" Another Hard Year in Taos "
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Notes on the Song
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"Good Day LA (1992)" The main song-- 3 verses, 3 choruses, and the bridge-- was written in 1991, before the Rodney King incident. The images of earthquake, drought, fires, water rationing, pedestrian-on-freeway deaths, daily gang murders, and housing crises, were routine in the media of the early nineties-- the cumulative woes of LA were then the stuff of late night comedy and Rockford File TV movies. The conjunction of these furies with post-apocalyptic roller blading at the beach, was an image inspired by the 1991 film, "Prayer of The Roller Boys" which I loved. The coda, about the King riots in 1992, after the police officers were acquitted, was written in Taos several years later. I decided to do the coda as a sort of rap, just 'cuz, and it earned me the nickname "Heavy D" from "Mullah" Omar, the engineer. |
" Another Hard Year in Taos "
Good Day LA Two Hearts Hard Times Angelina The Champion Interlude al Presto
Sometimes It's Right The Sheriff Of Nottingham A New Father's Song
Waitress At The Donut Shop Coyote and Magpie
Another Hard Year in Taos
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