brands or wearing outrageous costumes with one new gimmick after another. Stage presence doesn’t make the music better, it only seems like it.
