Thanks to all...
A few notes... Amazed... Apparantly, Amadou wa dead before he hit the gound, from the first shot, and 40 of the 41 shots that hit him were fired into his body as he lay unmoving on in his hallway. I have read often, that even in battle the first impression on being shot is surprise, even before fear of death. In Amadou's case death followed so suddunly, the first shot when right through his heart, my impression is that he was called - not by name, he turned to see guns pointing at him, and in the same instant, as he may or may not have with drawn his wallet to show that he was not the person sought, or to provide identification as is often done in other countries, to his amazement, no other warnings where given but suddunly all was light and noise, no pain, just instant shock. Beradette Devlin McCalisky told us that there is no pain in being shot the shock is so instant and intence.
Amazement, as any other though takes some reflection.
Sing Out? Nope, but our brother Keven McGrath has kindly put it in one of his pub song broadside pamplets. Anyone with a contact at Sing Out, be my guest to introduce me. I went to school in the old days, at a little red school - Downtoen Community School, with Nini Mendendez, who's father was the publisher of Sing Out at the time. I would be deeply honnored.
As to band troubles, I don't know, the answer offered by a band member this morning, to the delema of our guitarst blowing off the next recording session, now as YEARS pass since I wrote Amadou, is to record some of her tunes on that day. What can you do? This is the same member who said, "in thirty years of playing music I have not gotten the responce you have to your songs..." I despair, and am desparate, and if you haven't been there, you can't comprehend the pain... I write from the heart, to people with heart, and am surrounded by heartless musicians. I have to single out one band member in this, Gina, who sings and plays the flute, but without the core of the band cooperating, we are dead in the water and there is water coming over the gunnel.
Cheers! (he said with a note of irony!)
Larry