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Thread #134331   Message #3055788
Posted By: Bobert
17-Dec-10 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: Remembering Long Songs for Performance
Subject: RE: Remembering Long Songs for Performance
There is a reason I don't do long songs... It's called short memory...

Back in the mid 90's I wrote a longish song about a train tunnel that collapsed on a train in Richmond, Va. which was never dug out... The more I learned about the story the longer the the song got... The first write had it at 40 verses which was way too long so I worked on it until I got it down to 32 verses...

Problem is that I never could remember them all in spite of having written them... But I wanted to record the song and eventually did but had to use major cheat-sheets to record it... It came out fine but that was the last time I did the song, too...

B~