{"id":1124,"date":"2018-04-14T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:23:15","slug":"cut-ups-and-arps-the-road-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Crucifixion Street (For Jamestown, NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All music: Michael W. Dean
\nLyrics: Phil Wormuth, Michael W. Dean
\nRecorded at Intergalactic Prairie Studio, 2018. <\/p>\n

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Lyrics:<\/p>\n

Crucifixion Street
\nDynamite sale, 10 cents a stick!
\nToo many Molotov Cocktails can make you sick
\nDark days, dead friends – memories condemned
\nRoaming bands of madmen
\nDrunken skeletons selling souvenirs
\nDancing demons in the street – the slow death of time<\/p>\n

A bar on every corner, a church to match
\nin the streets, the spirits clash
\nPickets, scabs – missing fingers, missing hands
\nShells of factories, shells of the men that worked \u2018em<\/p>\n

Tender young angels, no strangers to the pain
\nThe stench of spilled-gut stains
\nStale butts and lipstick
\nThe freshness of a guilty conscience<\/p>\n

Big-belted, barrel-bodied, thin-lipped Mick
\nCursin\u2019 his mom for ever havin\u2019 \u2018em
\nShufflin\u2019 thru the trash with the roaches and rats
\nLookin\u2019 for a dish to pass<\/p>\n

He\u2019s all soaked, an impish ass
\nShe\u2019s a lush tryin\u2019 to fix herself up with a glass
\nThe stripper, face-down on the bar, gets bigger tips
\nThe preacher, drunk in his pulpit, goin\u2019 out with a snake
\nEatin\u2019 off the collection plate<\/p>\n

The lice at sunrise, a hiccup in the dirt
\nHis halo\u2019s bent
\nThe crazed ol\u2019 gent
\nHis wife, she prays the misery\u2019s worth it
\nWhile pigeons sit in judgment<\/p>\n

The sign outside reads: \u201cBIG ACE\u2019S PLACE,
\nPOKER SPOKEN HERE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthem were a pretty good band for classic rock.
\nLater Tony was our drummer,
\nBut where is he now?<\/p>\n

Alpha-Centauri tonight<\/p>\n

We looked under every rock
\nAnd roll<\/p>\n

Tony brother, you out there?
\nOr did you finally get called up to Heaven?<\/p>\n

Cash Newmann got a 7-dollar tattoo at Marty’s Archery
\nIn the back room.
\nStill has it 35 years later.
\nBlurry little music note.<\/p>\n

Girl left him for a biker
\nWho threatened him at the Rusty Nail
\nWhere he saw the trail of blood in the snow<\/p>\n

She later left the biker for a cop and
\nMoved to Toledo for the good life<\/p>\n

Cash came back later on tour
\nAnd rocked the Rusty Nail.
\nBest thing that ever happened there.<\/p>\n

Now the place is shuttered
\nGood end to bad vibes
\nBut those vibes are ghosts
\nYou cannot kill
\nThey just move up the street<\/p>\n

Crucifixion Street
\nCrucifixion Street
\nCrucifixion Street<\/p>\n

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INFO:<\/p>\n

This is the second release of this song, this one much better. Is called “Crucifixion Street (For Jamestown, NY), The Cash Newmann Remix.”<\/p>\n

Wanted to call it “Michael Dean” remix, but there are 3 remixing artists already, 1 is Michael Dean, 1 is MWD, 1 is Mike Dean<\/a> (the famous one), so didn’t want confusing on iTunes etc, so used my alter ego “Cash Newmann.” Sounds like a rapper anyway.<\/p>\n

I never loved the old mix of this on the record \u201cBrace Yourself for a Blast.\u201d Couldn\u2019t quite master it right, and was too quiet <\/span>on the record. Is the only song I felt that way about in four records.<\/p>\n

So I killed two birds with one stone: remixed this (with some additional sounds, some sax and synth). Then mastered on LANDR<\/a>. The uploaded to DistroKid<\/a> to try them out to review and write a tutorial for my upcoming second edition of the $30 Music School<\/em> book. I like them. And I also\u00a0 like this new version much more. Kinda sounds like we\u2019re actually playing it live at the Rusty Nail.<\/p>\n

Fun note about the place where I say \u201cAlpha-Centauri tonight\u201d in a froggy voice. That was an accident. I opened this project from an archive on my E drive. It attached to the wrong file with the right name. Something like audio-3.wav. On the old version was me saying \u201cor did you finally get called up to heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n

On this version, it grabbed some audio from the BipTunia song \u201cOn Approach to Alpha-Centauri\u201d and substituted it. I added some echo and left it in. It not only worked musically, it worked thematically. And that\u2019s also the one line I ever wrote that Phil didn\u2019t love, because he was thinking Tony Yanik might be insulted. I said \u201cIt\u2019s art, let\u2019s go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I guess the universe decided to re-write the line in the remix.<\/p>\n

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LISTEN: Download HERE. All music: Michael W. Dean Lyrics: Phil Wormuth, Michael W. Dean Recorded at Intergalactic Prairie Studio, 2018. Lyrics: Crucifixion Street Dynamite sale, 10 cents a stick! Too many Molotov Cocktails can make you sick Dark days, dead friends – memories condemned Roaming bands of madmen Drunken skeletons selling souvenirs Dancing demons in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}