For once I want to silence the messenger.
Point click undo and rewind.
Breath taken back.
Home base
safe.
Ideas flowing
like second chances.
Everything is once again easier
and freedom’s path stretches horizon-filled before me
wielding words between seeking seas
on moon predicated tides.
No worries.
Soothed.
But reality
is interrupting insistent
ignoring my do not disturb.
A circle of peace breached by gathered storm
concealing destruction on virtual paper
making it difficult to believe.
Eyes I close.
Shattered.
Soul now shaken.
Inaudible murmurs expected side effects
stemming a catastrophic sudden and uncontrolled arterial bleed.
Risking limbs to save torso.
Heart to beat
one more
story
sorrow sacred
for the Teller of Tales.
Thank you for taking the time to read my poem.
It is in dedication of my dear friend, sounding board, writing buddy, and confidante Tom Bradbury. Although I will miss him more than words can say, I believe that he is now in a place where he can happily tell stories all the time near family, the four-legged friends he's been needing, and some very special sheep that will never leave his side.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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