Feb 2022 punk rock collab 100secondsong
Mike- I saw @billwhite51 's lyric and loved it right away. As he had invited collabs, I asked if he wanted me to set it to music and he said sure. Was fun to do a little vocal-cord shredding for this one. Quick iPhone recording, but that little app music memos does give ya drums that seemed to follow along to what I was playing, so there's that. Added some echo and alot of compression to flesh out the sound a bit. Looking back, maybe there should be a chorus of Brandos, all yelling 'Stella' ?
Bill-many of tennessee williams' female characters were projections of himself, written in an era when gay characters were relegated to comic foils. williams created the most memorable female characters in the lit erature of american theatre by spilling his own guts into them
i wrote a play
it wasnt much
but tennessee williams
spillled his guts
he was blanche he was stella
and laura waiting for her fella
mrs venable and cathy
pulling himself apart like taffy
alexandra, mrs stone
lusting after gigalos
full of desire, maggie the cat
all his advances falling flat
he was spat upon like schmutz
but when he wrote
he spilled his guts
i wrote a play
it wasnt much
but tennessee Williams
spilled his guts
lyric- Bill White
music and performance- Mike Skliar
@timfatchen Mar 2022
I don't have the American Lit. background to appreciate all the references (we stopped studying US lit in about year 9--Mark Twain then--because suddenly anything US had become anathema) so I miss the nuances. Pity. iPhone recording Mike? Much more of this and I'll finally give in and buy one (resist! resist!)
@tjeff Mar 2022
Excellent vocal angst, love the emotion all the way through. Interesting topic and educational too. Superb rhyming through out that sounds completely natural. Love the sparse arrangement of acoustic gtr & drums. I enjoyed this one!
@elainedimasi Feb 2022
Wait, what? Mike Skliar tagging something "punk"?
This is a match made in heaven. Exactly the billwhite51 lyrics that mikeskliar should do. And you did!
Not to comment on demos during FAWM, but I would love to hear this with realer drums and the bass to go with them :-)
@natalie Feb 2022
Excellent! The lyrics deal with a very interesting topic. What a great idea for a song, and very well-developed. The arrangement and vocals have a really fun Dead Milkmen feel to it, which really suits the out-of-the-ordinary subject matter in a wonderfully satisfying way. So glad I listened to this!
@markg Feb 2022
This packs so much into 100 seconds.
Bill's liner notes explains and enhances the lyrics.
I've got a new appreciation.
@jerrypettit Feb 2022
iPhone recording? Sounds good! I listened to a phone recording last week and it sounded like a...phone recording. You've done a great job on this, though, balance-wise and all.
I always grin through reading @billwhite51 's lyrics--this was no exception.
Great collab, you guys!
@nancycunning Feb 2022
This is so much fun...How about an album of songs about plays and playwrights. This one and @themelgoexperience's song Long Day Long Night should about Arthur Miller's play should definitely be on it. I'll keep my ears open for others. Rock on.
@tunecat Feb 2022
I’m enjoying this immensely …
@chucknamaste Feb 2022
Hell yeah
@bachelorb Feb 2022
80's punk at its finest. Great lyrics and a fantastic interpretation of the lyrics.
@edwardsmusic Feb 2022
Energetic punk rock tune! I like the vocals, lyrics and drums.
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
I really like your interpretation of Bills lyrics, i think its the right pace to ram home the lines!
@mandolinda Feb 2022
Quick delivery, punk rock. Nice.
@kenficara Feb 2022
iPhone s—kicking — excellent! And the lyrics are wonderful — rhyming “guts” and “schmutz” is truly inspired.
@fuzzy Feb 2022
William Faulkner wrote a lot of gay characters in to his novels, too.
Sometimes pretty obviously.
Really catchy, both playing and lyrics.
Great choppy guitar work here.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Nice job both of you! Classic Skliar delivery, and I love the lyrics Bill.
@berni1954 Feb 2022
Semi-Acoustic Punk with intelligible lyrics? Now there's a genre I could have got into. As a lover of lyrics, I never got into punk because I could never understand the lyrics. Year after, on the internet I googled a few and thought "what a shame people could never have deciphered these incisive lyrics among the full throated shouting that characterised punk" :-)
I admired TW a lot. On my Dram course at Uni I directed a play of "Suddenly Last Summer" and I still quote huge chunks of it nearly 50 years later
@billwhite51 Feb 2022
i really enjoyed that, mike. and am glad you resisted the brando bit, i wrote much more about wiliams that i cut from the final draft because i wanted to ram home the title phrase and not heads with a bunch of other stuff, one such verse was about how brando misunderstood the character but williams was so aroused by his interpretation that he encouraged brando to follow his instincts. and every actor since plays brando's stanley, williams' stanley was lost.
@gilhari Feb 2022
I love about FAWM that these things can happen so rapidly and it is such a view into different ways of song-crafting. Well done!