UnfinishedBusinesswithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode1EugeneWesley
Hello and welcome to episode 1 of "Unfinished Business with the implausible schmendrick", the implausible schmendrik being a music project type thing that I'm working on mostly on my own but with occasional help from some other folks when I can rope them in.
The aim of this podcast is to have a place where I and maybe in the future some other participators can share unfinished songs, playing them nice and raw and live and simple. I'm specifically doing this myself because I'm finding that I write an awful lot of songs, and they just sit in line waiting for me to add beats and other sounds and things and finding the time and space to do this is not always easy, so I'd like to send them out there in this way just to get them out to people at all, because I'm impatient I guess, and also I'll tell you about where the songs come from and what they mean as best I can before playing them because I really love hearing other song writers do this, I think it adds to the appreciation of music in a big way so I'm giving it a go.
So, for this first episode, I'll be playing you a song called Eugene Wesley, then I'll play you a fleshed out version so you can see what I mean when I say "Unfinished". Eugene Wesley is about Gene Rodenberry, or Eugene Wesley Rodenberry, it's sort of a bleak little song about how death makes dust out of heros, Gene Rodenberry being the creator or Star Trek and I imagine a hero to a fair ammount of people, it's about how time obscures fame and a whole life can be attached to one acheivement when really there was an entire person going on around that.
Lucille Ball gets a mention because she gave Star Trek the go ahead back in the day, being the head of the TV station that first aired it, and there's also mention of Rodenberry's other lesser known careers as a police officer and a pilot and the fact that these expriences were never shared with the public in a creative kind of way, he wrote some cop shows but they've been overshadowed by Kirk and Spock.
Another way I was looking at this when I wrote it was how would a huge Rodenberry fan react if they'd been living in a bubble somehow for the last few decades and only now just found out that he was dead?
That's about all there is to it really, and whatever else you're own mind put in there, so here we go:
The fleshed out version included here features the vocal talents of one Stacey Kendal who kindly did some singing for me, and who you may hear again at some point if this podcast is you're kind of thing.
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