I walk the line to find
To see ahead I look behind
And it’s all right
Sometimes I climb Escher stairs
Never leading anywhere
But it’s all right
From fractal to the galaxy
A revolution spiraling
And it’s all right
Sooner or later
Your luck will betray you
But tables will turn
And you’ll learn the behavior
And it’s all right
Got your tail in your mouth
And so it goes round and round
It’s the rule of the ring
It’s the kiss of the uroboros
It’s the secret clocks tell time
One turns and the other flies
And it’s all right
Another wheel inside a wheel
Inside another you can’t feel
And it’s all right
What is lost will be found
As the serpent coils round and round
Now the future’s the past
In the grasp of the uroboros
Round and round again
Where the end begins
Back where the beginning arrives
Season cycle spins
And the winter wind
Turns to summer’s sigh
Familiar stranger in
Some eternal return
Heads and tails flip
As fortunes turn
Got your tail in your mouth
And so it goes round and round
And It’s the rule of the ring
It’s the kiss of the uroboros
Now the future’s the past
In the grasp of the uroboros
By the way, the soup tonight is cream of broccoli. Five plays on the jukebox for a dollar.
Me and these hoons go waay back. Met Parsons at a bar in Amsterdam when I was trippin my nuts off. We spoke only briefly because I was mostly out of it. Met Shaw in a hair cutting joint in Redondo (DuBonet’s?) and we had a conversation mostly about guitars. Just watched a Styx concert on DVD last night. One of my top 10 fav bands. I wouldn’t want to be like you.
Alan Parson Project, is often in Reno, outstanding show. Most don’t understand the bands always changing, hence the “ Project” not Band in the introduction. Psycho babbles one of my fav.
“ Tell You About a Dream That I Have Every Night”.
I had never heard of Tommy Shaw, and though I have heard of STYX I know no songs of theirs. As for Alan Parsons, I have all of their music, mostly on vinyl. “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” is in regular rotation at my castle, as is “I, Robot” and “Turn of a Friendly Card”.
When “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” was released (1976), I was working at Everybody’s Records in Portland. We could not keep it in stock as it sold out as soon as we got it in. We would get in 1000 pressings and they would be gone in a day.
Jahaziel MaqqebetAugust 24, 2022, 5:16 AM
ugh.
Hard pass.
Rob MuirAugust 24, 2022, 5:42 AM
When I was buying vinyl in the 70s and 80s, I not only had all of the Project albums, I had every album that Alan Parsons engineered or produced. That includes Ambrosia, Pilot, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, etc. I studied the man’s work through that music. IMO he is a genius at recording and producing music. My friends and I used to argue about how he got some of the sounds on the Tales of Mystery and Imagination album. We also used to compare his work to Ken Scott’s. We were recording studio nerds.
Now these many years later I have the book and DVDs for his Art and Science of Sound Recording. He tells a few secrets, but not as many as I was hoping for. If I have a hobby, it’s studying his mind.
As for Shaw, I saw Styx twice in 73 and 74 before he joined them. I much prefer the albums that he played on as well as his later work in Damn Yankees.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
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Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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Me and these hoons go waay back. Met Parsons at a bar in Amsterdam when I was trippin my nuts off. We spoke only briefly because I was mostly out of it. Met Shaw in a hair cutting joint in Redondo (DuBonet’s?) and we had a conversation mostly about guitars. Just watched a Styx concert on DVD last night. One of my top 10 fav bands. I wouldn’t want to be like you.
Alan Parson Project, is often in Reno, outstanding show. Most don’t understand the bands always changing, hence the “ Project” not Band in the introduction. Psycho babbles one of my fav.
“ Tell You About a Dream That I Have Every Night”.
” Don’t say words you’re gonna regret…”
We CAN be friends.
I had never heard of Tommy Shaw, and though I have heard of STYX I know no songs of theirs. As for Alan Parsons, I have all of their music, mostly on vinyl. “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” is in regular rotation at my castle, as is “I, Robot” and “Turn of a Friendly Card”.
When “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” was released (1976), I was working at Everybody’s Records in Portland. We could not keep it in stock as it sold out as soon as we got it in. We would get in 1000 pressings and they would be gone in a day.
ugh.
Hard pass.
When I was buying vinyl in the 70s and 80s, I not only had all of the Project albums, I had every album that Alan Parsons engineered or produced. That includes Ambrosia, Pilot, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, etc. I studied the man’s work through that music. IMO he is a genius at recording and producing music. My friends and I used to argue about how he got some of the sounds on the Tales of Mystery and Imagination album. We also used to compare his work to Ken Scott’s. We were recording studio nerds.
Now these many years later I have the book and DVDs for his Art and Science of Sound Recording. He tells a few secrets, but not as many as I was hoping for. If I have a hobby, it’s studying his mind.
As for Shaw, I saw Styx twice in 73 and 74 before he joined them. I much prefer the albums that he played on as well as his later work in Damn Yankees.