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Post by jambeatnik on Jan 5, 2009 19:38:54 GMT -5
does anyone know the song shannon is singing in the beginning before he tells the dude to get out of the room. thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2009 8:56:10 GMT -5
Probably just another song idea.
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Post by Hoonaholic on Jan 7, 2009 14:39:22 GMT -5
does anyone know the song shannon is singing in the beginning before he tells the dude to get out of the room. thanks. Hes actucally playing Letters on the guitar. He really wrote the guitar part to Letters before he went to L.A. when he was in Styff Kitten and was called the "Jail Song" that he wrote about the Lafayette Police Dep. So my guess is before he got pissed off at Christopher and wrote Letters, He would just use it to like warm up ya know? and just kinda play with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2009 18:41:17 GMT -5
He was pissed of at CT?
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Post by Hoonaholic on Jan 7, 2009 21:18:52 GMT -5
lol yeah, the recording of Letters on Nico is from Christopher's answering machine, I talked to Christopher in Detroit at the Hall and he said Shannon was pissed off at him and he wrote that song and left it on his answering machine.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2009 8:47:24 GMT -5
I knew it was on his answering machine. I read the Nico linear and the quotes about the song:
Christopher: Shannon had a crazy habit of calling up and not really saying anything, but just singing little fragments of ideas or songs. And for some reason, I thought, what a cool song. It just sounded great coming out of the answering machine. So I recorded it onto DAT and kept it. I had it laying around for awhile.
Rogers: With Shannon, you'd find all sorts of gifts...everywhere. That was something he left on Christopher's answering machine. He was probably sleeping. That was the time Shannon would always call. One time in a restaurant in Japan, he put a pound of squid in my shoes. You'd get gifts from Shannon like that all the time. But I got him back. I pushed him over in a Portapotty, sloshed him all over... He snapped after that. (laughs)
... I just didnt know he was pissed off at CT. Thanks.
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Post by Hoonaholic on Jan 8, 2009 13:59:55 GMT -5
I knew it was on his answering machine. I read the Nico linear and the quotes about the song: Christopher: Shannon had a crazy habit of calling up and not really saying anything, but just singing little fragments of ideas or songs. And for some reason, I thought, what a cool song. It just sounded great coming out of the answering machine. So I recorded it onto DAT and kept it. I had it laying around for awhile. Rogers: With Shannon, you'd find all sorts of gifts...everywhere. That was something he left on Christopher's answering machine. He was probably sleeping. That was the time Shannon would always call. One time in a restaurant in Japan, he put a pound of squid in my shoes. You'd get gifts from Shannon like that all the time. But I got him back. I pushed him over in a Portapotty, sloshed him all over... He snapped after that. (laughs) ... I just didnt know he was pissed off at CT. Thanks. Chrisotpher was telling us what happend, but it was freaken cold in Detroit in March man lol. I can't remember everything he said. But he told us Letters Shannon wrote about him when he was really pissed off at him.
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Post by Barbara on Jan 8, 2009 14:36:34 GMT -5
Didn't Glen say in one of his posts that Letters was about John F. Kennedy? It's funny how we hear different info about the same thing from each member. You can see that in the book too. I guess their memories from that time are a bit blury
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Post by Hoonaholic on Jan 8, 2009 15:03:33 GMT -5
Didn't Glen say in one of his posts that Letters was about John F. Kennedy? It's funny how we hear different info about the same thing from each member. You can see that in the book too. I guess their memories from that time are a bit blury yeah for sure, but then again you really think about the way Shannon wrote and he writes about alot more then one thing in one song, so it could of been 20 different things in one song. Just genuis.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2009 0:59:32 GMT -5
Didn't Glen say in one of his posts that Letters was about John F. Kennedy? It's funny how we hear different info about the same thing from each member. You can see that in the book too. I guess their memories from that time are a bit blury yeah for sure, but then again you really think about the way Shannon wrote and he writes about alot more then one thing in one song, so it could of been 20 different things in one song. Just genuis. Well I know part of it was about George Bush..Right?
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Post by guitarbutt on Jan 9, 2009 11:07:30 GMT -5
I wish we could've heard Shannon on a Janis Joplin tribute album
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Post by Hoonaholic on Jan 9, 2009 12:13:40 GMT -5
yeah for sure, but then again you really think about the way Shannon wrote and he writes about alot more then one thing in one song, so it could of been 20 different things in one song. Just genuis. Well I know part of it was about George Bush..Right? thats what i thought untill i really listened to the end with Shannons red neck slang. and when i thought he was saying "someone with daddys blood Ran out next to Bush and it be him " its not that at all what he really is saying is "someone with daddys blood that im pushed into being" so i dont think it is, i always thought it was untill i listen to the Letter on the new acoustic CD.
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Post by eyeandmind on Jan 12, 2009 22:45:59 GMT -5
tnx...i did not know that. 2 meter sessions came from me...i found it at the institute for sound and vision where i work at in holland.....so fun to see how they ended up on youtube so fast...i put a translated version on there aswell.you have to have good eyes tough cause it turned out real small.
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Post by ladyjane on Jan 14, 2009 11:03:45 GMT -5
Watching that makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Shannon looks so young and happy there! The guys all look happy and relaxed,and it doesn't seem to matter what version of their song they do, they all sound awesome.This would be the 3rd version of "No Rain" I've now heard. Thanks for that eyeandmind. I could watch Shannon sing and smile all day long.
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Post by ~LoveJoy~ on Jan 14, 2009 21:45:09 GMT -5
#smiliecrazy# yay guitarbutt!!! i get to talk about shannon and janis again!!!! they are my two most favorite singers ever..i mean...ever!!! i started noticin the similarities in their tone, mannerisms, and just all together, im sayin what i want to say no matter what....i read a quote in a article where shannon called her brilliant or somethin like that!!!! letters from a porcupine sooooo reminds me of janis for some reason....this topic just really gets me excited ....im sure youve seen the you tube of shannon singin mercedez benz...well, i had both of those on my blog at one time and played them at the same time.....oh my!!!! youve gotta do that.....sorry, im a little obsessed with this. there will never be another janis and there will never be another shannon....shan and jan!!!!! #smiliecrazy# #smiliecrazy# #smiliecrazy#
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