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Rock On

from Blaque Monday by Steve BLaque

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It's a David Essex track from back in the 1970's. I began playing this piece in 2014 mainly because it was from a period of music known as Glam Rock and this one song that I really dug as a kid. Perhaps with nothing but death all around me this song reaffirmed the notion that everyone has been a dinosaur. Less than 15 years after Rock n' Roll had begun people were talking of it as an ancient past. Maybe this was the curiosity I felt about the song. "why would people be writing about the death of an institution that had really only happened a day before''.

On this track I can tell you I wrestled for weeks about how to divide the song up since it was never recorded with a metronome. None of the songs were. They were sculptures in real time with the trouble being that real time doesn't always correlate to 'best use of time' when we talk in musical terms. In other words the timing was wells fucked up. Anyways I know full well that one of my buddies over here in Beijing got to hear me endlessly talking about how I was gonna split the song like Moses and the sea, but instead of inserting dead Roman legions or whoever died at that time I was gonna do this I'm Steve Blaque and I can play my guitar shit. So that's what you hear on this track. How it all came about is a story in and of itself (I wrote that coz I like to write cliches) and so if you wanna know then hit me and ask for the details.

lyrics

These are the lyrics I went with

"Rock On"

Ooh

Hey, kid, rock 'n' roll, rock on
Ooh, my soul
Hey kid, boogie, too, did ya?
Hey, shout, summertime blues
Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes
Hey, kid, rock 'n' roll, rock on

And where do we go from here?
Which is a way that's clear?
Still looking for that blue jean baby queen
Prettiest girl I've ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
(James Dean)

And where do we go from here?
Which is the way that's clear?
Still looking for that blue jean baby queen
Prettiest girl I ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean

Rock on
Rock on
Rock on

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from Blaque Monday, released December 26, 2015
two local to Beijing guys get my respect since Steve Cahn listened intently...(well it seemed he did) to my thoughts on this song and how to turn a song into two seemingly different parts even though they were effectively the same....repetition is not a stranger to music but the notion of having a whole chunk of music being repeated is another matter altogether....he listened as I went on and on about this ''missing middle bit'' that was needed to make the whole thing work...finally to Hugh Reed for his composing a quite wonderful quote from Frank Sinatra and then recording it here at Forbidden City Studio. It was an aphrodisiac!.....

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Steve Blaque singer, songwriter, Producer and engineer and owner of Darktrunk Recording (formerly Forbidden City Studio Beijing) also performs in an unplugged environment with his favorite flavors of Indie and Grunge. Blaque has always said ''you don't need distortion to be grunge and you don't need twang to be Indie''. ... more

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