stadium rock - the stage

Emaj/B#maj/F#min/Amaj/Emaj/B#maj/F#min
its so clear to me
that i am privaleged
stand upon the stage
see teh crow in front of me
its an amazing feeling
im still reeling

you catch the eyes of teh people
spreadoing teh message

the stag is a plce where a man can sing a song
teh stage is a place where everybody can get along
its your opperuntiyt ot spread your message to the crwod
its your chance to sing out loud

the stage is aplace where a man can say his peace
its a place where artists live
let the moment matter and the sound ring true
its a chance for you to sing to me
and for me to sing to you

this is our chance
to make a noise
its our oppertunity
to cause a change
revolution in a crowd
thought transmission done out loud
its your chance to change the world

stand upon the stage and make yourself clear
let them all hear, those far and near
it's your chance to make a mark
don't be afraid
let your instrument play
it's your oppertunity to be something cool

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G#min/F#maj

don't be afraid to make a noise

G#min/B#maj

everyone wants to be a star
we're drawn to the light
it's not easy to make it big
but we wil lfight the good fight

everyone wants to be a star
we're drawn to the stage
we love how people listen to us
we're free from the cage

Emaj/G#min
its so cool

G#min/B#maj
everyone works so hard
for cryin out loud
playin their instruments hard
tryin to make a sound

"life is a long trip"

the trip - going out someplace...

think about all the things that ive seen
its a real mean scene that we dwell in
there's alot of things out there to be real
don't be naive and fall in

there's alot of people out there that seem to be fool

Emaj/F#min
its been a long long road that i've traveled
i've seen most of the world
people don't trust my mind
none of these boys and girls

i've been east and west
i've been through so much
i've seen things that could make you cry
i've got the gentlemen's touch

it;'s been a long wniding road
and i've been quite far from home
i've known so many people
and it's the road that i love to roam

i've got wanderlust
i'm a travelin man
i've got that itch in my feet
wanna travel as far as i can

Amaj/G#min/B#maj
and its so cool to me
that people, people all see
all through the things
the things that we all see.

four ideas

4 ideas:

the trip

went to england
took a plane
kinda fun
all in vain
had such a time
it was plain
things were never
the same again

saw the house
fallen apart
neighbor dead
speach an art
saw the kids
met from the start
things were shit
had to be smart

roamed around
saw the green
it was
a beautiful scene
things were
completely serene
sorted things out
mind was clean

out on streets
feeling the chill
knowledge of things
made me ill
sitting by
the window sill
rain fell down
time stood still

the stage

on the stage
see the people
everythings clear
all for real
never a chance
make it work
stand straight
dont be a jerk

people here
attentive waiting
watching you
demonstrating
patient and calm
open and kind
these are people
you left behind

dont be a fool
dont be a fucker
these arent idiots
they arent suckers
take their time
and value shit
dont take it
and throw a fit

bass knocker

in the city
shit was gritty
drove in the streets
shit wasnt pretty
movin along
oldsmobile
ethnic foods
shits for real

windy city
diversity aplenty
smoggy streets
cabs costs twenty
dont get lost
you'll be taken
don't be bad
you'll be forsaken

the matrix

think bout shit
let yourself go
stay with it
=fall out the flow
everythings connected
we're far apart
this thing we call life
is mostly art

walk around
trust your eyes
can you tell
between the lies
lines are read
books are placed
dont let yourself
lose your pace

things are weird
you are clear
somethin goin
down right here
got your head
underground
don't let yourself
be lost + found.

ideas:
"financials" - all about money
"england" - love of country, nature, style, trying to be a gentleman in a savage world.
"annoyance" - how much can a make take?

***"the stage is for everyone" - anyone can sing / tell jokes - its our duty to the audience to do something remarkable, statement to other performers too, privalige of being on a stage [appreciation, music is an exchange]

"jolly-rancher" w/ addiction tie-in. [valued thing.] - keep it dance.
"the power of the mind" - all invention comes from the mind - a statement about people's ability to create: hope for the hopeless.

***"an experience[trip overseas]" - flight/fire/station/ - story.

shit to do for success [bc's past shit]
- mixtapes. w/ dj talk/mc
- get in the zone

Cmin/chumbawumba-beat
nobody's seen the things that i seen
put your body through it
put your mind to it
put your body to it
and you get on throgh it

bc's ideas

BC's ideas
- the hate cycle***
- "fast thought"
- nothin personal - "just doin my job" - the lack of intimacy and directness in society. dehumanization.

nothing personal

nothing - there isnt any
personal - this isnt vindictive. you havent dont anything specific.

- BC's roots track. [the character: afro flow.] bass thumpin / scene jumpin. ***
a navajo named achilles track? - backstory... etc.

- "cover" - purple haze. [suggest: new music / application / rap-delivery? w/ adlibs]
- matrix track - suspense w/ room to kinda be cerebral. - tie in some of the big picture concepts that we're fuckin w / ***
- a person BEING a conglomerate of stuff not quite one channel, but many.
- "listening to the tune of the wild" - simplicity o nature / direct & concrete reality. [high hat concept]
- oh shit buildup. = the first track we do.

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- modern depression + occupy columbus + "foodstamp crew" + bus-stop blues. + kick people outta wallstreet... + china buying debt... european crisis. - global phenomenon. tables have turned. india/russia/china/brazil. - BrazilRussiaIndiaChina - cold-war flip-flop [flip-flopping.]
- columbus ohio "stunting" track.

1. bass knocker
2. matrix.
3. jolly rancher - maybe. [may not hold up.]
4. bus-stop blues - maybe. [negative]

band shit

ideas:

- jolly rancher idea w/ dance n shit [can ask the question, "jolly?"]

