TRIPLE R 'Shaken Not Rehearsed'
This page archives my Saturday morning on-the-spot song writing efforts on Tim Thorpe’s Vital Bits program, 3RRR 102.7 FM Victoria Australia.
Assuming I arrive on time, listeners call in 7.45am with a song idea. I hole myself up in Studio B, pray to the song gods, align my chakras with a complex ritual involving caffeine and.. more caffeine.. and receive whatever chaff they throw me.
Sometime just before 9am I play the fresh born song live to air, coughing, spluttering, covered in vernix but usually alive..
This page is dedicated to Tim Thorpe for endurance and stickability par excellence and to all the drunken sailors who have sacrificed quality sleep time to contribute their song ideas so earl-y in the morning.
Amen.
A caller from St. Vincent Hospital called up with a need to hear Leonard Cohen.
Hallelujah
Here I am, prisoner of my early morning yearning
Thirsting now for the sound of your voice
Allelu
Help me now from this shroud, from revealing disgrace
Help me howl for the ones I left behind, help me
Know that I’ll find them there –
Alle-lu-jah
Hush baby now quiet the man
Quiet the years within me
Hold out your hand and I will fly, like a
Child into your arms,
Alle -lujah
Alle-lujah
Here I am
Posted 14 February 2012 ... comment
In this episode Maria from Elwood called in and talked about a social experiment she did when walking on the beach.She smiled at strangers to see how they would react.
Smile
When I look at you
Baby don’t be blue
Gonna hit you up
Yeah with all I got
Baby it’s all right
If I give you a smile
What you gonna do?
Oh oh oh oh oh (x4)
It’s just a moment in time
And it’s yours and it’s mine
What you gonna do
When I smile at you
Does it pick you up?
Such a terrible shock
What you gonna do-oooo?
Oh oh oh oh oh (x4)
Posted 14 February 2012 ... comment
Ned Kelly’s well know quote,’Such is Life’ became the hook for the track after Milky Milo and James called up talking about their lack of sleep.
Such Is Life
Posted 3 February 2012 ... comment
This week Sylvester called in and mentioned that he has been renovating so he has been unable to use the kitchen. This resulted in a debacle which included his Morris Minor, a pizza oven and foam balls flying throughout a shopping centre. Catherine also called in. She asked for a song for her partner of 26 years, Phil, whose 50th was coming up. Friend of a Friend is a marriage of these two tales.
Friend of a Friend
It all started at the local pub
Friend of a friend, the Collingwood Club
He had a voice that shook the wall
and they shook it on down to Smith st
Phil was working out Bundoora way
Cath would visit him and they’d while the hours away
Hours into days, years to remember
At a party in September
Just a friend
Come on honey help me take this bend
Devoted to the rivers end
Friend of a friend
Morris minor, did it’s best
Didn’t have much, but they had reels by request
Comes a son, daughter too
And they shook it down to Patton Hill
How many dinners, how many tears
Same black pot after all these years
A hundred kisses for a hundred fears
And we’ll shake it on down the river
Posted 31 January 2012 ... comment
This week Michael called in and offered a really enigmatic verse:
We carve a road on the river
You can’t say we never tried
And if the boat is drifting
It’s just the evening tide
The thing that Michaels verse brought up for me was being in a relationship forever and trying to navigate the ever more complex and tricky paths.
Evening Tide
Forty long years in the desert
Wandering broke around you
Now you say you regret it
It’s all I ever wanted to do
When I met you we had boards and nails
Tough times from the start
We said we’d sail away
Build a heathen ark, for our love
We carve a road on the river
You can’t say we never tried
And if the boat is drifting
It’s just the evening tide
Posted 31 January 2012 ... comment
