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Funeral Songs

Postby Loki » 12 Sep 2017, 05:21

Before I sputter out

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Dr Markus » 12 Sep 2017, 12:18

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby clive gash » 12 Sep 2017, 12:20

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby pcqgod » 12 Sep 2017, 15:04



Not sure if this was intended to be about a departed loved one, but it works:

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Spock! » 12 Sep 2017, 20:51

I'm thinking of being interred/crisped following


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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Muskrat » 12 Sep 2017, 21:17

My choice from the moment I first heard it. Why isn't this a standard? (Because nobody could top her version?)

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Snarfyguy » 12 Sep 2017, 21:50

pcqgod wrote:Not sure if this was intended to be about a departed loved one, but it works:


If I recall correctly, it was inspired by Pete Quaife's departure from the band.
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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Charlie O. » 12 Sep 2017, 22:01

Snarfyguy wrote:If I recall correctly, it was inspired by Pete Quaife's departure from the band.

You're thinking of a story Ray told many times about Quaife scrawling "DAZE" on the tape box, at the recording session - then leaving the band shortly after.

Elsewhere, Ray said the song was about a woman who had helped him through a bad patch, but he was always pretty vague about it (maybe because he was married at the time?).
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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Snarfyguy » 13 Sep 2017, 03:25

Charlie O. wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:If I recall correctly, it was inspired by Pete Quaife's departure from the band.

You're thinking of a story Ray told many times about Quaife scrawling "DAZE" on the tape box, at the recording session - then leaving the band shortly after.

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby The Slider » 13 Sep 2017, 08:08

Were I presumptuous enough to programme my own funeral, I would like this to be my parting message to my inconsolable fans.

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby quix » 13 Sep 2017, 20:29

One of my closet friends chose this for her husbsnd's funeral. He died young in an accident at work. It was the most beautiful choice I think...


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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby quix » 13 Sep 2017, 20:33

I'd be happy for this to be played at my funeral. Not that I'm ever going to die.


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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby quix » 13 Sep 2017, 20:36

This is probably too sad to play at a funeral...


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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Muskrat » 13 Sep 2017, 20:44

Things that a fella can't forget...

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby ChrisB » 13 Sep 2017, 23:23

Surfs up

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby nathan » 14 Sep 2017, 19:36



AND DEFINITELY THIS:



I want everyone leaving my funeral with the words 'fiesta forever' floating through their minds. It's all I want.

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Bent Fabric » 14 Sep 2017, 19:56

Where else could I possibly tell this story?

About a week or so ago, I received an email from an old friend - wonderful guy, just...we haven't had any real occasion to correspond in ages. Anyhow, he reaches out to me and a couple of other people saying that an old friend of HIS called to say that her brother was/is dying and that she'd like live music at the funeral.

Now, there's no way on Earth I was going to say no. I even called a couple of my "these are the people you want to make good music with on short notice" folks.

Now, we're all getting started on our collective and individual prep, and - you know, none of us has anything remotely resembling an empty calendar. The issue of preparing one's self for a "gig" that may very well end up falling on some date of some non-negotiable commitment or unavailability (I mean, for any of us). Those odds are what they are, and it adds a certain high risk element to the whole thing. In theory, he could go tomorrow, or we could be periodically rehearsing this act for a year or more. Naturally, you end up with a fairly major roster of "ringers" in the event that one or more of you needs to be replaced/subbed out because of when the date actually falls.

And naturally, all of the musical humor that occurs during the standard rehearsal/arrangement/performance cycle - suddenly, this is 100% off limits (you can't very well work "Taps" into a solo in a moment of shared grief and loss).

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Joe Baxter » 18 Sep 2017, 11:33

Earl Gray and Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, and the Hellecasters' versions of Sweet Dreams, and Passion. I'd have For The Love Of God, but it's a bit too long.
Many years ago, the owner of a pub in which I gigged regularly, died suddenly. His widow asked my pal's wife to sing at the funeral, which she did, we then repaired to the pub for tea and sandwiches. The funeral was on a Friday, and I had been scheduled to gig there that night, that afternoon, the widow asked me to come and do the gig anyway. It was a pretty weird gig.

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Re: Funeral Songs

Postby Darkness_Fish » 18 Sep 2017, 13:31

Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.


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