Silver Machine - William Shatner

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 14 Sep 2012, at 09:25 , Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>> On 06 Jun 2012, at 11:27 , Patrick Charles wrote:
>>> Rutger Hauer doing the Siege & Investiture...
>> Woah! :)
> 
> 	Amen!
> 
>> For, like, 15 years I've been musing over a song inspired by Hauer's "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe ... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate" from the "Tears in Rain" solioquy at the end of Blade Runner.  I think Jon Jarrett and I were kicking the idea around at some point; I more or less remember the riffs around which something was going to be built.  I was going to steal some ideas from Lemmy's "The Watcher" and "Make 'Em Blind" (e.g. "We come in blazing rockets/We bring you greed and slavery/No alien utopia/Will long survive our bravery"). Anyway, I always wanted to know how those attack ships ended up on fire off the shoulder of Orion, and it seemed like whatever that story was would be worth a song.. :)
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> 	We were, indeed, kicking the idea round; I more or less remember the verse riff you were toying with and still have the lyrics I wrote on the home machine, though as I recall them, sadly, they don't quite match your stated aims above ;-)

Well, we could always revisit the lyrics -- could make it an Espada Negra song ....

Speaking of which ....

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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