Let's Write a Song !!

Mike Schwartzman · Post by **Mike Schwartzman** » 1 Dec 2015 1:43 pm

Since we all wrote the dang thing out in no time (based on Chris' initial verse and idea)...it is seen by anyone and on the Forum.

We might have a much bigger problem than the melody, singer(s) or guitar player. That is...the steel solo: Who will play it? On which steel? And will the tone be in their right hand?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 1 Dec 2015 4:12 pm

Charlie McDonald wrote: How about 'Chris and Jim?' The Spandex Brothers?

i think we prefer 'produced by old men in baggy spandex'!

i've decided to be realistic about this endeavor and will
donate the first million in proceeds to the forum.

Joseph Napolitano · Post by **Joseph Napolitano** » 1 Dec 2015 6:58 pm

It's nice to see everyone cooperating.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 1 Dec 2015 7:55 pm

chris ivey wrote:i've decided to be realistic about this endeavor and will
donate the first million in proceeds to the forum.

There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone...
What a beautiful world this will be / What a glorious time to be free....--Donald Fagen, I.G.Y.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 1 Dec 2015 7:58 pm

Joseph Napolitano wrote:It's nice to see everyone cooperating.

Don't get too used to it...

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 1 Dec 2015 9:05 pm

...and perhaps a final vocal tag of:

'are you blinded by love, or desire?'

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 2 Dec 2015 3:38 am

Stronger as a statement, I think, echoing the line from the first verse.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 2 Dec 2015 8:32 am

maybe, but i was thinking after ther original is restated at the end, just as a subtle almost unnoticeable fade out.

hey, what do i know?

i'm just waiting for the money to start rolling in!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 2 Dec 2015 8:34 am

During the fade out, we hear a police siren and a guy getting stopped by the cops. You hear the cop's voice, "Let me see your license son... Are you blinded by love or desire?"

All during the fade-out...

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 2 Dec 2015 8:40 am

Love or Desire

There's a stairway to heaven
and a highway to hell
They start at the crossroads
we all know so well

The path that you choose
can be hard to tell
If you're blinded by love or desire

The streets are all one way
You can't turn around
So head for the runway
that's heavenly bound

On gossamer wings
With nary a sound
And away from the brimstone and fire

It can take you a lifetime
to get to the top
But the slippery slope
to the bottom won't stop

And you can be certain
That after the drop
You'll be stuck in the muck and the mire

If you're blinded by love or desire.

Copyright Baggy Spandex Music

are you blinded by love, or desire?

charlie, i do like the way you assembled the order.
it works perfectly that way.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 2 Dec 2015 9:41 am

This would be my humble idea, it's meant to be played as a waltz.
The line beginnig with "The streets" would serve as the chorus.
I didnt know what to do with the end. (Maybe spoken?)

chris ivey wrote:Love or Desire
1st verse
G
There's a stairway to heaven
C
and a highway to hell
G
They start at the crossroads
D
we all know so well
G
The path that you choose
C................ G
can be hard to tell
..........................D .......G
If you're blinded by love or desire

Chorus:
C
The streets are all one way
G
You can't turn around
A7
So head for the runway
D
that's heavenly bound

2nd verse
G
On gossamer wings
C
With nary a sound.......

Repeat Chorus:
Te streets...

And you can be certain
That after the drop
You'll be stuck in the muck and the mire

If you're blinded by love or desire.

Copyright Baggy Spandex Music

are you blinded by love, or desire?

charlie, i do like the way you assembled the order.
it works perfectly that way.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 2 Dec 2015 10:51 am

I see what you mean:

"And you can be certain
That after the drop
You'll be stuck in the muck and the mire

If you're blinded by love or desire.

Are you blinded by love, or desire?"

Joachim Kettner wrote: (Maybe spoken?)

Or what Jim wrote. (Reminds me of the intro to George Duke & Stanley Cklarke's 'Find Out Who You Are' except at the end.)

I also was hearing it in 3/4, but it might be cool to shift to 4/4 after the first or second verse to expand temporal possibilities.
Drums get a little stronger, a solo can stretch out a little...

... or after the second chorus, the twin steel ride can stretch out to infinity.

Hey, what does anybody know?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 2 Dec 2015 10:55 am

this is all great. i know the 3/4 possibility fits.
you guys work it all out and let me know when it's time to sign the contract.

interestingly enough, i wrote a song called 'this time the girl is gonna to stay' and then i heard it on the radio in my girlfriend's car as 'i just can't help believin' by bj thomas.
so i'm used to getting screwed in the songwriting game!

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 3 Dec 2015 10:53 am

'i just can't help believin' by bj thomas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqgW07lnuU
Oh my God, you wrote that song, Chris?
And didn't get any credits, that's foul play!

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 3 Dec 2015 11:05 am

It won't work, Theres nothing in it about broken hearts,Trains,Bars,Dogs or Trucks.

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 3 Dec 2015 12:40 pm

chris ivey wrote: interestingly enough, i wrote a song called 'this time the girl is gonna to stay' and then i heard it on the radio in my girlfriend's car as 'i just can't help believin' by bj thomas.
so i'm used to getting screwed in the songwriting game!

which makes you the recipient of one of the world's more expensive BJ's, Chris

(don't mind me, I'm accelerating on the Highway to Hell...)

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Dec 2015 1:17 pm

oh no, i appreciate the beautiful sentiment.

by the way, terry really liked the verse you wrote on the
forum song!

maybe you're not just a pretty face!

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 3 Dec 2015 3:19 pm

Joe Casey wrote:It won't work, Theres nothing in it about broken hearts,Trains,Bars,Dogs or Trucks.

.....or Mama....or prison....

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Dec 2015 3:26 pm

of course, for the video we'll need a gaggle of them crotch spreading sex dancers to obscure how ugly jim and i are.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 3 Dec 2015 3:27 pm

chris ivey wrote:of course, for the video we'll need a gaggle of them crotch spreading sex dancers to obscure how ugly jim and i are.

... and a whole lotta rehearsals...

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 3 Dec 2015 3:51 pm

First I was thinking the Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love" video girls would be perfect...but then I realized they made that video 30 years ago and now they're as old as our baggy spandex gang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Dec 2015 4:59 pm

i think a special ops helicopter would lend some ambience.
can you fly into the video shoot, jeff.
it would at least create that necessary rock n roll wind blown hair vibe.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Dec 2015 5:04 pm

as a matter of fact, the chopper could serve as a modern stairway to heaven....
flown by stevie nicks under jeff's command.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Dec 2015 5:10 pm

it's crazy but this is coming full circle with my church of the holy bandwagon. you just jump on the bandwagon at the last minute and circumvent the pearly gates by going in the stage door!

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 3 Dec 2015 8:03 pm

That stairway to heaven probably will have to have one of those seats that slowly rides up along the handrail. And Chris, some of these guys may not do the windblown hair thing any more either!