From The First 21 by Nikki Sixx
“Early on [with Motley Crue] I would insist on rehearsing whole sets, playing backward from the encore, then forward again, building our intros, breaking every song down, remaking it, breaking it back down one more time. It was relentless.”
Randy Sez:
Thank you to the writers I read just before I begin my day
They inspire me, but don’t hold them responsible.
My writing is like my wrestling
Informed by Japanese and Mexican stylists
With plenty of Freddie Blassie
And The Fabulous Moolah mixed in.
But all my own doing.
Randy Sez more:
I write using a secret formula.
A messy desk has many dimensions.
References and Source Material a go go.
A random list of random things at hand:
Writers’ Thesaurus
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Dr. Bronner packaging
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
I Will Pass Even to Acheron, by Amanda Newell, 2021
A monograph of artworks by Chaim Soutine
The King James Version of the Holy Bible
A couple of books on NW Coast Native art.
Randy Sez More Plus:
And not always, but often I’m listening to music as I write
or read. Sometimes I listen just to listen:
Vivian Fung, Phillip Glass, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Roy Hargrove,
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: There Are Strange Things Happening
Every Day
Koko Taylor: Whang Dang Doodle
Memphis Minnie
Luther Johnson (Snakeboy?)
Little Willie Little Willie John -
Wikipedia
Symphony #2 by Johannes Brahms
Les McCann, Live at the Village Vanguard, 1967
Her "Fachwerk for bayan, percussion and
string orchestra" is great.
© 2022 Randy Stark
Please visit my website at www.randystark.com.
My books are available on Amazon.
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Randy Sez stop. Randy Sez Go. Randy Sez Sit Down. I do like what Randy Sez.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It amazed me to learn of the rehearsal rigors of Motley Crue. Not at all just thrown together or haphazard. It's inspiring.
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