There was a battle-of-the-bands type contest going on between a rock band of Metallica-grade self-importance, and us (me and Kevin S and maybe Ray).
The Metallickesque band had just made an earnest, rocky song, and it was our turn to create a song to challenge it. We ended up copping the song structure from their song and changing it into an inane lounge song.
Kevin S wrote the words, and as we played the song for the other band, in like a backstage hangout room, written lyrics magically unfurled on one side of my field of vision, as though it were on TV.
The other band was dumbfounded as we played. I worked out some kind of chord/bass progression on the left (chordy) side of an accordion (though the sound coming out sounded like a perc/rotary organ).
It was in B flat. The words were kind of like:
1
Prose.
x . . . . . . .
3b 3b 3b 2 1
Rock music history,
Who-knows.
x . . . . . . .
It's such a mystery.
Bears.
[Something about bears..]
Bears.
[etc.]
Of course I probably did some random post-awakening edits while trying to piece it back together, but it was to that effect.
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Blew their minds with a song about bears
Location:
Prince William County, Virginia, USA
Labels:
accordion,
bear,
competition,
fictional music,
Kevin S,
Metallica,
music (playing),
music notation,
nonsense words,
organ,
plagiarism,
Ray N,
silly,
TV
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