Vince Taylor
To hear Bowie talk about Taylor as an inspiration is quiet something. But the reason I bring this up is that there is a musical piece of Vince speaking that reminds me of a taylored (tailored?) down Be Bop Deluxe song. Observatory is the key word. All guesses are final.
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That makes sense that method of lyric writing of yours as an occasional line from your lyrics stand out like a song title. I like its waste not whatnot packaging.
But the passage of time shows up in subtle ways in the lyrics.
Then there are the pop music bands who steal (appropriate?) song titles from others to create band names, like Gigolo Aunts and Baby Lemonade. Certainly in the case of those two an interesting way to pull in the Sydiots like me to their music. šFortunately, they've made nice tunes as well.
The Dreamsville poetry experiment reminds me the Round Robin method of collaborative fiction or the Exquisite Corpse method of collaborative drawing ...
My friend Alex Jordan and I when we were teenagers used to roll dice and assign each side a note on a scale to see what kinds of melodies emerged. We thought of ourselves as playing with weird messages from the shadow world.
Roman fresco depicting dice players,
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