Video Entertainment
Somewhere in the 1980s, while corresponding with people all around the planet via the Mail-Art Network, I worked on music (of sorts) with my then-partner Kate. She knew how to play guitar (and some violin), had been in the band The Maroons, and I never mastered anything but piano as a little kid which I had by then totally forgotten. That didn't stop me from banging and strumming and keyboarding on things - nor did it stop us from filling up cassette tapes with personal creations as well as some cover tunes. I aspired to be a song-lyric writer.
Now, some 40 years later I have been going through digital copies of some of the madness we created back then, and in few recent cases I made videos to go with them.
As our friends back then enjoyed (or at least silently suffered through) our creations — I now turn over these brief musical bonbons, wrapped in what I would call "sincere style" videos.
Animal philosophy.
O Possum (a song)
Anti-war classic.
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream - YouTube
Ed McCurdy: song writerKate Pietschman: guitars/vocalsAleXander Hirka: chimes/whistlesRecorded in 1986 at Shadowplay Studios, mobile unit, Barryville, New Yo…
More are in the works. Stay tuned. Be afraid.
But if you want words instead of songs and videos . . . my life/art partner, Tammy, has here some words about the greatest country in the world.
Pot, Meet Kettle. In case you missed the memo, you’re… | by Remington Write | Oct, 2022 | Medium
In case you missed the memo, you’re both black
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