If yall remember last year’s comic The Road Well Travelled, I’m pleased to say this is a follow-up! This is the first time I’m opening up about my quarter-life crisis. It was dark and terrible time, but I’m glad that I’ve found healing in 2018. Looking forward to 2019!! And wishing positive vibes for anyone in a similar boat who needs a bit of hope.
So? A lot of performers do it. Bruce Springsteen uses one. Tom Petty did. Paul McCartney does. As does Elton John. All of ‘em use teleprompters. It’s called being prepared.
Here’s Aerosmith using one.
It’s not that they didn’t take time to learn the lyrics. Sometimes you can’t remember them all, especially when you have a large catalogue of music like some of those I mentioned.
I once watched Billy Joel live and he flubbed a lyric near the start of a song. He stopped, laughed it off, and restarted the song laying emphasis on the lyric he messed up.
Memorizing lyrics for a song you’ve written and need to perform in front of people and keep separate from other lyrics you’ve written is the sort of difficult thing that seems pretty simple right up until you actually try to do it.
I wish I knew what exactly it’s from, but there’s a recording of Tori Amos live where the line she’s trying to sing is
Here it is, folks! The LONG GONE GULCH Official Trailer!
This ain’t your typical Western…
Long Gone Gulch is a comedic fantasy about two young sheriffs who must serve and protect a secluded mythical world, home to many legendary creatures of folklore. Follow weirdo cowgirl, Rawhide (the only human born in the Gulch) and sarcastic greaser, Snag (the only human outsider) as they become the law of the land. Their unlikely friendship causes them to learn from each other as they deal with a variety of problems within a town of folks who aren’t exactly on their side. Among them are Mayor Rhubarb, the strict yet neurotic jackalope, BW, the mysterious bounty hunter who is not what she seems and Mako, the dastardly shark mutant and his gang of bandits.