- the "wow" song - negativety + shit [chance to be as negative a spossible. ]
- zoomin song... [speed o thought speed o life.]
***- the concept of: [how somebody]guards against negativety [tie in w/ BC's flippin channels idea]
***- the concept of how: cycles o' hate [lead to more] hate [tie in w/ domino's]
- the concept of: [how people] create shit for needless reasons, vs need
***- the concept of: addiction to modern shit [vs cavemen livin off the land] - tech vs the wild [w/ bc's jungle "boogie" + high hats + simplicity]
- the concept of: terrorism: how we back people into corners n watch them turn into [terrorists]
- the concept of: how college is basically a waste o time
***- the concept of: how people act fake in situations sometimes [BC's "nothin personal" idea]
- the concept of: how people tend to try to fight w one another as a natural impulse
*** - poetry + music...

- the concept of: how "modern depression" is our current global financial situation, and how people r livin through it [encorporate into BC's "static" track - multitiered approach]

***- write somethin bout cbus [encorporate into BC's track bout "oh shit"]

- classic 80s hiphop track [bc's "bass-knocker" track]

- thamesbeat / britpop [punk / nate]
- triphop/celtic-punk/bhangra/trance/merengue
- the tragedy of childhood in adulthood, romance + crushing doubt/low self-esteem - people try to play up how awesome choldhood is, but theyre drawn into the weakness and succeptability of the child mind and they end up dying horrible deaths miserable and defeated because its an dadult world which takes an adult mind to comprehend and succeed in. [BC's matrix track]
- the concept of: the death o the video game industry [just how it sucks and used to be cool] [mario beat?]
- dramatic beginning / intro

Needa start slow-build
Dramatic beginning / intro
Afro flow / a navajo named achilles

good idea.

possible direction for setlist:
Start with drum + bass (easy to get into, hip-hop is foundation of our style)
Do straight up rap-anthem
After that, speed it up a bit w the electronic drums + jungle/breakbeat/ragga/grime stylings
Then after that, slow it down, something aery, trip-hop style
After that, do some rock style stuff, maybe semi country/bluegrass/bluesy mixed with straight rock n roll
After that, do something ***classical, chill + whatnot in a way people can identify with.
After that, do an acoustic folk thing, perhaps with harmonium [w/ bhangra?] involvement.

some more stuff:

12 ideas:
1 club song
2 the concept of: getn pumped to go outside to maybe a club or somethin excitin
3 track dedicated to england
4 track dedicated the college experience
***5 death
***6 war

***7 the potency of the mind - how all ideas stem from the human mind, every object in our life is created by a mind that was once around. and how we tread on the peak of scientific knowledge that was accrued by hundreds of scientific minds. we're the culmination of this ice age's human continuum. [bc's "matrix" idea]

***8 love [many people dont believe it exists, and those who do, even they may doubt where they find it, and ist few people who know the science of love, and even fewer who can applyit successfully.] - [bc's "rnb/soul"] [my-"u2/dreamy"]
***9 childhood - [while we're in it, we don't understand, as adults we long for it, but then we treat children like pets, or slaves, and arrtists are said to be children, but in reality theyre very adult studied and scientific, so basically the romanticising of childhood, and inevitably ignorace]
***10 the afterlife - [all the different major reliogns that i could think of like, heaven, or valhalla, or the cycle of death and rebirth in the buddhist tradition. combining all thse together, musing on death and rebirth and... the idea that we're born in the heart of stars... and eventually we'll be star-food for a dying star... ]
***11 space -
***12 science - what is science, questioning, is it an art...
1Spirituality - the concept of... how people need it for solance in life, the concept of overcoming death... giving strength to a person.
2Perception - the concept of how we see what we seee
3alcohol - legal drug, social lubricant... carcinogen.
4business - the art of making money, the science of the economy. - the role of the buyer, the role the seller, the entrepreneur, the guy who just got laid off from the car company, the asian dude whose gettin racism. -

more shit:

The american game of black white
Baby cock
Suhleepy
Too much golf cart
The Food stamp crew - low economy shit / modern day depression.

"u wanna jolly?" - " do the jolly rancher" jolly rancher track -
- oh shit - try some kindof a song w/ a swagger to it? - oh shit swagger.
[oh shit + jolly + swagger + 808s.] - potential intro .

setlist:

5nathan - "
10trumpet guy [jake] w/ sami
15sami - "wandering star- portishead cover"
20gatsby
25comedy guy
30
35
40
45

""Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" – Ralph Waldo Emerson "
the idea is each featured artist gets a chance to blast out their part during their bit... should be cool.

setlist

1. england**
2. japan
3. war**
4. death**
5. space
6. future**
7. past**
8. science
9. religion**
10. clubbing
11. gettin amped up
12. nature.**

options

woodlands open mike

firstly, we've got a band page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Heroes-of-Music/281943285172765

secondly, we've got a soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/heroes-of-music

thirdly, i've got a soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/sandeep-s

with that said, we're planning on doing woodlands tonight.

a little recap, monday we did scarlet n grey's open mike, @ the 1045pm slot. not bad + all that. worked with a guest trumpeter, and he invited us back for his set. was fun.

anyhow, tonight i'm not sure exactly what i want to do. little recap on last week's woodlands, we more or less freestyled the whole thing, with me on keyboards, pedals etc, and mike/effects. i came up with beats, then keys on top + all that. tonight i think we're more gonna do the whole pre-prep setup. maybe we'll improv at least one on stage. i wouldn't mind that.

as far as what i want to bring, i have quite a few options. acoustic/electric guitar, bass, keyboard, mike, pedals. on the pedal board, there's the loops to mess with. also there's the chance i could burn a cd of hammerhead beats to play along to. BC's against that but to give you another recap, a few weeks ago i went on with Nick and his friend Chris with Hammerhead beats + the pedals with the bass. it was pretty cool.